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Open Cup Matchday Preview: DC United

There once was a Bull that was Red

And from it results at home fled

But an Open Cup came

DC came in its lane

“Please play sexy” said Struber’s bald head

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The Open Cup is back! Rejoice, bring the champagne, renew your streaming subscriptions. For the first time since 2018 the Red Bulls find themselves in the second round of the historic tournament, and find themselves a familiar MLS opponent in DC. United. The capital club are technically still among New York’s chief rivals, contesting the Atlantic Cup, and despite there now being a lack of real geographical proximity between the two clubs, meetings are often still ridden with intensity and fierceness.