It felt like D.C. United was on their way to a fairly frustrating loss to the Chicago Fire last night, with an attempted cross skipping off of Andy Najar’s foot and into the bottom corner of Bill Hamid’s goal. United had their chances, didn’t put them away, and were now down 2-0 away. Instead, they pushed for a way back into the match, and in the end three different substitutes contributed on plays that became goals as the Black-and-Red broke Fire hearts in a 2-2 draw.
It was...good? Bad? Let’s go with hard to get a read on, as United wouldn’t have had anyone to blame but themselves for losing, but also showed real character in fighting their way to a road draw (and then securing that draw, as opposed to letting it slip away as we saw in recent road games against New York City and Philadelphia).