Pre-match: DCU vs FTRB: the return leg

Who cares.

 

RedBullCausesCancer

 

This is an interesting lineup. Two forwards!

Tonight's Starting XI.@Geico | #DCvRBNY pic.twitter.com/Vqw5k92cDV

— D.C. United (@dcunited) September 12, 2020

 

Also according to the broadcast Paredes is playing in an attacking midfield role, so the lineup is a 4-3-1-2, not a 5-3-2.

 

Game on.

 

First 15 minutes, DC's seeing a lot of the ball, but can't quite figure it out in the final third yet.

At least I'm not bored by this.

 

I'm not sure DC can sit Abu when Canouse gets healthy again.

 

This is all I really want. I get that we aren't always going to bring home the cup, but we don't have to play miserable soul crushing anti-soccer.

 

Nothing on goal, but a shot has happened.

 

Somebody should have picked up Aaron Long on that free kick...

 

Gressel or Odoi-Atsem looked to be the guilty party there.

 

Go-ah

 

Holy hell how did Rivas not score there.

 

it's like a different team

 

Kind of shocking what happens when attacking players are on the field and are allowed to attack.

Rivas looks solid in his first start. Has size, knows where to go, and definitely can shoot (still not sure how that volley off the corner didn't go in).

 

DC United has failed to score in the first half of their last 14 matches.

 

Yeah, and if we lose, Ben will never be this innovative again . . . ever.

 

it's fun to listen to Nelsen mispronounce Brillant with his Kiwi accent.

 

We missed the first 11 seconds of the second half.

 

Let's do the time warp again!

 

Time to bunker and preserve that goal differential.

 

How many missed clearing that ball?

 

We are horrid again.