D.C. United’s Brad Smith will certainly miss out on the rest of the period with a knee injury experienced Friday evening, the most recent gut-punch for the reeling MLS club.
The Australian wing back will certainly go through cosmetic surgery to fix a torn ACL in his left knee as well as miss out on approximately 9 months, the group revealed Sunday.
The injury came the very same day United revealed Costs Hamid, the long time beginning goalkeeper, will certainly miss out on 2 to 3 months with a hand injury. Protector Andy Najar was a late scrape from the Philly video game due to a concealed injury.
Smith, 28, had actually shown up in 16 of 17 suits, beginning 14 as well as adding one help in his 5th MLS period. His specialist occupation started in 2013 with Premier Organization power Liverpool as well as has actually consisted of jobs with Swindon Community, Bournemouth as well as Cardiff City.
He belonged to Seattle’s 2019 champion group, yet with the Sounders deep on the left side as well as United seeking a substitute for Bundesliga-bound Kevin Paredes last winter months, D.C. got him for $750,000 generally appropriation cash.
At the midway factor of the period, United (5-10-2) rests in advance of just the Chicago Fire (4-10-5) in MLS’s 28-team standings. Going into Wednesday’s house video game versus the Columbus Staff (6-5-7), D.C. remains in a 1-5-2 rut. Because period, it has actually yielded 24 objectives– greater than 9 groups have actually permitted all year.