Barring any last minute set backs, the team that will trot out onto the field at RFK Stadium for D.C. United will include eleven familiar faces. That’s not too shocking, United, after an early exit from the playoffs in 2016, decided to keep the core of the team together in the offseason. Only six new players were brought in, and none of them figure to be be immediate starters.
That said, should head coach Ben Olsen use the same lineup that he did in the preseason finale against the Philadelphia Union, two of those familiar faces will be at new positions for the Black-and-Red.