Hard truth

I have loved Chara since his first game and am excited for him to be breaking all these records this year but his positioning has been poor. He has highlight reel stuff with his emergency defending chasing down someone to win the ball, but the concern is there is no pressure in front of the CBs and that is his role. If you rewatch the Ruidiaz goal, he is behind the assist man trying to catch up and Ruidiaz is wide open. He should have been at least goal side of the assist man as the CBs were marking other players.

I don't know that Ayala is the fix, but we need to start looking for a succession plan sooner than later.