Here’s what I appreciate most about Minnesota United’s 2-0 defeat at Dallas Saturday: it played out like a normal soccer game.
I’m not celebrating or anything – the team I support lost and failed to score a goal – but given the context, Saturday’s match on the road at FC Dallas was important.
Here’s why: this exciting thing happened in the first half – the other team did not score for several minutes. The clock kept ticking – past that three-minute mark (see Atlanta), the four-minute mark (see New England), then even past the 18-minute mark (our previous record against Colorado) – and the game remained scoreless.