A late-season friendly in the heat of the MLS playoff race hardly seemed like the proper circumstance for D.C. United’s Wayne Rooney and Luciano Acosta to reprise their starting partnership.
But with both in need of playing time and the league rigors on pause this weekend, the top-shelf attackers were in action Wednesday for all of the 1-1 draw with Mexican club Puebla before about 6,000 at Audi Field.
Rooney almost provided a phenomenal finish, hitting the crossbar on a 35-yard free kick on the last touch of the entertaining match. A few minutes earlier, Puebla’s Emiliano Garcia, a 15-year-old prospect wearing No.