First up: Can El Tree get off to a winning start?
at Q2 Stadium. Coming off a disappointing 12th-place finish in 2023 followed by an offseason of significant roster turnover, the club enters the season with plenty of questions to answer. These are the ones we’ll be paying the closest attention to.’s three prior season-opening matches, for example. Each not only foreshadowed how the ensuing season would unfold, but also set an early tone that permeated through the entire club.
The 2021 season opened with a hard-fought loss at LAFC exposing the then-expansion team’s lack of top-level talent. 2022, on the other hand, kicked off with a 5-0 fireworks display at Q2 Stadium that set the club off and running toward a top-four finish. Then, last season,’s infamous “own assist” headlined a 3-2 collapse against St. Louis City, putting Austin FC in a hole it never dug itself out of.
A huge factor will be health and consistency, the absence of which plagued the club throughout 2023. A whopping eight different players lined up at center back during the season due to injuries and roster turnover in what Wolff referred to as a “nightmare.”, plus the late addition of veteran Brendan Hines-Ike to the back line, should help with stability. Another key will be minimizing bad giveaways, which frequently led to opposing scoring chances last season.
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