D.C. United will spend almost the entire balance of the MLS season at Buzzard Point, match after match at a new venue where the quality of soccer and the results have turned its way this summer. But the first of seven consecutive home dates Wednesday — a laborious 2-1 victory over Minnesota United — looked and felt more like an away test.
D.C. did not perform well, the players agreed afterward. Touches were off, energy was low, ideas came and went.
Early in the second half, Ben Olsen’s gang faced a deficit against a foe that had not won on the road since March.