D.C. United had a 2017 season to forget. Some key players failed to perform, others got hurt, and a couple did both. The team’s mentality, front to back, was a problem all year long. While the Black-and-Red did do a good job in the summer transfer window, the season was simply too far gone to save by the time August rolled around. Let’s take a brief look back at what was a miserable slog from start to finish.
How did the 2017 season go? Badly, from beginning to end. Three straight shutouts to start, three straight shutout losses at home as the first third of the year wrapped up, a brutal 1W-1D-8L stretch that included six straight defeats during the summer, and a 1W-1D-5L run to end the season after the morale boost from a wild deadline day wore off.