Who: DC United v. Houston Dynamo When: Saturday, July 22 @ 6:00 pm CDT Where: RFK Stadium; Washington, DC Records: DC United (5-12-3), 11th in East Houston Dynamo (8-7-5), 3rd in West TV: KUBE-57 Radio: 610 am/1010 am (Spanish) This is the 21st regular season game of the year for both Houston and DC. This is the only meeting between the teams this year. Last year was a 0-0 draw in Houston in June. The last time the Dynamo went to DC was a 1-1 draw in May of 2015. DC United's most recent game was a road loss, 4-3, at Seattle on July 19. DC led that game 0-3 before giving up 4 goals in the 2nd half. That makes them 1-4-0 in their last 5 league games scoring 7 goals and allowing 12. They have lost 5 in a row in all competitions but all of those were road games. They did win their last home league game on June 21. So far this year DC United is 3-4-2 in home league games. Their next game after playing Houston is at Minnesota United on Saturday, July 29. The Dynamo are 1-1-3 over the last five league games scoring 7 goals and allowing 7. Houston is 0-7-3 in road league games this year. The Dynamo next host Portland on July 29 and then travel to Salt Lake on August 5.
Dynamo @ DC United, all-time: 04/15/06 DCU 2-0 HOU 05/26/07 DCU 2-1 HOU 07/19/08 DCU 1-3 HOU, SuperLiga 07/23/08 DCU 0-2 HOU 04/04/09 DCU 1-0 HOU 09/25/10 DCU 1-3 HOU 06/25/11 DCU 2-2 HOU 04/28/12 DCU 3-2 HOU 11/18/12 DCU 1-1 HOU, MLS Playoffs 05/08/13 DCU 0-4 HOU 10/27/13 DCU 1-2 HOU 05/21/14 DCU 2-0 HOU 05/18/15 DCU 1-1 HOU That's 5-5-3 overall with 21 goals scored and 17 allowed.
Match preview: https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2017-07-22-dc-united-vs-houston-dynamo/preview DC UNITED Suspended: M Marcelo Sarvas (yellow card accumulation) International duty: GK Bill Hamid (USA) Injury Report: OUT – F Patrick Mullins (knee), QUESTIONABLE – M Rob Vincent (left knee meniscus) Projected Starting XI (4-2-3-1, left to right): Travis Worra – Chris Korb, Bobby Boswell, Steve Birnbaum, Taylor Kemp – Jared Jeffrey, Ian Harkes – Patrick Nyarko, Luciano Acosta, Lloyd Sam – Deshorn Brown HOUSTON Suspended: None International duty: F Erick Torres (Mexico) Injury Report: OUT – D George Malki (ACL), M Eric Alexander Projected Starting XI (4-2-3-1, left to right): Tyler Deric – DaMarcus Beasley, Leonardo, Adolfo Machado, AJ DeLaGarza – Ricardo Clark, Juan David Cabezas – Memo Rodriguez, Alex, Andrew Wenger – Mauro Manotas REFEREES Referee: Marcos DeOliveira Assistant Referees: Corey Parker, Jonathan Johnson Fourth Official: Mark Kadlecik
Weather forecast for Washington DC on Saturday night: 7 pm EDT 85F 72% humidity wind 8 mph WSW Mostly cloudy 6% chance of rain There is a chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon but it looks like it will just be hot and humid for the game. Temps will only fall slightly during the game and the humidity will go up.
Assuming DC does not host us in MLS Cup, I believe this will be Dynamo's last visit to RFK. Certainly a bleepin' dump, but we do have one very good memory there...
Hate how we stack up with Concacaf internationals we have missed so many important players over the years for bs international competitions. Buy Argentines or Brazilians... they will never miss games for international duty... all these Hondurans/Jamaicans (previously) always missing games. 22 goals missing tonight
LOL! Who are these guys. Actually during the Minnesota game I thought "watch these guys get the first road win".
The road thing is a mental thing more than anything. Hopefully they put their foot on the throats to fix the mentality.
With the exception of suspension, injury or Charities Cup: there's no reason we should see Joe Willis the rest of the year.
Glad for the 3 points but this was some ugly soccer.... soaked pitch + July D.C. heat/humidity. Nasty stuff.
I'm so glad for the players, they deserved a road win. Happy for them! And I really don't understand how they turn off the intensity in the second half. I was worried that we were going to see the same DC-United vs Seattle result, and DC was going to come back and score 4 on us... Alex, Alex, Alex. He's the soul of this team. And agree with somebody's comment: I AM GLAD we was able to win without Quito, Ellis, and Cubo! This team is fun to watch. Too bad fans are staying away from the stadium. PS Sad. I didn't even know there was a game this Saturday
You wake up some days in life and wonder, can it get any more crazy. Then hours later, while watching your football team on the road, the team that has not won a road game all season bangs home 3 goals from 3 different players and all from the run of play! Life sure is a kick to the head sometimes! I was left sitting there like is this bizarro world I am in now?!? Alex's back heel to Wenger for that in swinging cross for Memo to crane his neck around and fire home was just sublime football. Folks we have an entertaining, creative and not to shabby at the back football team this year in 2017 and I for one am very glad for Wilmer and what he has been able to sell to the old guard, youngsters and foreign talent to come together for the Wildcatter Orange jersey. Portland at home will be a solid test. We are on the back end of the MLS fixture list so go get 'em boys!!! DALE DYNAMO!!!
Wait... 3 goals against DC in RFK and no Will Bruin? ********ing A! I will miss RFK Stadium... I live with Max for a month about 10 years ago when he was working for a Senator there and his rental was like 2 miles away. Went to a couple DC matched including Houston v DC and DC v Revs. Of course I will never forget the USA v Costa Rica match when we clinched a World Cup berth on an amazing, rainy and cold night!