Daily News | Another Philly team, this time the Union, loses to another Philly expatriate
Los Angeles FC goalkeeper John McCarthy, a North Catholic and La Salle alumnus, makes a save against the Union's José Andrés Martínez in a penalty shootout in the MLS Cup.LOS ANGELES — Maybe John McCarthy will take a congratulatory phone call from Chas McCormick. Hometown heroes turned all-time Philly killers, they can play golf together and compare notes about their respective places in local sports villainy.
fans, he’d been a Union backup, a terrific one, a fan favorite, specializing in ... wait for it … penalty-kick stops. Earlier, the Union were two minutes from a title when a world superstar who had scored 81 goals in his time at Real Madrid and now has three in his injury-plagued season with LAFC … but, my Lord, this one: a perfect Gareth Bale header, snapped off a cross, Union keeper Andre Blake diving, but this one just beyond his own spectacular abilities.
In the penalty kicks, McCarthy dove once to his right and then to a left for a stop, after guessing wrong on the the first of five Union penalty kicks, but seeing it pass over the bar, into the crowd. Maybe this title was won before the playoffs began, with LAFC gaining the home field by the slimmest of margins, determined by MLS protocols in a sense, since both finalists finished with 67 regular-season points, but the first tiebreaker was total wins; the second was goal differential. If that order had been flipped, the Union would have hosted this game at Subaru Park.
Officially, the final score was 3 for LAFC, 3 for the Union. Those numbers were both correct and so short of telling the tale of this tape. They fail to mention how Union midfielder José Andrés Martínez committed mistakes that led to the first LAFC goal, then atoned with a juke for space and a perfect pass that led to the first Union goal from Dániel Gazdag in the 59th minute.
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