We End As We Began

Our season started with a bad loss in the Pacific Northwest, we were eliminated from our last possible competition with a bad loss in the Pacific Northwest.  Now we have 5 meaningless games with the only thing interesting to track is where we land on the bad offensive seasons in league history and if we win the Wooden Spoon.

The one highlight from Saturday is Cole Bassett getting a third goal involvement (this time an assist) in three games.  Its good to start seeing the old Bassett a bit.  Otherwise its pretty much the same story once again.  The winning goal was very ugly.  Our big offseason DP signing Maxso completely misplays a header.  Abubakar gets beat to the follow-up header, and then its off to the races.  Maxso can't catch up (either can Danny Wilson, but Wilson couldn't catch Valderrama "running") so our big midseason international signing Ilic has to make the save and he makes a weak effort at it, leading to an easy goal.  A lot of wasted money and international slots on that sequence.

As far as the rest of the season goes we need one more goal to tie 2013 DC United's record for the lowest goal total in a 34 game season, two to avoid owning part of that record.  We're already outside the 10 worst seasons in league history at least, but we need 9 more points to avoid the worst season in club history.  We are currently tied on points, winds, and goal differential with Toronto FC for the Wooden Spoon, but they have the edge on us on the third tiebreaker goals scored by 3.  So right now we're in last place, but we have a game in hand on TFC, which is the Wednesday makeup game against Vancouver.  If we lose then we'll have the "lead" in the Wooden Spoon, if we draw or win TFC will have it.