Matchday 23: DCU at Chivas USA [updated]

I think they are going to win. 3-0

Fred, Benny and Luciano

Sunday will be interesting, with 2 long flights this week.

I too am live at the HDC.

first time visit, fantastic facility.

The Cathedral of US Soccer - Open only on weekends

With a Thursday exception or two...

Hey, Steve, you may have to do play by play...I understand that the ESPN2 college game is running long.

Currently it's 12:30 to go in the 3rd quarter of a 38-35 game.

You all are screwed. See ya at halftime

I say DC wins 2:1. Emilio re-takes the lead in the race for the golden boot.

C'mon UNITED!

Buck up Goff. Flying trans-oceanic isn't so bad anymore as long as you've got a personal video player in the seatback. You get to catch up on movies, television shows, or play some trivia against fellow travelers.

Just remember to get up every couple of hours or so to move around, and breathe in some wetted paper towels to get some moisture in your nostrils.

I can't believe Kornheiser spelled my name in his little screed today.

This should be a tough game just like last weekend at Dallas should have been.

Luciano Emilio will score a hattrick in memory of that Italian Luciano that sang at the World Cup.

Simms is the key. If he disrupts Chivas enough then we should be in good shape. Hopefully we can walk away with 1-0.

No trade talks? Are we at least looking at a USL or unsigned player to fill out the roster?

The Louisville game is at 6:19 remaining in the 3rd quarter.

We'll be lucky if that game is over before 1130 PM Eastern.

McTavish out of the starting lineup again??

"...MLS Pool Goalie"???

Who/What are they? Is Tom Presthus a pool goalie now??
Where do these people live, Garber's guest house??

At this point, why would we need to "fill out the roster?" Do we not have enough players?

Well looks like I am not going to be able to watch the game now that it will not be shown on television..

can't they at least start showing the game on espnnews or classic or even espnU?

in the past they have shown games on espn360, what is the deal with that? is it free?

That is two games in a row that we are going to be missing the start of the match because of other games running over on ESPN2.

Thank goodenss for WMET http://wmet1160.com/

looks like espn 360 is only available through certain internet providers. anyone with verizon or rcn should get it? not me though

Sparse crowd tonight.

I don't quite know why no one wants to come out and watch this team.

I hate games where the clock stops running. These teams need to learn how to play some defense and run the ball so the game takes less than 4 hours. GRRR. Maybe they'll show the game on espn or espn classic or espn news or espn 48 or something...

Just talked to Allen Hopkins and I've talked him into a Fells Point bar hop on the Friday night before MLS Cup.

He has no idea what he has gotten himself into.

If only Louisville and Middle Tennessee State ran the ball...

DC will be up 2-0 when ESPN2 switches the feed over, even with delay. 1 for Lucigol, GOTY-candidate from Simms.

MLSnet is now listing kick off time as 10:30. So now maybe we only miss the first 20 minutes....

Goff, any word from the stadium as to whether they're going to delay or not? The football game just now is getting to the 4th quarter.

the game was always supposed to start at 10:30

Actually, the game was originally scheduled for 7 pm PDT but with last weeks WNBA game going way past their limit, MLS moved the game back a half hour.

Fruitless effort at the end of the day however.

We've always been at war with Eastasia.

Andy, I am pretty sure the game was originally supposed to start @ 10:30.

well, the longer they delay the match, the more people that might watch it after the Colts/Saints game on NBC is over.

Looks like United in the all whites tonight

ESPN moved the game back last week.

This football game is really starting to piss me off. Even when they run the ball, someone gets hurts and it takes another 90 seconds to get him up so he can run off. This is brutal.

how many people can they put in the stadium tonight anyway?

Are Thursday night matches part of the deal with the college where attendance is limited to like 15,000 people, like it was during the SuperLiga?

Are they gonna start the match at 10:30pm or will they wait for ESPN2?

C Webb you're on play-by-play... Go!

I'd be taking a pay cut if I did that. :)

they will not wait. we are going to miss 25 minutes or so. any other team would have finished the game by now, but not louisville, they routinely make 4+ hour games...

This is a crock of S$%#! Watching Middle Tennessee State vs. Louisville. What a GD joke. They wouldn't do this if Beckham was playing :)

Still. This is Bul'sht. That's a contraction.

Kickoff is at 10:53

New kickoff, 10:53

Kickoff moved to 10:53 for now.

ESPN2 just said kickoff will be at 10:53

I take that back...they are delaying the kickoff until 10:53. That's unheard of, but I will take it.

why can't they bump this show about the 2003 red sox game and the 1998 rodeo off ESPN Classic for a live game? does that make too much sense?

I can't believe it has taken them like 25 minutes to play 4 minutes of "football". This is torture.

odessa steps magazine:

the answer to your question is no. the superliga final was the first day of night classes, that's all.

from a Galaxy fan.

Ah, newly announced 10:53 kick-off...that's a logical time change...

It has taken 23 minutes for the first 4 minutes of this quarter.

and now another injury. And even though he is not on the field, they are still holding up the game. Pathetic.

Well done MLS.

Cool... thanks for the heads-up on the new kickoff time. I'm adding an extra hour to the end of my recording and then going to bed... just too late for this grizzled vet...;-)

They are holding up play for a guy that is lying injured on the sidelines. This really makes me wish for the soccer stretcher to keep the game moving, but macho football fans would never understand that.

Looks like my forethought to tack on an additional 30 mins to my DVR recording is going to pay off.

Provided it's worth watching.

bets on what time this game will end? i am saying 11:15

I'm not kidding when I say it looks to be about only 5-6,000 people here, and that's with a delayed kickoff

Is the wmet online feed sounding a bit weird for anyone else?

Are they really moving the real kick off back to 10:53 or is that the time that ESPN will start showing the game on a delay so we don't miss anything but it's not live.

11:09

The Wmet feed is a bit scratchy for me as well.

The Radio guy just said they have delayed the kickoff

I predict this game will go to 4 OTs

Ok... root for L'ville to get the ball back and the other team to have bad run defense.

11:09 is way optimistic. This crap is going all night :(

So do these guys in the helmets actually ever play? 10 min for a guy on the ground followed by 2 or 3 plays then a timeout. Painful... time to send another note to ESPN...

The NFL game started 90 minutes later and is going to finish before this one. That is sad.

They shouldn't get any more commercials after their allotted time has expired!

The sad thing is, ESPN probably doesn't care, because the football game probably gets much higher ratings than the soccer match, so they will let it run as long as it lasts, even if it really is 4 OTs.

Will Chang in da house!

Argh...fairly frustrated at the 4 letters right now

louisville has to try to run out the clock now, right? please?

FYI, Tony Limarzi is not here in LA (birth of his second child), so it's going to be quite interesting to see (or hear) how the radio broadcast will proceed without a live TV feed in Washington.

Actually, the fact that ESPN delayed the kick and is running the constant updates that the soccer is coming is a good sign that they recognize that a bunch of people are out here waiting to see it. They can't help that this crap has gone an hour too long, but they are doing a good job of getting as much of it to us as they can.

ESPN2 just made it sound like they were going to cut away to the MLS game... hmmm... I'll believe it when I see it!

uh, momentary split screen, interesting, and yet really just a tease

AHHHH! They cut away mid-free kick!

The answer, apparently, is it is not.

No broadcast going right now.

yup, they're true to their colors... no cut away! F@#$!

Goff do something

3rd mminute: Emilio goal

So how many times can they get away with delaying the kick-off? I think its going totake more than 20 min to play the final 6 minutes...

Gromit, do something!

A GOAL!

AND WE MISSED IT!

DAMN YOU, BSPN!

ESPN 360

Emilio Goal? I'd rather watch Louisville run out the clock.

C Webb, we want an impromptu, solo UnitedMania fan zone, please...

Great Goal Emilioooooooo!!!

Life of a soccer fan: Woke up to early an early U-17 semi-final at 6am this morning. And am still waiting for this game to start. Guess am not getting any sleep today. DC better win! :)

WTF, even the WMET web feed is covering the game yet!

Gomez feeds Moreno, who finds Emilio with some space, 17 yards top left corner
1-0

Woo-hoo! Luci takes the Budweiser Scoring lead again!

Goff make them score another

Razov dangerous header, stopped by Perkins

matchtracker is up and running - wmet is still on ads filing until the game ends up on tv

Goal Emilio!

why are these idiots calling time out with a 16 point lead and 2 minutes left? I hope Louisville loses every other game this year.

Gotta love all of these early goals. Luci needed one bad to get back on top

B.A.: nice call on the first goal...

espn should rott in hell. no one cares about this game. how can you just put a lil graphic up to show the minutes running and the score. this game is over they are running out the clock go to the game you were suppose to show.

Simms almost lost it in the middle, good hustle by Gomez to knock it to Burch. Good passing ending in a nice pass by Moreno and clinical finish by Emilio

Thanks for doing this Goff, you are THE MAN

and the radio station has technical difficulties...lovely.

Fourth straight game United has scored within eight minutes of kickoff

get up you effer!

when can they start taking a knee? can't they just switch already? this game is over!!

Great shot by Emilio puts DCU up 1-0 in the 3rd minute........but ESPN2 is too busy showing crappy mop-up minutes of this Lousville game.

Oh, thank goodness they give us a scoreboard in the upperleft hand corner. Now I can see with my own eyes how much I'm missing with the other game.

Can't the american football game's clock move that fast?

But I am on ESPN 360 and I can't figure out how to make it go. It says my cable operator carires it and I have the browser.

game over!!! thank god!

"any final thoughts on the game, so we can stall a little more?"

-commentator

Did you just install the software for ESPN360? I had to reboot my computer then it worked.

Does anyone else hate ESPN!!! WTF

Vamos United!

wow that crowd looks pathetic

And now to soccer where you have to think twice to stop a game when a player is down with a concussion.

"wow that crowd looks pathetic"

They know they're going DOOOOOWN!

Wow Gomez almost with a brilliant goal.

OMG! That would have been goal of the year for sure.

Aren't they going to show us a replay of the goal at least.

I feel like a drunk who is getting a drink to take away the DT's. Ahhhhhh...United fix. Mmmmm...Vamos United!

Imagine that, Wynalda being the voice of reason after Tommy Smyth's babbling about Jaime.

Ooof - nice save Troy!

Namoff dodged a bullet there...

Gomez almost beats Guznan from midfield

they keep calling emilio our highest paid player - i thought that was gomez?

Emilio is thinking about leaving? Don't we have him signed to a contract? Can someone look into that?

Ok Boswell is earning his money.

Nice to have you back, Bobby.

LUCIIIII

Oh man, nice thru ball by Boz!

And then another GOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL

Luci Luci Luci!!

2-0 Emilio.

Emilio for DP.

This team makes me want to cry they're so beautiful. Magical. Where's Ray Hudson when you need him.

Only the moments my kids were born were more of a sign that God exists and loves us.

Oh joy!

guzan,what a horrible play and what a horrible crowd at the HDC. hell yeah dc 2-0!! That is the support of a team that is undefeated at home??? another wynalda comment about emilio looking for antother team, what is the deal with that???

Because it has to be said, though I abhor when people say these types of things in comments:

Naturalize Emilio Now!

well, even Ray Hudson would be better than these 3 morons.

I Luci! Pay him whatever he wants.

Ray could give us a bit of the he's-running-around-like-a-3-legged-giraffe.

Cable TV, so get ESPN: $33/month
Text Messaging, to discuss the game: $10/month
PBR, to celebrate: $6.50/12 pack

Watching DC United destroy Chivas USA in front of an empty house: Priceless.

How do rumors get started, they're started by the jealous people

Oh boy

holy crap.... it's kasey keller!!!!

Wow...just...wow...

What in the world....?

Oh my lord...

Man, that sucks. Shtuff happens.

THAT'S WHY YOU TOUCH TO WIDTH!!

we want Nolly

We need 2 more goals to erase the memory of that ridiculous own goal.

Wow, I feel bad for Troy. That had to hurt.

Ugh. Poor Troy. What are the odds???

ummmm well perkins had to top guzan on the mistake. too bad as he had a real nice streak going. was he blocked or did he not see the chivas player??

PLEASE respond with a goal to shut the 10 people in the crowd up.

Any keepers out there? Was the decision to boot it in the direction of Razov of a mistake, or was it just dumb luck?

Well well. So nobody could score against DC United. Except for Perkins :) Gotta be an MLS record

how did I know the Idiot Dave O'Brien would once again bring up the CCC game against Chivas? I hate these people. That was 6 f'ing months ago!

Shut up about CONCANCAF, Tommy Smyth. He's redeemed himself, okay?

Does anyone else listen to this game muted. Wynalda is a complete douche

Can someone explain to me why there always seems to be so much room for the Goats on the left wing? What is Namoff doing that opens up so much space? Pinching? Simply getting caught too high?

The best way to forget that goal is 2 goals from Jamie, 2 from Benny and the obligatory Josh Gros game sealing goal.

For the record, Gros will score from wherever he's watching the game from.

Holy cow...almost an own goal!!

Whoa...scary....

and a great save by the post

I have a bad feeling that a Chivas equalizer is coming sometime before the half is over. The fluke goal has really put Chivas back in the game.

This game is way more exciting than it should be. United reverting to old (bad) habits.

C'mon, after that comment about being left-footed, I know he's a mixed bag, but Wynalda is good for a laugh.

All this praise for Bornstein and his left foot...and nothing about our own LB.

*sigh*

burch= one of the best crossers in mls now

roblinsky: If you have a surround sound system, take out the front channels. All ambience.

...Well, for home games.

Unbelievably disingenuous comments by Wynalda and O'brien regarding Boswell's anti-ESPN Rant. Completely mis-characterizes the comments, then asks if that was why Soehn benched him!? Because he correctly called out ESPN's poor coverage? Wow, the collective ego is amazing...

BTW - The halftime show is telling me Chicago is beating DC 2-1 at the half.

Olsen seems to be spending a lot of time in the middle for some reason. I think he needs to be helping Namoff out a bit more with Galindo. I think we relaxed when it got to 2-0 and everyone thought this was going to be as easy as Dallas. I expect Tommy will let them have it at halftime.

espn is so ignorant.. its halftime.. they have a graphic that shows that dc united is playing chicago and are losing 2 - 1 ... this is a game they are broadcastin.. get it right fools

interesting to note that the team is really setting up the Burch cross, its part of the tactical toolkit now

Hah...on the halftime graphics it says

Chi-2
DC-1

and it has the Chicago fire logo above CHI...

Oh how I loathe ESPN

why does ESPN keep reporting on this bogus rumor that Beckham is seeking a loan deal in England. Has it ever been reported outside of the British tabloid reusing quotes from Lalas from 6 months ago?

I guess 2 others had the same revelation as I did...

Best exchange so far:

Tommy: Did you ever score one like that, Eric?
Eric: What? With my butt?

According to the halftime scoreboard, we are trailing at the half 2-1.

Who knew?

And Bill Urban, I'm not allowed to do any commentary until I've passed my Series 7 Marcelo Balboa "How to mumble" commentary class at the local community college.

Christian Miles is our Valedicitorian

If you squint, you can pretend the empty seats are all blue instead of green. Then it's almost like we're in Chicago.

It's still there.

I thought we were playing Chivas in LA not Chicago tonight?

Beckham wants to return a portion of his contract to play in England until June? What a disaster for MLS. The message, from Beckham to MLS: You're not Good Enough.

sorry it's sucked for y'all, i just got off work and i'm thrilled it's only half time.

B.A.: Awesome tip! However I secretly enjoy listening to the ignorant coverage...it's like watching Fox News

Oops. I see others saw this too. Gotta love ESPN. At least they can pronounce Namoff's name now.

No way beck hams should be allowed to go. You don't want to play in the league with the messed up calendar? Then don't sign here...

I hear Beckham is going to buy the Galaxy and move the team to England purple monkey dishwasher

And Bill Urban, I'm not allowed to do any commentary until I've passed my Series 7 Marcelo Balboa "How to mumble" commentary class at the local community college.

Christian Miles is our Valedicitorian

Posted by: C Webb | September 6, 2007 11:46 PM

Did Christian teach you to say shambolic over and over again? Shambolic! Shambolic! Shambolic! And other stupid Britishisms that make you sound like a twit?

Anyone else thing that Jen Chang blogger over at espn/soccernet is american soccer's Debby Downer? Does that dude appreciate
1) any US player?
2) any Bob Bradley decision?

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3005217&name=chang_jen

I'm already a twit.

I don't need no help from C Miles.

Disagree that Perkins has redeemed himself. He has been average at best this year. He should have saved Beckham's FK in the Superliga semifinal. It's better to be lucky than good and Perkins has been lucky on a number of occasions when he has made bad decisions the past month.

I have to say that I'm developing a solid man-crush on all the fellow Soccer Insider commentors here. Here I am dropping F*$# bombs at ESPN for showing the wrong score and wrong team names, wondering who else would be awake to ask if this is really happening... then I sign on here and there are 15 people posting about it simultaneously.

I love United fans.

i like how confident perkins is playing right now

How can you say Perkins have been average? I think he's been better than average. Not keeper of the year but certainly better than average.

Andrew: Perkins is THE MAN!!!

Has Fred been involved tonight? Missed 1st half, and haven't seen him do anything in the 1st 10 mins of 2nd half.

On a random note, I think there is a call girl standing behind Preki. Does Chivas have cheerleaders? (People with Tivo can check it out)

And Perkins, on an incidental goof, has let in one goal in 7 games... That's better than average.

phew! Glad he rushed that shot

Goal frame for MotM.

Wow, Boswell is slooooow. Good thing Galindo can't finish . . . this time.

Man, we've gotten some lucky breaks on Chivas mistakes. Could be 3-2 by now.

Yes, Chivas has cheerleaders.

Yes, there are probably more cheerleaders there than fans.

Oops

There you go...

Oh. There's the equalizer.

Ugh

SK flashed a TON of ball there. If the defender rushed towards him instead of Backing Off (?!?) he wins the ball

Aaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Unlucky off Clyde Simms...

good composure by Sacha Klejstan...

Maybe now DC will start playing again.

We've lost everything we had for the last few weeks. Really need to slow it down and get possession back. Not good right now...

are we even trying anymore?

Sometimes when you score so early in the game, it just throws you off. You end up having to defend those goals for most of the game.

Looked like Perkins gave up on the ball as soon as it was deflected. I would've liked to have seen more reaction there.

So which subs do you make? Kpene?

please take Fred out of the game

Can't blame Perkins on that one

More reaction? Come on? It was a deflection. Nothing a keeper can do about that.

I would say put in Mediate or Carroll to shore up the midfield

Great ball Burch... Nice move to the goal. That's more like it

The game certainly feels like a couple months ago... different swagger to the team, expecting the worst

WTF? That was a clean tackle.

It was deflected just inside the 18. Keepers never save deflections? I would've like to see him not get stuck on his feet.

Sweet call by the ref

Simms needs to slide to block the shot -- it's not as useful to just stick out a foot

I wish I could make a Graham Poll joke right now.

Vanney sucks!
Fred's a bust!
Soehn is worthless!

;)

Oops, Kevin Stott.

It's the reverse Graham Poll.

Where does the leadership on this team disappear to in games/situations like this?

we got three subs soehn ... we're not playing well ... let's use one or two of them

How does Chivas expect anyone to be able to read that horrid gold lettering on the players' backs? If their other decisions concerning presentation of their product are like that, no wonder they hardly have any fans.

Is it me or have we not heard enough from Fred tonight so far?

gotta get the off-ball running going...and some more 1- and 2-touch passing.

3 of our defenders with a caution now. How close is Burch to a suspension for yellow card accumulation?

Couple good possessions in a row...

Need to feed it thru Fred lately, he's been key on United's hot run

Gomez is really sharp tonight. United might not come out of this alive, but at least he is starting to turn the corner.

Fred and Olsen have not been strong thus far

does this remind anyone of the past few seasons when we had no offensive options off the bench that would threaten to come in and score? I have more confidence in Kpene than Jamil Walker but Kpene hasn't scored yet in the MLS

Fred not strong?!? You can't do anything if you never see the ball. He is the Single calmest DC player on the ball in the rare times he gets it

Benny, Benny...cross the ball!

what, Moreno out? take out Fred !!!

Fred sometimes tries to do too much and forces the ball forward. I would often much rather see the easy ball played out wide.

Carroll on for Moreno. Probably pushing Fred up top.

Seriously though, this is a tired team right now.

I said before the game that it would might be wise to make a few changes to the starting X1 to save some legs for the NE game.

Right now I'm not sure if United will be able to put up a fight against the Revs. They simply look gassed.

heh heh heh! atta boy fred, make me look bad!

Also..thank you Preki for taking Razov out of the game. You single handedly killed your team's ability to maintain any type of possession.

players dc should take off in order (some for reasons of play, some for tactical reasons, and some for both):

1) Ben Olsen
2) Fred
3) Emilio
4) Gomez

I agree, DCU looks tired. Chivas is quicker on the counter. If not for their ineptitude, we'd be looking at a different game.

Jimmy - what, to hold a tie at home?

AHHHH Espn feed cut out

Oh great, there goes the feed...

keep soccer off ESPN. I'm starting the petition now

apparently ESPN2 goes off the air at 12:30...who knew?!

someone forgot to expand the satellite feed...

satellite time must have run out. that seems like a fitting end to an f-ed up night

WTF?! did they think they were supposed to shut this game off whether it were done at 12:30 or not?

This is all fixed by ESPN...I just know it.

Hey, I wanted to see my boys lose to the Fire!

Can't see the game... Again.

Goal Lucigol... Again?

He just mocked us...

"Obviously we're experiencing some technical difficulties. Pretty good game going on"
(Too bad you all can't see it)

Jerks

classic . . . AND classy. Way to go, Deuce . . .

Espn pushed the game back, but forgot to buy more satellite time. awesome.

grrrrrrr

The great thing is, they'll give us a full allotment of commercials before going back to the game

It's as though when it comes to soccer, ESPN is still stuck in 1979.

Aaaaaand....Beckham

This is disgraceful from ESPN

Since there's no feed, who won? Did DC get another goal?

At least they could have put on Heidi

doesn't England have to qualify for Euro 2008 first before Becks would go back there for the spring? Certainly not a done deal by any means.

ESPN just had to get their commercials in, didn't they?

ESPN is a ****ing joke.

Amazing how their technical difficulties lasted just long enough for a commercial break and highlights of the football with very little foot game....bastards!!!

So, they get the feed back and decide to cut to a replay of the GotW? Bad choice ESPN!

Chivas got robbed on that last call...

Er...

Bad offside call for Man of the Match?

i hate to say it, but we're lucky to get away with a tie

Keep showing the botched offsides no-call. Forget about the botched PK no-call early on.

No need to qualify your statement, roblinsky. Whew.

after starting out so strong we just gave up. could very easily have been a loss. better figure it out before sunday.

Phew... I'm relieved just to get a point out of that one. It was painful to sit through ESPN's commentators for a full 90. DCU had two nice goals and Chivas got lucky on theirs, so not a bad effort for a tired team. Could have been worse.

Good night East Coast!

i will be up at 5am for women's world cup, are they crazy, who is that commercial for?

Drab second half from DCU. Namoff solid defensively, but he and Clyde uncharacteristically sloppy with the ball.

Seems like from the moment Smyth pointed out how good our width was, our width immediately started sucking. Bowling alley Futbol, esp. in the second half.

DCU very lucky the last 10, but given two deflected goals against, maybe they had it coming.

Tough point on the road

Ugly tie.

Perkins makes too many poor decisions for my liking. He is good for at least one a game, though he doesn't always get punished. I rate him behind Reis, Guzan, Cannon & Onstad & on par with Busch, Sala & Seitz.

Wow level of play was very high tonight.

Have fun in China, Goff! Hope you get to sightsee a little.

We were awful for the last hour. Even if it took 2 lucky goals for Chivas to get even, they deserved to win the game. Obviously, that last offsides call was awful, even by MLS referee standards. I don't know if Chivas played that well as much as us just handing them the ball over and over again. Honestly, with the number of turnovers we had, they should have won this game with ease.

Perkins, the back four, and Emilio played well. Everyone else, not so much. Fred may have had his worst game in a DC shirt. If we play like this against the Revs, we will not be in first for long.

Let me be the first:

Perkins 7
Namoff 6
Boswell 7
Vanney 7
Burch 7
Olsen 4
Simms 5
Gomez 5
Fred 3
Moreno 5
Emilio 7
B. Carroll 5
Mediate NR

I'm not even going to bother talking about ESPN. This is a family website, after all.

What poor decisions did Perkins make? 2 extremely lucky deflected goals.

If you're trying to find a reason why teams struggle, look to the midfield, grasshopper...

Really good play. Of course the game hinges on a blown call in favor of DC. There aren't many teams that can beat DC, but there won't be refs as fraudulent as tonight.

Only shot at a trophy is the Supporters Shield. And that will be decided this weekend.

Weird game. That was one awful second half for United. And where was Fred tonight? That may have been his worst game all season. Almost every touch was terrible.

Wonder what Perkins is feeling now...

And yeah, those refs were really good tonight: RED card to you -- Whoops, sorry, I mean, yellow card to that other guy that I thought was you... Was that offside? Oh heck, I'll just raise my flag anyway...

The first goal resulted in a poor decision by Perkins. It was unlucky for sure, but he should not have tried clearing so close to Razov and the DC defender (Boswell I think). He wasn't under pressure so the better decision would have been to step on the ball and play it to the other side...or just out of bounds to his left.

The first goal resulted in a poor decision by Perkins. It was unlucky for sure, but he should not have tried clearing so close to Razov and the DC defender (Boswell I think). He wasn't under pressure so the better decision would have been to step on the ball and play it to the other side...or just out of bounds to his left.

Posted by: Andrew | September 7, 2007 01:18 AM

It was Vanney, not Boswell. Vanney gave up on the ball when Perkins was coming out for it. Perhaps he should have kept up his momentum toward the ball and touched it back to Troy so he could have cleared it before Razov had a chance to get in the way. And Troy should have blasted the ball higher so there would be no doubt.

What's the Wednesday game that Goff mentions in his gamer? Is that the Copa Interamericana?

J-J: we play Real Salt Lake on the 12th in a game that (according to my DC United wallet-sized game schedule) was originally supposed to be Sept 27. THAT later date is about when we will now play Chivas de Guadalajara in the Copa Sudamericana.

Ah, gotcha. Thx!