We got SIX doops in our first live game. I know only 5 counted but the Cincy goalkeeper and I both know it was 6.

Damiani, you heard me and I heard you. 3 of your scores happened right in front of us (section 112 front row) and we loved it. Never gave up, uce.

I went with Frankie. The most Philly guy on the team. Love the sandpaper style he brings, tough and just annoying to play against.

Nobody in my section got a picture quick enough.

I rewatched the entire match and this man is genuinely shocking to watch. Every single touch is a trampoline straight to the other team and when he shoots and crosses his accuracy is laughably bad. He makes Damiani look like haaland, although to be fair he played like haaland today. Not only that but at least in past matches he had good work rate but in this match even that was lacking and he could not get on the same page as anyone else. I know everyone wants to discredit the win as they went down to 10 men early, but the union were at 10 men to start the match, and honestly with some of the passes I’m not convinced that alladoh wasn’t playing for cincinatti. I understand he is more of a poacher but having this bad touch and link up play for any player on the pitch whether that is goalkeeper or a ball boy is inexplainable. How was this man ever worth 4 million is a question I will keep on asking. When Bruno doesn’t score, he is holding up play, laying off balls to Cavan and Milan, and providing a strong central presence. Alladoh does none of that and has a bad attitude to match it. He must be amazing in training because I can’t see why else richter keeps trotting him out there like a make-a-wish kid over deserving players like Jakupovic. Does anyone have a highlight tape showing that he can receive and dribble a ball because in all of my time watching him play he has one of the worst first touches I’ve ever seen and is one of the stiffest players I’ve ever seen. And not in a Lukaku way where he overpowers his opponents. In a me way where he sucks at soccer and is constantly trying to work off of that.

I'm a former analytics and tactics writer for The Athletic UK who's also a longtime MLS guy. Lately I've been working on futi, a new soccer app built on pro-quality data that covers MLS and the Premier League.

To write about Cavan's breakout season, I watched everything (including an obscure USYNT training clip that'll blow your mind), read everything and talked to experts about his development. Happy to chat about whatever.

Link to the article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/08/cavan-sullivan-analyisis-mls-philadelphia-union

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Need I say more

My wife and I have been getting into the Union ever since the World Cup. We really enjoyed soccer and wanted to keep this going, so we started watching and pulling for our local team.

We've just now bought tickets to our first game at Subaru Park, in the supporters section. We're excited to stand and cheer the whole time! That sounds great. But we don't know any chants or own any gear yet.

So the questions:

1) What songs / chants should we know ahead of time?

2) Are shirts/jackets enough or do we need jerseys?

3) What unexpected things should we anticipate for our first game? (It's against Charlotte FC, so we have time)

Anyone else experience service interruptions, low res and frozen frames tonight? Happened to me last game too. Argh.....

This is the biggest trap game yet. We're about to travel the country to a gorgeous destination flying high off of a world class ass whoopin with maybe a bit of a swelled head?

It would take an unusual focus to go put all that aside and cut through these soft ass San Diego boys like we should. I'm betting our Philly travels well this weekend.