SDFC opens strong, but fades, settling for draw ahead of final match at home

Atlanta United played San Diego FC to a - draw on Saturday in their first-ever matchup Miguel Almir n powered the ball past CJ dos Santos on a penalty kick in the st minute dos Santos had been whistled for a foul on Jamal Thiar during a breakaway and Jayden Hibbert made a nice save of Chucky Lozano s header in stoppage time to keep SDFC from winning San Diego - - which leads the Western Conference moved into a tie with the LAFC group for the MLS expansion record of points SDFC remains in second place in the Supporters Shield race behind the Philadelphia Union with points Chucky Lozano had a chance to pull out a win for SDFC Saturday in Atlanta but the club fell short Photo courtesy of San Diego FC San Diego is also tied with St Louis for the greater part wins in a debut season at set in Atlanta - - already has been eliminated from playoff contention but has only one loss in its last four games Anders Dreyer opened the scoring in the nd with his th goal this season for SDFC He has goal contributions this season Lozano stole it deep in Atlanta territory and fed it across the goal for a wide-open Dreyer A triumph would have made San Diego the first crew in MLS history to win eight consecutive road matches Four other teams have won seven straight away from home with Cincinnati the last to do so in Feels like two points dropped because I think we started pretty decent good first half not excellent but good And then the second half we weren t good head coach Mikey Varas noted bluntly We didn t have a good second half and I think we re fortunate to come out with a point But we take it That s part of the learning process And we ll take the learning lessons from this Added Dreyer Right now we have one point in two games and and I think we sit in there and if we look at minutes against Minnesota and against Atlanta in the current era we think we should have had more points But yeah we need to keep that level for minutes before it s a real success SDFC returns home for its final regular season home match at Snapdragon Stadium on Sept hosting the San Jose Earthquakes with kickoff set for p m