For the third time in four meetings, DC ousted the Kickers from the US Open Cup as Jaime Moreno and Santino Quaranta scored second half goals to put the Kickers away 2-0. The win puts two time Cup winners DC United in the quarterfinals of the Open Cup for the fifth year in a row. Photo: Matt Mathai.
DC United dropped to 0-4 on the season with a crushing 2-0 loss to the Fire. Marco Pappa and Brian McBride scored goals in the final 10 minutes to keep United buried at the bottom of the table as the only pointless MLS team.
D.C. United leapfrogs past the Chicago Fire and into first place in the Eastern Conference via their 2-1 win over the Fire last night at RFK Stadium. United needed the win badly because they now go on a monstrous stretch of matches which will see the Black and Red play six of their next seven league matches away from home.
After Moreno’s masterful performance with those two goals to dispatch Dallas this past Saturday, when no United player seemed to be able to find the back of the net, I wanted to write a tribute article about the greatest player ever to wear Black-and-Red. But, then I realized I had already written it three years ago and it’s as accurate now as it was then.
Fue como una premonición para lo que iba a darse en el encuentro entre el DC United Washingtoniano y el FC Dallas. En una sencilla pero emotiva ceremonia el DC united capitalino premió a su capitán e histórico jugador emelesero el boliviano Jaime Moreno. Kevin Payne presidente del club en nombre de todo el equipo [...]
The more things change, the more they stay the same as the saying goes. After it struck me to compare the 2001 DC United team to the 2009 side, I was dumfounded with the similarities between the two teams and the situations they were in. Let’s just hope the results fare a little better this time around.
With Hoosiers on my mind (Thanks a lot Mike Wise, you catch that Wake game BTW?), I can’t help but think of that gym scene from the movie when the school is chanting “We want Jimmy!”, until Coach Dale silences them with that emphatic remark I used in my title. I can envision DC United’s Brainstaff pointing at the competent, but possibly underwhelming group they have assembled this off-season and saying the same thing to some skeptical fans after last season’s debacle.
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