MLS wrap: DC, Colorado snap streaks

Comeback kid Charlie Davies inspired DC United to a 2-1 win over the Seattle Sounders, while the Colorado Rapids stole a comeback victory.

Two losses in succession had shrouded United’s MLS title

aspirations in doubt, but they began the match at Washington’s Robert F Kennedy

Memorial Stadium with plenty of vigour.They received the reward for their efforts when Davies’

cut-back from the right gave strike partner Josh Wolff the easiest of finishes

to put the home side up 1-0.The advantage was doubled on 52 minutes when the roles were

almost identically reversed, with Wolff this time finding an onrushing

Davies for a simple tap in.It was the sixth goal in seven MLS games for Davies, having

only returned to competitive action this season after 17 months on the

sidelines during his recovery from a serious car accident.Brad Evans pulled one back from the penalty spot for the

Sounders but – with United goalkeeper Bill Hamid otherwise impassable – United

hung on to arrest their two-game losing streak and move to fifth in the Eastern

Conference.

In Houston, reigning MLS champions Colorado appeared briefly

destined for their fourth loss of the season when Colin Clark’s left-foot

strike from inside the area handed Dynamo a 1-0 lead in the 72nd minute.But the advantage was to last just three minutes.Scottish midfielder Jamie Smith’s free kick from deep and

wide was horribly misjudged by Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Smith, whose attempts to

scramble back to his line were futile.And Smith’s folly was compounded when Scott Palguta stabbed

home in a crowded penalty area to make it 2-1, with Colorado goalkeeper Matt Pickens showing his

opposite number how it was done when he saved late from Alex Dixon.The victory snapped a four-game winless streak for the Rapids

and moved them to second on the Western Conference table, while Houston remain third in the Eastern Conference.Seattle’s loss and the Rapids’ win drops them to fourth in

the Western Conference.