Herc Gomez

He scored his second goal of the season, and yet he's probably the best player in CONCACAF right now.

Cruz Azul has a penchant for just letting themselves go.

They're such a good team within Liga MX.

They're in the top two, I believe, at the moment.

And we saw this last year as well.

As good as that roster is, as good as they go forward, they seem to really struggle with teams that are fast and vertical.

You go back to League's Cup.

It was the Seattle Sounders who dropped seven on them.

Touchdown and an extra point.

And they lacked the understanding of, and Shaq, you've been there, of, all right,

There's a two game series.

We may give up one, maybe two, but that's it.

We're shutting it down.

We'll take it back and take our chances in Mexico.

And they leave themselves exposed.

They don't know a different way of playing than how they do by combining numbers and trying to overwhelm you with possession in the flanks or in that final third.

And in so, Shaq said it, they leave themselves exposed.

And when you can't control

exposure in that defensive third against teams that thrive under that, against teams that just want to rope-a-dope you.

Like, LAFC has no problem if you have the ball.