Daily News | Union rotate starters, fall 1-0 to MLS Eastern Conference leaders Cincinnati FC on the road
Union midfielder José Andrés Martínez may have had the best chance of the game, in the 44th minute of a 1-0 road loss to Cincinnati on Saturday.With a calendar flexing a full slate of matches across several competitions, player rotation is crucial for the Union to contend in the matches lined up ahead.
“The Champions League is a really big game for our club,” Curtin said after the loss, emphasizing that the player rotation was done to have key performers in top form for Wednesday’s deciding match in Mexico against Atlas. “While it hurts that we don’t take points in the 7th game of the season now, we had to make a decision to try to set ourselves up.”Advertisement
Instead, Curtin kept all those players on his bench. Goalkeeper Andre Blake was the captain leading out starters who were mostly recognizable on the defensive end, with Matt Real, Nathan Harriel, Jack Elliott, Jakob Glesnes, Olivier Mbaizo, Leon Flach, José Andrés Martínez and less so Jesús Bueno, Quinn Sullivan, Chris Donovan.
The Union’s most dangerous chance in the first half came mere seconds after the best chance for Cincinnati FC. In the 44th minute, with almost every Union player in the Cincinnati box for a set play, Brenner latched on to the loose ball and sent an outlet pass toward the Union goal. Both Santiago Arias of Cincinnati and Martínez were racing to the ball, with Martínez deftly getting a toe to it first to poke it safely in the other direction.
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