The New York Red Bulls lost their first match of the season at Sports Illustrated Stadium, 2-1, to D.C. United.
João Peglow scored a first-half brace for D.C., while Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scored for New York to draw within one in the second half.
"We must talk about the first half, and we killed ourselves in the moment when is we have the ball," Head Coach Sandro Schwarz said."Many situations where we easily lose the ball, then not [have] the energy in the highest level in our counter-press, our rest defense is not in a good organization, and then the goals which we concede. This is then big mistakes from our side, from the whole team. It's not only individual, from the whole team."
New York's goal came off a corner, when Felipe Carballo headed the ball back in the box and Emil Forsberg flicked the ball to forward Choupo-Moting, who ripped a shot off the bottom of the crossbar and into the back of the net.
Choupo-Moting tallied his fourth goal of the season. He has now tallied a goal contribution in four consecutive games at Sports Illustrated Stadium.
"I think we need more energy in this game, we need a lot more energy," Carballo said.
Forsberg tallied his second MLS assist of the season and the seventh of his MLS career. The Swedish international has now recorded four goal contributions at Sports Illustrated Stadium this season.
Carballo recorded his second MLS assist of the season.
"I think everyone has to take responsibility and improve themselves," Carlos Coronel said. "We cannot say one player played well today. I think the whole group was not good enough. This is what we have to improve both individually and as a team. We have to keep more of the ball, show more in the press and we'll analyze tomorrow and find solutions."
New York will remain at Sports Illustrated Stadium to face off against CF Montréal on Saturday, April 26 for Kids Night presented by Hackensack Meridian Health.
"When we talk about the second half, then we tried everything," Schwarz said. "We had some moments where we can also create more chances when we are especially on the side and our crosses and our aggressive runs and box position. But this is what we have to learn. And the good point is that we have next week directly next home game to show our principles at the beginning till the end."
Kickoff is set for 4:30 p.m. ET with coverage on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV in English and Spanish and New York Red Bulls Radio presented by Sports Illustrated in English via the New York Red Bulls app and NewYorkRedBulls.com.
