MLS Midweek: July 26, 2017

Just one midweek game this time, as the Philadelphia Union host the Columbus Crew SC. Zack Steffen and John McCarthy draw the starts in goal. Philadelphia opened in the twentieth minute with an Ilsinho goal, passed from C.J. Sapong. In the thirty-first minute, Giliano Wijnaldum of the Union had a yellow card for his foul. Columbus went down to ten men in the thirty-fifth minute with a straight red card for Jonathan Mensah's denial of an obvious goal-scoring opportunity. The Crew saw a yellow card for dissent given to Lalas Abubakar in the thirty-sixth minute. Philadelphia's Raymon Gaddis had a yellow card for a thirty-ninth minute foul. The Union added on in the sixty-sixth minute with a Sapong goal. Columbus went down to nine men in the seventy-sixth minute when Abubakar took a second yellow card for a foul. Philadelphia extended the lead in the eighty-first minute with a Marcus Epps goal, made possible by Sapong and Ilsinho. This made it 3-0, the final, with the man of the match being Sapong.

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