17 games down, 17 more to go.
After dropping the first of six consecutive away games to the New York Red Bulls last Saturday, Atlanta United is officially halfway through the 2025 MLS season, sitting in 12th place in the Eastern Conference with 17 points and a 4-8-5 record. It’s been a very disappointing season so far given the hype and anticipation built up over what was supposed to be a highly transformative offseason.
Now that we have a decent sample size, we thought we’d bring our staff together to give each player a midterm rating out of 10 for their 2025 performance so far.
Brad Guzan | Overall rating: 6.17
Grey: 8
Henry: 5
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 7
Tommy: 7
Tyler: 7
Alexey Miranchuk | Overall rating: 5.17
Grey: 5
Henry: 6
Jackson: 4
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 4
Tyler: 6
Miguel Almiron | Overall rating: 4.5
Grey: 4
Henry: 4
Jackson: 4
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 4
Tyler: 5
Emmanuel Latte Lath | Overall rating: 5.5
Grey: 4
Henry: 7
Jackson: 4
Sydney: 7
Tommy: 6
Tyler: 5
Saba Lobjanidze | Overall rating: 5.83
Grey: 6
Henry: 8
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 6
Tyler: 6
Bartosz Slisz | Overall rating: 5.67
Grey: 6
Henry: 6
Jackson: 4
Sydney: 7
Tommy: 5
Tyler: 6
Luis Abram | Overall rating: 5.0
Grey: 5
Henry: 5
Jackson: 2
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 6
Tyler: 6
Derrick Williams | Overall rating: 4.83
Grey: 6
Henry: 4
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 5
Tyler: 5
Matt Edwards | Overall rating: 5.5
Grey: 7
Henry: 6
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 5
Tyler: 6
Brooks Lennon | Overall rating: 3.67
Grey: 4
Henry: 4
Jackson: 2
Sydney: 5
Tommy: 3
Tyler: 4
Pedro Amador | Overall rating: 5.0
Grey: 5
Henry: 5
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 6
Tyler: 5
Jay Fortune | Overall rating: 7.17
Grey: 8
Henry: 9
Jackson: 5
Sydney: 7
Tommy: 7
Tyler: 7
Stian Gregersen | Overall rating: 4.5
Grey: 4
Henry: 4
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 6
Tyler: 4
Tristan Muyumba | Overall rating: 5.83
Grey: 7
Henry: 7
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 7
Tyler: 5
Mateusz Klich | Overall rating: 5.17
Grey: 5
Henry: 6
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 5
Tyler: 6
Ronald Hernandez | Overall rating: 4.83
Grey: 5
Henry: 4
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 7
Tommy: 5
Tyler: 5
Noah Cobb | Overall rating: 5.33
Grey: 6
Henry: 5
Jackson: 3
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 5
Tyler: 7
Jamal Thiare | Overall rating: 6.67
Grey: 6
Henry: 8
Jackson: 4
Sydney: 7
Tommy: 7
Tyler: 8
Edwin Mosquera | Overall rating: 4.17
Grey: 4
Henry: 3
Jackson: 2
Sydney: 6
Tommy: 5
Tyler: 5
What do you think of these ratings? Who was too generous or too harsh? Let us know in the comments and fill out your own midseason player ratings here!
This feels rlly inconsistent.
Agree with Fortune being our best player so far. It took Deila well into the first half of the season to start giving him consistent starts in the midfield, insteadof LW (WTF). Worried that when Mayumba returns, he is going to drop Fortune again.
I think he saw how good Fortune and Muyumba played together (despite it being only one or two full matches), so I hope Deila sees them as complementary rather than filling the same spot. The big question will be whether Muyumba consistently starts over Slisz. That’s a good trio of midfielders if they are healthy and in form. Klich seems to be a great second-half substitute to help pry open a defense and play mind games. Add in Reilly, and this should be one of the deepest groups of central and holding midfielders that we have ever had.
I think “own goal” should get a rating.
One of the best players on the team.
Its almost like we need a “vibes” rating and a “key moments” rating.
The vibes for Lennon are low but has he committed errors that have contributed to concessions or messed up clear cut goal scoring chances?
A foil to that might be Guzan. The vibes say he’s still got it. But if we look at some of our concessions … cant help but wonder what the advanced analytics say.
I could nitpick Lennon all day (the turnover against Philly, while playing hero ball, directly led to a goal or that his crosses are continually too high for a non-8 foot player), but what I see bad body language when not passed too or something doesn’t go as planned and he hits the “surrender cobra” pose. He also is a poor defender. Oh well, so much for my not nit picking. My impression of Guzan is that his “range” that he can cover to stop shots has declined to where what would be somewhat normal saves now look spectacular.
The eye test shows his own teammates have lost confidence in Lennon. Multiple instances across multiple games where we have seen players intentionally turn away from an open Brooks. There is typically one of two results when he gets the ball, a pass back or a slow lofted cross to nobody.
He and the club need a change during the winter window, and a trade to another MLS team may be the best thing possible to move on. His new team would get half a season to see if he is a good fit before having the option to extend him for one more season.
Nahhh, Jackson thought this was a “rate from 1-5” there’s literally no way.
Throwing Saba a 3 when he’s the only player that actually runs? Lol not to mention all the rest?
The minimum average is so skewed due to it I’m not sure if this is a real post or not
Chat, are we as cooked as Jackson?
13th out of 15
Team sucks…how could you give anyone over a 5. Im with Jackson.
Jackson, rating Fortune as our best player at 5 is kind of wild. Statistically, I think the staff would have been better of dropping the highest and lowest value to get the average because Jackson’s numbers are skewing the whole data. Although I can also see most of the staff is more generous with the rating.
You have to normalize ratings like these…
Jackson and Sydney may need to sit down with a mediator to work out their differences.
i won’t comment about the individual ratings because they are so subjective…especially with the first half of the season we’ve had. but i will say two things: