With one-third of the regular season gone for most clubs, there are clearly some whose attacks are proving hit or miss.

There are four, in fact, who’ve scored in only half of their regular season contests so far this season.

Arguably the most confounding of them? It feels like Orange County SC, which when it has been good has been good enough to look like a potential contender. When it hasn’t, its defense – which has yet to post a shutout this campaign – hasn’t been able to step up.

This past Saturday we got the good attacking version of Orange County in a 3-1 victory against Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC before a sellout crowd of 5,000 fans at Championship Soccer Stadium.

“I’m pleased that we were able to take the moments that we had in the game tonight,” said OCSC Head Coach Danny Stone. “I think we could have scored a couple more goals still in the game, but I think the players rewarded themselves for taking an early chance and scoring the first goal, which is important, and then they fought.”

Saturday’s performance gave OCSC 13 goals in the five games in which it has scored this season – games in which it is 4-0-1 in the campaign, having recorded multiple goals on each occasion. For a team that on paper has attacking talent, though, it’s been confounding that there’s been no real margin between boom and bust so far, putting the side in the middle of the pack in the West.

It's also because of that we’re still optimistic as to where this side could be headed in the next 10 games. The underlying numbers are decent – OCSC is in the ranks of those underperforming its Expected Points mark in American Soccer Analysis’ breakdown – and we think there’s a chance for someone like Lyam MacKinnon or Bryce Jamison to catch a spark sooner rather than later.

In the muddled middle of the West, it’s time for some clubs to make a move.

Here are this week’s rankings.