PSP photographer Paul Rudderow was on hand Saturday night as Philadelphia Union collapsed against the Columbus Crew and fell 2-3 in a heartbreaking loss. Here’s a look at what he saw.

The game started with such high hopes

Andrew Wenger with a strong push into the box

Vincent Nogueira gets past Bernardo Anor

Steve Clark had to make some early saves

Conor Casey settles in traffic

Carlos Valdes clears one from the back

Wenger takes a high ball on the chest

Zac MacMath was solid down at The River End

Ray Gaddis takes on Ben Speas

Ethan White works the ball up the middle

MacMath collects another ball

Casey almost gets one past Clark

Sebastien Le Toux with a nice cross

White controls and moves forward

Le Toux could not get past Clark

Clark takes the ball off of Amobi Okugo’s foot

Danny Cruz flies into the play

Cruz collects the Union’s first goal

With a little celebration from Fabinho

Nogs brings it up the wing

Cruz joins Nogueira on the attack

Wenger celebrates with Edu after scoreing the second goal

Then the wheels started falling off the cart…

And falling…

And falling

Wenger almost equalizes

Antoine Hoppenot is added to the mix

MacMath still had work to do

Pedro Ribeiro heads toward goal

It was not to be

For more photos, check out Paul’s Flickr page and feel free to leave comments.