Analysis & player ratings: Union 2-1 Impact
The Union lost their shape and again struggled through the midfield, but were saved by Captain Courageous, and 2012 MLS All Star, Carlos Valdes.
The Union lost their shape and again struggled through the midfield, but were saved by Captain Courageous, and 2012 MLS All Star, Carlos Valdes.
PSP photographer Paul Rudderow was on hand for Saturday nights Philadelphia Union 2-1 victory over the expansion Montreal Impact at PPL Park, which came from a dramatic stoppage time winner from Carlos Valdes.
The Union were bullied by Sporting Kansas City and the Montreal Impact will have noticed. Can Philly adjust their open style of play as opponents look to beat them up? UPDATE: Michael Farfan out with groin injury.
Andrew Wenger might make a habit of this: He’s PSP’s Philadelphia Player of the Week after scoring in his first start for Montreal.
Andrew Wenger snared this week’s Philadelphia player of the week award with his first career professional goal to grab Montreal’s MLS win.
Andrew Wenger scored his first professional goal to give Montreal their first win in MLS, while Bobby Convey created the game-winner in the day’s biggest match. PSP rounds up how they and other Philly area players fared in the pros this past week.
Season preview time? PSP checks in with a look at Philadelphia Union’s conference and projects the Union to finish in 7th place.
Montreal fleeced Chivas, gave Brian Ching and Houston the ultimate boot to the face, took Justin Mapp off the Union’s hands, and made some really good expansion draft picks. PSP thinks Montreal might be the new evil geniuses in MLS.
Impact interested in Adu ahead of today’s Expansion Draft. Reaction to the new Union kit. Some idiotic Englishmen talk MLS. WPS troubles deepen. Blatter says racism row is over and it wasn’t his fault. More news, including link to Expansion Draft live stream.
Former Reading United star Zarek Valentin was left protected. PSP looks at him and and other big names available to Montreal in Wednesday’s expansion draft, as well as draft projections and a look back at the Union’s own expansion draft in 2009.
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