Post Game: DC United 1, Chicago Fire 1

By: jon | March 29th, 2009

Like kissing your sister.

DC came out and dominated the first half, scored their goal, and went into halftime with a lead.

They came back out a different team, and were hurt by a mistake by backup keeper, Josh Wicks. Sloppy passing, poor shot selection, and questionable decisions by DC players led to the draw and to the feeling of disappointment that was evident in the crowd at RFK.

Speaking of the crowd, it as a little sparse. The loud side was taking care of business and standing for 90, but the quiet side was dead, and not very populated. Disappointing for a home opener. Do better next week, people.

Bryan Namoff. What were you doing? I counted at least 4 or 5 times where Namoff carried the ball way up into the attack and was caught in possession. I apologize to Bryan if Tommy was asking him to do that, but if not…c’mon.

Benny was fantastic, and the little episode with Blanco which isn’t being talked about anywhere was awesome. Basically, Blanco ran into Ben, and Ben pushed him off. Blanco then faked jab stepped around him (which made no sense), and then Ben shoulder charged him. He was already on a yellow, so I thought that was his Zidane-esque moment of madness, but the referee yelled at Blanco to stop diving. Hilarious.

I tried to twitter updates, but I can tell you right now, that isn’t going to happen. Sorry. Follow the DCUnited twitter updates, they get paid to not watch the game.

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• Sneakers O'Toole |  March 29th, 2009 at 9:10 am

  
  
  

  It is some kind of frustrating when you’re at the game vs. at home because you get to see all of the open guys on the wings that aren’t getting the ball.

  I thought Pontius looked fairly promising. He could have put a second goal in the net if he got the through ball instead of the double teamed emilio on one play.

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• spectre |  March 30th, 2009 at 4:44 am

  
  
  

  Didn’t get to see too much of the game. Love to tell you why in an email. Are you able to pull my email address and contact me Jon?

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• Jonny come lately |  March 30th, 2009 at 9:25 am

  
  
  

  The half that D.C. owned was far less promising than the half that Chicago owned.

  http://www.examiner.com/x-4910-Chicago-Fire-Examiner~y2009m3d30-Upon-further-review-DC-United-11-Chicago-Fire

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• Sneakers O'Toole |  March 30th, 2009 at 12:17 pm

  
  
  

  So, Arsenal and Barcelona win every game, no matter the score, because they create more chances?

  Both teams sucked and couldn’t get out of their own way for stretches of 20 minutes. Honestly, neither team deserved the one point they got.

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• jon |  March 30th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  
  
  

  spectre, I can’t. feel free to email me. jonfhoffman@gmail.com

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