Kryptonite came… again…
In the form of whatever game plan DC head coach Ben Olsen came up with in the form of a clunky, atonal, chaos-theory poster child of a 1-0 win for the Eastern Conference cellar dwellers. No, this is not the same DC United team that has wallowed in the basement of the east for this MLS season. But this also was not the time for a clunker to pop up on Atlanta United’s dossier for 2017.
Nevertheless, it did… on an own goal off the captain…
The first 30 minutes, Atlanta United looked engaged- as they tried to negotiate the odd confines of RFK Stadium and the chunky turf that goes with it.