D.C. United Coach Wayne Rooney has been in the pro game for 20 years, but after a 6-0 defeat to the Philadelphia Union on Saturday, he said he had “never felt that as a player or a coach. I don’t want to feel that again.”
The worst home defeat in 27 MLS regular seasons was one goal short of the club-record fiasco against the same opponent six weeks ago in Chester, Pa., which occurred just before the retired striker was lured back to Washington after playing here in 2018 and 2019.
Rooney said he was “disappointed, frustrated and embarrassed by the second-half performance” in which the Eastern Conference-leading Union scored four times — and could have had several more.