Don’t Count out United Yet

Never count out DC United. Behind two out­stand­ing Luciano Emilio goals and some sloppy goal­keep­ing by Matt Reis, United crushed New Eng­land 3–0 in front of a small crowd in Foxbor­ough. Our friend BC John pointed out to me ear­lier today that a one touch pass­ing team like DC United seems to have suf­fered with Fred, a classy winger who likes the hold the ball in the lineup. Today with­out Fred and Chris­t­ian Gomez, and with a par­tially healthy Jaime Moreno (who come on at half­time and looked like he should have come out five min­utes later), United reasserted that despite the cur­rent table in the East they are always the team to beat in MLS. Later in the week I want to take a good look at atten­dance for some big mar­ket venues in MLS and dis­cuss why the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion is unac­cept­able irre­spec­tive of whether or not cer­tain places have soc­cer spe­cific sta­di­ums already.