Wayne Rooney opened his 2019 goal rating account for D.C. United at Audi Field in Week three, pouncing for his initial MLS score against visiting Real Salt Lake.
Rooney scored his initial 2 goals during a span of seven minutes. within the thirty-fourth minute he reborn a penalty kick awarded following Video Review, that determined Marcelo forest had stepped on the leg of Rooney’s associate, Paul Arriola, within the penalty space.
Then he broke charging goalkeeper Nick Rimando with 2 touches when statue maker Jara homeless RSL’s Aaron Herrera in his own [*fr1] and sent the Englishman an ideal diagonal ball to separate the defense.
Rooney followed that with a 3rd within the sixty-fifth minute on a feed from Junior Moreno following some exceptional D.C. interaction down the left.
In his second season with the Black-and-Red, Rooney entered weekday with one assist in 2019. In twenty appearances when his summer arrival last year, he became D.C.’s leading goal scorer with twelve, and added seven assists
