In Week 6, we got our first taste of how Cal Jennings and MD Myers could work together in the front line for the Charleston Battery as they helped rally the side to victory past Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC.

This past Saturday, business continued to pick up. Behind a pair of goals by Myers, one of which came off an assist by Jennings, in the opening 10 minutes against Indy Eleven, the forward duo helped the Battery deliver a convincing 3-1 victory on the road at Indy Eleven that illustrated again how well these two can work together.

“I think MD and I have a great relationship so far, and it's only going to get better,” said Jennings. “It was awesome to see him get on the scoresheet again tonight, two goals to help lead us to a win. And honestly, it's been fun to learn how to position off each other, how we can combine a little more, and I'm happy to get an assist for him tonight as well.”

For the rest of the Eastern Conference, it’s clear this has the potential to be a major problem.

• GIVE AND TAKE: The beauty of the two players is their strengths play to the others. As Jennings acknowledged after Saturday’s game, Myers is the better hold-up player of the two. That allows him to take up more central positions and serve as a focal point for others to play off. Myers’ touch under pressure from opposing center backs allows him to link play, including completing 17 of 18 completed passes against Indy.

• INTO THE CHANNELS: That allows Jennings more freedom to roam and provide a threat to get in behind the back line in the left and right channels. That leaves defenders the choice to go with the most prolific finisher in the Championship this decade or hope an offside trap will curtail an opportunity. While there was a little overlap between the touches the two made against Indy, there was a clear pattern when it came to the spaces they primarily occupied.

• CHEMISTRY LESSON: In some ways, it’s a similar pattern to that which led the Battery’s success a season ago when Myers teamed with Golden Boot winner Nick Markanich to become the highest-scoring duo in a USL Championship regular season with 42 combined goals. The starting points for Jennings and Markanich’s movement are slightly different, but they work in the same way that creates space for both.

Of course, it’s never up to the strike partnership alone to create goals and chances, and the Battery’s support system around Jennings and Myers is stellar as well. The deft touch Juan David Torres showed to slip a pass between a defender’s legs to put Myers in for his opening goal on Saturday was the Colombian at his finest, while Arturo Rodriguez’s sublime strike early in the second half quickly put paid to any idea Indy had it would be coming back to earn a result.

The Battery aren’t quite the most prolific attacking team in the league so far this season, but the way they’re going about their business you’d expect them to be right there in the end. After Myers’ hat trick against South Georgia Tormenta FC in the U.S. Open Cup in midweek – the second consecutive year he’d done that against the League One side in the tournament – it’s clear there are going to be plenty of goals to be had for Charleston this season.

“MD’s got five goals in the last two matches,” said Battery Head Coach Ben Pirmann. “I think Cal was in the top couple in the league at one point, scoring goals. For me, I don't care who scores, I just care that we are scoring and that we're creating chances, because with the group that we have, if we move the ball selflessly, work very, very hard and intensely, with intensity out of possession, then we're going to score goals.”