Philadelphia Union vs. D.C. United - Match #30 - Gamethread

by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 6:01 PM EDT in Game Day

After managing a draw in a huge road fixture at Sporting Kansas City, the Philadelphia Union (9-7-13) will play host to D.C United (9-8-11) and depending on the result tonight, the Union could find themselves as high as 2nd place in the Eastern Conference and as low as 5th place.. Kickoff at PPL Park is scheduled for 8:06:30 PM ET.

If you have not already, be sure to check out the following preview from The Brotherly Game and SB Nation staff: [Ben's Match Preview] [Kevin McCauley's Preview for SB Nation Soccer]. D.C. perspective: [Black And Red United]

Broadcast Information: ESPN2 and ESPN3.com nationwide (Adrian Healey, John Harkes), ESPN Deportes (Richard Mendez, Giovanni Savarese) and ESPN Deportes Radio (Jorge Ramos, Hernan Pereyra) nationally, with coverage beginning at 7:00 PM Eastern / TSN2 (ESPN2 feed) in Canada

D.C. United starting XI: Hamid; Kitchen, White, McDonald, Burch; Najar, Simms, King, da Luz; De Rosario, Wolff

D.C. United bench: Brettschneider, Quaranta, Ngwenya, Morsink, Woolard, Korb, Willis

Philadelphia Union starting XI: MacMath; G. Farfan, Califf, Valdes, Williams; M. Farfan, Carroll, Okugo, Torres; Paunovic, Le Toux

Philadelphia Union bench: Harrison, Nakazawa, Tait, Adu, McInerney, Mapp, Pfeffer

Our staff will give live comments and reactions throughout the game, as well. Go Union! DOOP!

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I’m predicting a 3-2 Union victory in a very open, fast paced game. Also, Mwanga will break his goal scoring drought.

by sjm003 on Sep 29, 2011 7:12 PM EDT reply actions

Ixnay on the Mwanga prediction….

by sjm003 on Sep 29, 2011 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions

John Harkes in the booth. Kill me.

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:03 PM EDT reply actions

LE TOUX!

Union take the early lead!

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:12 PM EDT reply actions

good pressure and passing in the first few here. lets keep it up.

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by kyleshank on Sep 29, 2011 8:16 PM EDT reply actions

SEBA AGAIN!

2-0!

“Sebastian Le Toux will score two!” – Adrian Healey

Punny.

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:24 PM EDT reply actions

Michael Fah-fan, John Harkes?

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:24 PM EDT reply actions

wait was that the AT&T Flash Mob dance?

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:25 PM EDT reply actions

I don’t know, but we need an animated gif of that dance. It was an inspired moment.

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by 3DLink on Sep 29, 2011 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Fantastic pressure by the Union

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:27 PM EDT reply actions

De Rosario gonna De Rosario

2-1

And having started an hour later, this game already has more goals than the Flyers game.

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:31 PM EDT reply actions

clearly that game needs more shoot outs

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by 3DLink on Sep 29, 2011 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Taylor Twellman is on the Le Toux for MVP campaign

let me say this. LeToux deserves to be in MVP talk as much as DeRo. both did nothing for early on season now leading their teams to playoffs

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:36 PM EDT reply actions

Paunovic certainly is not lacking any confidence

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:38 PM EDT reply actions

well that was just disappointing

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by 3DLink on Sep 29, 2011 8:38 PM EDT reply actions

Najar ties the game at two

Terrible defending.

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by Justin F. on Sep 29, 2011 8:39 PM EDT reply actions

Ew no pressure at all. Oi. At least Le Toux looks good. As a side note we won our first FIFA game against Houston 4-1 heh.

by J. Wil on Sep 29, 2011 8:40 PM EDT reply actions

Very entertaining game...

though somewhat for the wrong reasons.

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by Scott Kessler on Sep 29, 2011 8:58 PM EDT reply actions

1st half reactions

Yeah!
Doop!
Damn
Are u fucking kidding me!
More to follow

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by JimmyK on Jul 21, 2011 7:21 PM EDT

by Talon Talent on Sep 29, 2011 9:00 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

What I’d like to see in the second half is the play go through Torres more. We hit hard and fast first half, I think a more controlled game second half would benefit us the most. Thoughts?

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by JimmyK on Jul 21, 2011 7:21 PM EDT

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