Proof of concept. Any organization, whether it's sporting or not, needs to display a proof of concept when it undergoes fundamental change. Atlético Ottawa gave us glimpses of that in the final 30 minutes of their opening match, and, in their second, showed a full 90 minutes of
Miserable. Perhaps that’s a bit of an understatement to describe the cold and wet conditions that accompanied the opening of the 2025 CPL season in Ottawa. Equally, it describes the feeling of Atlético Ottawa supporters through the first 55 minutes of the match. The team came out flat, disjointed,
You ride for six hours each way in the back of the bus, only to be provided with disappointment after disappointment. This is the life of a football fan. It's not even the performance in this case (which it was the last four times I've been
It was typical Atlético Ottawa, until it wasn’t. Every single trend that has fed into the story of Atlético Ottawa’s 2024 campaign was on display on Sunday afternoon: Ineffective at breaking down a low block through the first-half? Check. Janky set-piece goal direct from a corner? Check. A
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I’m pretty sure I’ve led off at least one of these pieces in the exact same way at some point this season, but that only further serves my point. A week after a midfield performance that completely overwhelmed
It’s only been six weeks since the last time I was genuinely excited to write this column, and yet it has felt like an eternity. Atlético Ottawa’s 2-0 win over Forge felt like the team’s most complete performance since their 3-0 win away to Vancouver in July,
If you’ve been following my writing this season, you’ll know that I’ve been vocal about my struggles to find new ways to praise the play of Amer Didic. And yet, here I am, telling you why the man with the magic hat should add a Golden Scarf
I sit here, writing this at halftime, because trying to evaluate 65 minutes of a game down to ten men is an entirely fruitless venture. It's not as if there was much of anything to speak about for the first 25 anyway. Just more of the same moribund
Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity was? Insanity is doing the exact… same… thing over and over again and expecting things to change. #19 Rubén Del Campo (6): It was not a banner day for Rubén by any means. He was left out to dry for
Unbeaten in six, and I am sick to my stomach. Three of the last five games have seen this team turn leads into draws, this time now at home in front of the largest crowd of the season. All of the same issues continue to pop up, and as such
I didn’t think it was possible to feel this much malaise about your football team when they’ve gone five games unbeaten. Yet, losing out on multiple leads in this game certainly doesn’t inspire confidence even if this result in a vacuum wasn’t all that bad. Certain
For what may be the first time in recorded history, Ben Hoskins did us a favour. The 77th minute penalty that was converted by Rubén Del Campo was dubiously earned to say the least, as the ball struck the arm of Dante Campbell despite it being in a wholly natural
If you didn’t get some flashbacks to 2022 from that performance, I’d question how closely you’ve followed this team. The 1-0 scoreline flattered Vancouver, both in that they really did not look like they had the wherewithal to break through the ATO back five, and in that
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them. This is the attitude we need to have when watching this Atlético Ottawa team for the remainder of the season. The three goals against Pacific were, frankly, a mirage to mask this team’s inability, and perhaps unwillingness, to exist with
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The starting XI that Carlos González put forward on Saturday night was a forceful message to his team, and they received it loud and clear. For the first time in over a month, Atlético Ottawa looked cohesive in every aspect of the game. For the third time in their last
For the second time in three weeks I come to you with these player Ratings from the back of a bus headed down the 401 back to TD Place. This one will (mostly) not be as manic as my previous effort, but it will certainly have the same critical edge