Union win opener 4-1 over Columbus with goals Julián Carranza and Dániel Gazdag
gave the new season an impressive jump-start on Saturday night at Subaru Park, coming from behind to rout the Columbus Crew, 4-1. Dániel Gazdag and Julián Carranza scored twice each, with both of Gazdag’s goals coming on penalty kicks., and it came to pass. His team’s only really good scoring chance of the first half-hour was Julían Carranza hitting the post of a wide open net in the 27th minute, only to be spared embarrassment by being flagged offside.
The game turned in the Union’s favor just before halftime. A 45th-minute Kai Wagner free kick pinged around in traffic in Columbus’ 18-yard box, and when the ball fell to Leon Flach he shot it off Mo Farsi’s right elbow. Referee Lukasz Szpala immediately whistled for a penalty kick, and after a video review stoppage the call was upheld.
Martínez started the play by snatching the ball off Lucas Zelarayán and feeding Gazdag, who took off up the middle. He spotted Alejandro Bedoya to his right, fed the Union’s captain, and Bedoya sent the ball back into the middle for Carranza to flick in brilliantly with the outside of his left foot.. And a penny for those critics’ thoughts about Hernández’s dive in the Union’s 18-yard box four minutes later that earned him a yellow card instead of a penalty kick.
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