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Ben Olsen doesn't like to make things easy for us. His switch from the 4-1-4-1 or 4-3-3 setup he used in the first two preseason games to something more like an empty bucket 4-4-2 in the third one has forced us to make some decisions about who fits in where on our D.C. United preseason depth-chart-in-progress. So we made a couple judgment calls and got some interesting results (see Francois) that almost certainly won't stand come the end of the Carolina Challenge Cup in Charleston, S.C. in two weeks. Some of the chart is bound to be misleading as Olsen tries different players out at different positions (see Arnaud and Espindola) or on different sides of the field (see DeLeon and Porter) At any rate, here's where things stand three games into United's 2014 preseason.
GK |
App | St | Min | ||||||||
| Bill Hamid | 2 | 1 | 90 | ||||||||
| Andrew Dykstra | 2 | 1 | 90 | ||||||||
| Joe Willis | 2 | 90 | |||||||||
RB |
App | St | Min |
CB |
App | St | Min |
LB |
App | St | Min |
| Sean Franklin | 3 | 3 | 152 | Bobby Boswell | 3 | 3 | 152 | Taylor Kemp | 3 | 1 | 120 |
| Jalen Robinson | 3 | 118 | Jeff Parke | 3 | 3 | 152 | Christian Fernandez | 2 | 2 | 94 | |
| Steve Birnbaum | 3 | 118 | 2 | 57 | |||||||
| Conor Shanosky | 3 | 118 | |||||||||
RM/RF |
App | St | Min |
CM |
App | St | Min |
LM/LF |
App | St | Min |
| Christiano Francois | 2 | 77 | Perry Kitchen | 3 | 3 | 152 | Nick DeLeon | 2 | 2 | 90 | |
| Nick DeLeon | 1 | 1 | 58 | Jared Jeffrey | 3 | 2 | 138 | Kyle Porter | 2 | 79 | |
| Kyle Porter | 1 | 1 | 45 | Davy Arnaud | 2 | 2 | 90 | Davy Arnaud | 1 | 1 | 56 |
| Fabian Espindola | 1 | 1 | 45 | 2 | 73 | Victor Munoz* | 1 | 45 | |||
| Victor Munoz* | 2 | 51 | |||||||||
| Lewis Neal | 1 | 24 | |||||||||
CAM/ST2 |
App | St | Min |
CF/ST |
App | St | Min | ||||
| Luis Silva | 3 | 1 | 118 | Conor Doyle | 3 | 1 | 118 | ||||
| Collin Martin | 1 | 45 | Eddie Johnson | 2 | 2 | 107 | |||||
| Fabian Espindola | 1 | 1 | 62 | ||||||||
Not Appearing |
Michael Seaton | 2 | 57 | ||||||||
| Chris Pontius | |||||||||||
| Chris Korb | |||||||||||
| Nana Attakora | * not yet under contract | ||||||||||
| Casey Townsend | |||||||||||
As always, use the comments to share your thoughts on the chart as it stands and your predictions on where it will end up.
