In the postmortem of Sunday's 1-1 draw with Chivas USA, FC Dallas felt they started the game exactly as they wanted. But as the match went on, so did an inability to possess the ball, and as a result the team's chances came solely from long balls since there was little or no distribution coming from the central midfield.

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