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Oh, to have been a fly on the window inside Joey Saputo’s car during his ride home from Saputo Stadium Saturday night.

The Impact owner is not a happy man.

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The stage was set up perfectly for the Impact on an absolutely gorgeous, late-summer night in front of a sellout crowd of 20,801. During the national anthems, two fathers a couple of rows in front of the press box were standing with their young sons sitting on their shoulders. It was the type of summer night when longtime memories can be made for a young boy spending some special time with his dad at a soccer game. The “beautiful game.”

But this night turned out to be ugly for the Impact … very ugly after Abu Danladi scored in the 89th minute to give Minnesota United a 3-2 victory.

If those young boys didn’t know much about Minnesota United before the game, their fathers might have told them the expansion team arrived at Saputo Stadium with a 1-9-2 road record, had allowed the most goals in Major League Soccer and had a minus-21 goal differential. Minnesota’s overall record was 7-15-5 and the club had to fly across Canada and play on only two days of rest after losing 3-0 to the Whitecaps Wednesday night in Vancouver.