It is, quite frankly, enormously difficult to predict what sort of lineup both D.C. United and the Montreal Impact will trot out tonight. Thanks to some frankly nonsensical scheduling - twelve of the thirteen MLS teams with a game tonight also have games on Saturday, which is one less recovery day between games than is considered reasonable - these two Eastern Conference teams have to play an important game with either second-choice players or with tired starters who would be at a higher risk for injury.
I’d love to go on about how DC’s problem in that regard is particularly acute (in that group of twelve, DC played Sunday while everyone else had a game Saturday), but we don’t have time for that.