What slump?

I'll be honest. I didn't think we would win that one. A draw seemed like it would have been a good result given our recent schedule clog and I figured the emotional battery would be low, but SKC looked great out there. Again, un-clinical finishing was the story, except that we actually put more than one goal in, in cluding an actual run of play goal that looked pretty good! Nice stuff. Hopefully the USOC win sparks them to even bigger and better things. I'd love it if winning trophies turned out to be contageous.

One of the best things about that game was the resturn of Graham Zusi. He had an excellent match after a few weeks of poor performance.

I also though Markovic had a really good game, even if the ratings didn't work out great for him. It seems like we were all a bit nervous about depth on our back line, particularily at CB, but now it looks like that's for sure our deepest spot. Hopefully this defense can anchor us to another Championship this year.

Here's some plater ratings from the game.

DC United
Bill Hamid	5.4
Brandon McDonald	4.7
Chris Korb	4.3
Emilano Dudar	4.3
Mike Chabla	4.3
Nick DeLeon	6.4
Perry Kitchen	5.0
Danny Cruz	4.3
Andy Najar	5.7
Branko Boskovic	4.3
Marceio Saragosa	4.0
Chris Pontius	4.7
Josh Wolff	4.3
Long Tan	4.7
Team Average	4.8
Sporting Kansas City
Jimmy Nielsen	5.0
Aurelien Collin	5.4
Neven Markovic	4.7
Matt Besler	5.4
Michael Harrington	4.7
Graham Zusi	7.8
Michael Thomas	5.0
Roger Espinoza	4.7
Julio Cesar	4.3
Paolo Nagamura	4.7
Oriol Rossel	4.3
Kei Kamara	6.1
CJ Sapong	4.0
Teal Bunbury	7.1
Team Average	5.2

Grats to Zusi for a stellar game. Now we'll see if he can do anything in Mexico... I'm still not sure he's got the skillset needed to excel at the international level, but I'd love to be proved wrong.