Hany Mukhtar converted a penalty at the 11th minute of the second half for the second half for the 10 man from Nashville SC, who beat the Philadelphia Union 1-0 on Saturday evening.
Nashville (12-4-5, 41 points) played almost the last half hour-more time stopping-with 10 men but found a dramatic winner by Mukhtar, who marked after the video review determined that he had been removed in the box by Olwethu Makhanya of the union.
The victory of the victory of Nashville in four games and their undefeated sequence at 12 league games (8-0-4).
Philadelphia (12-5-4, 40 points) has dropped consecutive matches since his 11-game sequence is undefeated with a 1-0 defeat against the Columbus crew on June 29.
The two teams seeking to break a goalless draw in the second half, Jonathan Perez of Nashville caught the Union’s Tai Baribo with a high -minute boot. Referee Rubiel Vazquez immediately showed a red card because the nashville ranks were reduced to 10 men.
The union almost enjoyed the 88th minute after winning a free kick, but the long -term effort of Kai Wagner found the woodwork.
This finally opened an opportunity for Nashville in the depths of the time to stop, while Mukhtar confused a penalty prior to the Guardian of the Union Andre Blake for what turned out to be the winner of the match. It was the ninth goal of the Mukhtar season.
He also improved the Nashville home record at 7-1-3 and fired the club behind FC Cincinnati for the head of the Eastern Conference. The union saw their record away drop to 6-4-1.
Joe Willis ended the evening with two stops for Nashville for his seventh white sheet of the season. Blake ended the evening with two stops for the union.
Cavan Sullivan, fifteen, obtained his first career start for the union, making him the second biggest player in MLS history to record a very first start in a championship match. Only Freddy Adu, who was 14 years old when he started a match in 2004 for DC United, was younger than Sullivan during his first departure.
– field level media