Facing a regular season game that felt essentially just like a playoff game, D.C. United needed to come up big against the Montreal Impact. In many ways, this game’s stakes were actually higher than at least some playoff games. After all, if you get into the postseason but lose, you still get to call yourself a playoff team. Missing out entirely, as would have become very likely for United if Montreal had won, means your season goes down in the record books as unequivocally missing something. In MLS, the divide between the teams that get in and the teams that don’t is the shorthand for who was good and who was bad.
Four takeaways from D.C. United’s demolition of the Montreal Impact
