The above chalkboard is from Saborio's United debut against the Union where he completed just 15 passes, three of which came from the center circle as kick offs. Those touches inside the box? Those are his three shots, with one goal to credit.

Prior to his arrival, DC United's offensive output looked like this:

24 goals scored in 22 games.

1.09 G/90, good for 18th in MLS

Our xG model had them second to last at 1.01 xG.

They had taken a total of 226 team shots, good for 16th in MLS

Of those 22 games played, they managed to score more than one goal only seven times and had been shut out four times. In other words, their offense bad. Real bad. And in Saborio they get a respectable 3.07 xG added to their side (higher now since that stat didn't account for his showing against PHI last Sunday). And although it was against a pretty lowly Union squad, DC managed to put up 15 shots in Saborio's debut.

What about RSL in all this? Sadly, due to injuries and lack of playing time there aren't enough chalkboards (read: games started or games with significant minutes) in 2015 for Luis Silva. He's only started four games and that's too small of a sample size to work off of for this year, but last season he was 46th in the league in xG+xA per 90 minutes, at 0.45.

All that really matters for this year and the next is to see how DC United incorporate their new striker and how to get the most of out of him (see: chances and goals) to hopefully lift this United side to another trophy. As for RSL, it's going to be a wait and see kind of thing for the next 2-3 years to evaluate how Jeff Cassar reconstructs the team into more of his vision than predecessor Jason Kreis'.