After the toothless display against Houston, many assumed Philly would spend last week working on how to get the ball from the back to the attacking third with more consistency and speed. If so, nobody saw it on Saturday.
PSP’s Mike Servedio has player ratings and analysis from the Union’s 2-2 draw at Chicago.
Good teams take positives from losses. Luckily for the Union, there were plenty of positives in Saturday’s loss to the Crew.
The Union have never played a better half than they played in the first half of their 1-0 win over New England on Saturday.
Barring the final moments of the match, there was a ton to like about the Union’s first performance of 2014. PSP looks at the individual and collective play from the season opener.
With little coming through the middle, the Union were left to dump cross after cross into a box patrolled by one of the biggest back lines in MLS. It didn’t work.
Two styles clashed on Saturday night, with both teams drawing a blank. But has a true Union “system” emerged? PSP has analysis and player ratings.
PSP writers’ roundtable review and ratings of the Philadelphia Union players at the midseason point of the 2013 season.
A comparison of how Union players are ranked in the Castrol Index with their rankings based upon the average of their postgame player ratings.
There was very little about which to smile in the Union’s 2-0 defeat against the Revs. Perhaps John Hackworth will shuffle his deck before Saturday’s showdown with Seattle.
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