1. I’m coming to Saturday’s game late having had a personal commitment on the night, but my in-depth analysis is this: they were fine.
D.C. United are struggling, but that has much more to do with the fact that they can’t score than them being a fundamentally bad team. There’s no starting-calibre No. 9 at Ben Olsen’s disposal with Patrick Mullins out, though he hasn’t scored yet this season himself after a hot finish to the 2016 campaign.
Things played out pretty much as you might expect, really; TFC had to work hard to break down a side that is far from a disaster at the back, but one goal always looked like being enough.