Atlanta looks to dent Nashville's unbeaten home 記録，記録的な／記録する
A rough run of form for Atlanta 部隊d doesn't get any easier on Thursday night when they visit a Nashville SC 味方する that is unbeaten in eight home games.
Atlanta (2-3-6, 12 points) is winless in its last six games (four draws, two 敗北・負かすs), most recently losing 3-0 in Chicago over the 週末 to the 解雇する／砲火／射撃, an 対抗者 that had one previous victory all season.
But in 新規加入 to 直面するing Nashville on its home turf, 経営者／支配人 Gabriel Heinze will also have to 人物／姿／数字 out how to field a team that could be without as many as 11 players.
の中で them, goalkeeper Brad Guzan and defenders Miles Robinson and George Bello are with the U.S. 国家の team at the Gold Cup. Winger Ezequiel Barco has joined Argentina's Olympic 準備s. Creative midfielder Santiago Sosa is 疑わしい with a lower-団体／死体 傷害, and striker Josef Martinez is 疑わしい with fitness 関心s.
Goalkeeper Alec Kann, who is likely to 取って代わる Guzan for Atlanta on Thursday night, hopes for one game that he and other reserves can （不足などを）補う for those absences with the energy that comes from 適切な時期.
"Guys are hungry," Kann told the Atlanta 定期刊行物-憲法. "Guys ask for 適切な時期s all the time. When they come, you need to take it and run with it."
Nashville (4-1-6, 18 points) has a couple Gold Cup absences of its own to 競う with, most 顕著に American defender Walker Zimmerman and Panamanian midfielder Anibal Godoy.
But unlike Atlanta, Thursday's hosts have plenty of 最近の success to give them 信用／信任. Most recently, they 改善するd their unbeaten home 記録，記録的な／記録する to 4-0-4 with a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Union on C.J. Sapong's 早期に goal.
It was also a 著名な 勝利，勝つ because 経営者／支配人 Gary Smith 選ぶd to 転換 形式s to a three-支援する system, showing the defending 支持者s' 保護物，者 支持する／優勝者s かなりの 尊敬（する）・点.
"These games are not going to be runaway victories," Smith said after the 勝利，勝つ. "They're always going to be tig ht 事件／事情／状勢s but trying to turn what might just have been a 競争の激しい game into a victory was never going to be 平易な. The guys have managed to do that tonight."
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