We’ll start this by saying Riqui Puig is really good.
Or at least, he was before tearing his ACL in the Western Conference Final last Saturday, getting his LA Galaxy into MLS Cup despite playing on one good knee for the last half hour of the match and getting the match’s only assist in that time. My hope, of course, is that we get some kind of rehab worthy of Steve Austin, hero of my favorite ‘70s childhood show, and he comes back rebuilt and stronger than before.
(Somewhere, deep within the recesses of my childhood home where my mom still lives, the action figure and form-fitting rocket transporter live on. Probably. I should try to find that next time I’m in Seattle.)
To give you a dynamic visualization of what Riqui Puig meant to his team, friend of the site Chase Hoffman pointed us to this wonder that his colleague in the American Soccer Analysis group of soccer super-nerds (Matt Barger) put together:
