For Major League
Soccer TGIF and for its game of the week, with two of the leagues all around
rivalry and very well considered a Derby when these two titans meet. This time
DC United will travel to Talen Energy Stadium in the city of Brotherly Love Philadelphia
to face a renewed Union squad.
With last week the
lads of DCU Boss Ben Olsen doing the ultimate feat and defeating a New York Red
Bulls at home, this week they have another challenge to stop cold in its tracks
a surging Philadelphia squad playing a one of a kind football.
What a difference it
was for the Philadelphia Boys playing at home, with a good capacity crowd at Talen
Energy Stadium, making a big difference for the Union Boys by playing in front
of their home crowd and at the end displaying a wondrous game.
Don’t leave the DCU
chaps behind with their electrifying plays always making the Union Goalie Andrew
Blake, earning his pay all match long with a series of dangerous plays, that
were stopped cold by him and his effectively
positioned backfield.
Still this match was
one that saw a series of magnificent planned match between both squads’ Bosses,
as each one really looked all match long the opportunity to penetrate into each
other’s goals and the results nullified extraordinarily by these squad’s
goalies.
Showing off in this match both DCU Travis Worra having a field day
along with Union Andrew Blake, making spectacular saves and keeping this match
with a clean sheet, giving this match as a goalie a mano a mano.
A duel between these
squads as tense whenever they face one another, as DCU Luciano Acosta with a long-range
shoot and coming close to the post, giving the Union a scare, no later a play
from the locals that the post became the hero for the DC United.
As Alvaro
Saborio did his usual plays and coming close, do not discount one form the Union
Sebastien Le Toux that luck and finish were the ingredients missing in action
for the first score.
Time nearing its end
and this match despite having from both squads the initiative as well the
accuracy, the main characters being the keepers saving one danger after the other
but the effort was there. I do recognize the drive and fighting spirit both
squads gave in the field and this indeed can be a match of the week.
Very well the winners
at the end were the more than 17,000 in attendance who saw this match as a very
disputed and one of those you never forget for the resilience of both squad’s defensive
might and stinginess that prevented the opportune score.
Nothing written until
the main characters put their contributions and for the Union Boys, constantly
in the end knocking on the door with near misses and opportunity’s over Travis
Worra posts, doing the ultimate of efforts of not seeing himself defeated.
For one squad as the New
Philadelphia Union initial eleven out, the buck did not stop there and with
their Manager Jim Curtin constantly saw in his squad sheer perseverance paying
off at the end.
With a Sebastien le
Toux making a pass aimed to CJ Sapong covering hermetically and overzealously by
a DCU defender Steve Birnbaum, this was to be another close one for the visitors
until a high flying Richy Marquez pushing the ball for the lone score and the
winner.
Leaving the visiting
DC United coming from a week win at their home, this time they become immediate
resigned of being on the losing side and with time not being on their side as
the score came in injury time on the 92nd minute. The Union did the ultimate
of feats and netted a valuable win.
After all this was a
match were the both squads showed off their bitterness and much disputed
rivalry, very well how DCU Boss Ben Olsen saw an attitude meltdown from a not
so happy Luciano Acosta and the pushing and shoving between both squad’s was a
constant one. at the end that's the game and meltdowns that make a Derby so exciting.
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