Daily News | Union Takeaways: Damion Lowe steps up to help the Union get an ugly rivalry win
’s 1-0 win at the rival New York Red Bulls, in which the Union were outshot 19-3 but held on after Dániel Gazdag’s penalty kick goal in the 31st minute., due in part to a couple of small injuries picked up in recent weeks. It happened to come against a longtime friend, Cory Burke, a colleague of Lowe’s and Andre Blake’s on Jamaica’s national team. And Burke was extra motivated because it was his first game against the Union since moving north as a free agent in the winter.
Although Lowe completed just 12 of 33 passes, the rest of his game was great: 55 touches, four tackles, four clearances, two blocks, one interception, 10 defensive recoveries, and 15 duels won out of 23 contested. Burke got six shots, but only one was especially dangerous: a header in the 73rd minute that sailed wide.The number of shots the Union took in the game.
The Union’s expected-goals sum in the game was 1.07. The sum from open play specifically — excluding the penalty kick, free kicks and corner kicks — was a grand total of
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