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In a match where we were missing Emilio, Moreno, Namoff, Fred, Vide, and Peralta, a loss wasn't
necessarily surprising. I guess the bright side is that we escaped without any more injuries! Also,
I saw tonight that we've got some young players with a lot of heart, and that's got to count for
something, even if it didn't earn us any points.
I was wrong when I suggested earlier that DCU would probably be taking the CCL seriously, since
they had rested Emilio and Fred for the Dallas match. Instead we sent out an even weaker team
tonight, that included the reappearance of Zach Wells! Goff says it's because Crayton had a sore
knee, I'm not so sure.
After 60 minutes of this match, I was all ready to come on here and say I was wrong about wanting
to punt the CCL. A goalless draw would have been a wonderful result. But as is typical with this
club, we let up 2 soft goals off of shotty defending. And now we're staring up from the bottom of a
fully stacked group.
In a season that's had its fair share of ups and downs, we've finally got something to show for it!
Maybe a title in the US Open Cup wasn't necessarily the goal for this season, but it's certainly an
accomplishment the team should be proud of, and most importantly, its great that United has fought
its way back into the international picture.
A tie at home against a lesser Western Conference opponent certainly should feel like a loss.
Somehow for me though, this one doesn't. Maybe it's because we outplayed Dallas, to the point where
I think we really deserved the win. This felt like it should have ended at 2-1. Oh well. I guess
we'll just have to steal back those extra two points when we play them again on the road in two
weeks.
As frustrating as it was to watch this team on a roller coaster ride that had its share of ups and
downs the past few months, I would trade the past three weeks for that roller coaster. I'm not
going to argue that we deserved to win this match, because clearly we didn't, but it sure made it
hard for us to have a chance when we suffered from the worst display of officiating that we've seen
all year.
