Under first-year coach Hernán Losada, D.C. United is an ambitious bunch. The entertainment value is high, and the goals, such as Saturday’s lasers in Atlanta, are often of outrageous quality.
United, though, is probably a year from contending for an MLS championship, and because it retains simpler goals this fall of making the playoffs, not everything is going to work as planned.
The latest glitch came at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where two rasping goals in the last 20 minutes were offset by defensive cracks in the second half during a 3-2 defeat before 42,608 spectators.
It stopped a three-game unbeaten streak, bookended by defeats to Atlanta, and dropped D.