Forward Angelo Rodriguez's breakthrough goal gave a shorthanded Minnesota United side a second half lead, but playing their first game since August 25, the Loons were unable to hold on and suffered a discouraging one-goal setback, 2-1, on the road to D.C. United on Wednesday.
After Rodriguez's first MLS goal granted MNUFC a 1-0 lead in the 47th minute, Minnesota was undone twice in a three-minute span and that shift in momentum proved to be too much to come back from in its first-ever visit to D.C. and Audi Field.
"I thought our game plan was good and I thought we set up well," Head Coach Adrian Heath said.