As it enters its 20th season, Major League Soccer is still looking for a brand-boosting breakthrough in the annual continental competition
It’s been a mixed week for Major League Soccer’s hopes in the Concacaf Champions League after the quarter-final first legs saw the Montreal Impact grab a very credible 2-2 draw in Mexico against Pachuca, while the last remaining US representative, DC United, were heavily beaten by Costa Rican side Alajuelense on Thursday night.
DC, who’d managed a near-flawless qualifying campaign as part of last year’s dramatic turnaround in playing fortunes, had been seeded to avoid the Mexican club sides who tend to dominate the later stages of this competition, but any hopes they had of an easier passage to the semi-finals were dashed by a 5-2 loss that started with a 14th-minute penalty conceded by stand-in keeper Andrew Dykstra. Things only got worse from there.
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