Charlotte FC will try to avoid a second straight loss to a struggling opponent when they visit D.C. United on Saturday in their final away match of the MLS regular season.

Charlotte (17-13-2, 53 points) already has qualified for its third consecutive postseason following a MLS record-tying nine-match league winning streak that stretched from mid-July to mid-September.

But The Crown followed that with a pair of defeats, including a shocking 4-1 loss at home last weekend to already-eliminated CF Montreal.

Charlotte defender Adilson Malanda's early red card transformed the match in the visitors' favor. Even so, there's a feeling that the reduction in numbers alone shouldn't have led to such a lopsided defeat.

"We were down to 10 men, but it's a little bit of a wake-up call, that even team

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