Sort of Right about Late Game Goals
After two late game equalizers, I decided to look at the season thus far and see if there are any patterns to when DC United allow a goal. Through thirteen games, DC United have three shutouts. They have eight one goal games and two games with two goals. There are no games in which United have allowed more than two goals. In the multiple goal games, the first resulted in both goals during the first half and the in second, both goals were tallied in the second half. No pattern there.
The eight one goal games include four 1-1 ties. In two of those games, the goal came after the 85th minute. The lone loss of the season included the go ahead goal in minute 84.
Not quite sure what to make of it yet, but I am going to keep track of this for a while and see if anything develops. It is still a little weird and distressing that of twelve goals on the season, four have come after minute 83.
2 comments:
Check out the MLS Stats page for a breakdown of GS and GA by 15 minute period of the game. I ran an article on it bemoaning the second half production of the team (especially between minutes 75-90) so it is nice to see someone paying attention to the other side of the ledger.
Not knowing that was there, I just went to box scores and created my own table which I have included in the right hand column. DC sure seems to get scored on during 2 of the 6 15 minute increments.
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