Conditions seemed ideal for United to get on the right track, but it didn’t work out that way.

D.C. United won again on Saturday evening, running their unbeaten streak to five matches.

For the first time since last September, D.C. United won a game—and did so convincingly, routing FC Dallas 4-1 at RFK Stadium Friday evening.

It’d be easy to write off D.C. United’s scoreless home draw with FC Dallas on Saturday night as a disappointment — after all, the team certainly could have used the three points, especially when it seemed the only thing standing in their way was the hands of Dallas goalkeeper Kevin Hartman. But the defensive effort provided by the team — especially on the heels of an April in which they allowed four goals three times and three goals once — was impressive enough for head coach Ben Olsen and most of the 11,504 on hand at RFK Stadium.

D.C. United’s wide open style of play came back to bite them on Saturday when they gave up three goals in the second half. In doing so they snatched a draw from the jaws of victory, earning themselves a 3-3 tie on an otherwise lovely night at RFK. After scoring early in the first half and adding another goal just before the halftime whistle, United looked fully in control after another score by Luciano…

After the final whistle of Saturday’s game against the Colorado Rapids, DC United walked off the field frustrated. Settling for a 1-1 tie, United failed to get a win for the fourth game in a row in league play. Amidst unequivocally their worst stretch of the season, the Black-and-Red have seemed punchless, lethargic, and disjointed. In these dark days, pessimism tends to take root. Looking ahead to Wednesday’s U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal against Red…

It was a weekend of fortune for the nation’s soccer fans as the United States defeated arch-rival Mexico to earn CONCACAF’s first entry into the 2006 World Cup. For fans in the DC area, however, the celebrations were muted as their own United reverted to their early season offensive impotence, falling to the Colorado Rapids 1-0. The deciding score came in the 22nd minute when an attacking Jean Phillipe Peguero drew Nick Rimando out…

DC United let one get away last night, losing to FC Dallas 4-1 on penalties in US Open Cup play at the soccer complex in Germantown, Maryland. United had hoped to advance to the Open Cup semifinals for the third time in five years, and appeared to be in control, up 1-0 in the final minute as Freddy Adu sliced deep into the Dallas defense and laid a pass off to an open Brian Carroll…