{"id":802261,"date":"2026-05-17T06:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802261\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:12:17","slug":"match-report-philadelphia-union-1-1-columbus-crew-the-philly-soccer-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802261\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: Philadelphia Union 1 \u2013 1 Columbus Crew \u2013 The Philly Soccer Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"351\">The Philadelphia Union returned to Subaru Park tonight looking to steady themselves against a Columbus Crew side sliding in the wrong direction. While the Crew arrived in Chester having dropped three straight league matches and leaking goals at an alarming rate, the Union are searching for consistency of their own after a turbulent midweek loss in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"353\" data-end=\"990\">Head coach Bradley Carnell responded with two changes to his starting XI. Andr\u00e9 Blake returned in goal after missing Wednesday\u2019s match, bringing leadership and stability back to the back line. In front of him, Ben Bender slotted in at left back alongside Olwethu Makhanya and Geiner Martinez at center back, and Nathan Harriel at right back. across the defense. Newly named Haitian World Cup midfielder Danley Jean Jacques partnered Jovan Luki\u0107 in central midfield, while Cavan Sullivan replaced Jeremy Rafanello in the attack alongside Indiana Vassilev. Up top, Bruno Damiani and Milan Iloski were tasked with leading the front line as the Union looked to continue their scoring ways after netting three on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"353\" data-end=\"990\">After another shaky defensive start put them behind early, the Boys in Blue fought back through Iloski\u2019s second-half equalizer to earn a hard-fought 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How The Match Unfolded<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Second Half<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Three Takeaways<\/p>\n<p><strong>PSP\u2019s <\/strong><b>Three Points\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"143\"><strong>A Tale of Two Halves: <\/strong>The Union looked a different team for the final 30 minutes. Where were they for the first 60 minutes?<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"143\"><strong>It is time to bench Bruno Damiani:\u00a0<\/strong>I would rather see Alladoh and Anello get more starting time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"143\"><strong>Lackluster<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Why does it seem that only Sullivan and Iloski (amongst the starters) brought it throughout the second half?\u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Lineups<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Philadelphia Union (4-2-2-2):\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1148\" data-end=\"1180\">Andr\u00e9 Blake, Ben Bender, Olwethu Makhanya, Geiner Martinez, Nathan Harriel, Danley Jean Jacques, Jovan Luki\u0107 (Agustin Anello 46\u2032), Indiana Vassilev, Cavan Sullivan, Milan Iloski, Bruno Damiani (Ezekiel Alladoh 65\u2032).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1148\" data-end=\"1180\"><strong>Substitutes not used: <\/strong>Andrew Rick, Finn Sundstrom, Olivier Mbaizo, Philippe Ndinga, Alejandro Bedoya, Jeremy Rafanello, Stas Korzeniowski.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Columbus Crew (4-4-2)<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Schulte, Steven Moreira, Sean Zawadzki, Rudy Camacho, Mohamed Farsi (Andr\u00e9s Herrera 66\u2032), Max Arfsten, S\u00e9kou Bangoura (Amar Sejdi\u0107 80\u2032), Andre Gomes (Dylan Chambost 67\u2032), Hugo Picard, D\u00e1niel Gazdag (Taha Habroune 80\u2032), Diego Rossi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Substitutes not used:<\/strong> Nicholas Hagen, C\u00e9sar Ruvalcaba, Evgen Cheberko, Owen Presthus, Nariman Akhundzada<\/p>\n<p><b>Scoring Summary:<\/b><br \/>COL \u2013 Hugo Picard 10\u2032<br \/>PHI \u2013 Milan Iloski (Agustin Anello) 70\u2032 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>D<\/b><b>isciplinary Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>PHI \u2013 Ben Bender (caution) 9\u2019 <br \/>PHI \u2013 Milan Iloski (caution) 26\u2019\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 COL \u2013 Rudy Camacho (caution) 30\u2019<br \/>PHI \u2013 Olwethu Makhanya (caution) 45 + 1\u2032<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Union returned to Subaru Park tonight looking to steady themselves against a Columbus Crew side sliding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":802262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-802261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116588442069157045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}