D.C. United’s recent history against the Montreal Impact has been pretty unpleasant. The Impact ended United’s 2016 - which saw the Black-and-Red charging into the playoffs on a ferocious goalscoring run - with a thud, coming to RFK and walking out 4-2 winners in a game that wasn’t even that close. Since the notorious “one shot one kill” 1-0 win in Montreal, United has gone 0W-2D-3L against IMFC, scoring only four times in the process.
However, this may be a good time to fix that. The Impact will be without their one utterly indispensable player, Ignacio Piatti, who picked up an adductor strain in Tuesday’s Voyageurs Cup final.