D.C. United faces Atlanta United today at Audi Field, and the game comes at a strange moment. The Black-and-Red have lost two straight games despite feeling like their performances deserved more, and have had to stew on that for two weeks due to the international window. They face Atlanta (a team coming off of an odd result themselves) tonight, and then sit idle for another week before resuming the normal pattern of the season.
It’s the kind of game that might dictate the mood around the club for a good bit, making this game a deceptively important one despite coming so early in the season.