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Union Keep Second Consecutive Clean Sheet as Club Earns Road Win in Cincinnati

March 30, 2019 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
Philadelphia Union News Release


CHESTER, Pa. -Philadelphia Union earned their second win of the season with a 2-0 road victory over FC Cincinnati. David Accam scored for a second consecutive game to give him three goals and two assists over a two-match span. Marco Fabian scored his second goal in his third game played with the Union. Andre Blake registered his first clean sheet of the 2019 season.

Philadelphia Union 2 - FC Cincinnati 0

Nippert Stadium (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Saturday, March 30, 2019

TODAY'S MATCH INFO:

Nippert Stadium (Cincinnati, OH)

Referee: Rubiel Vazquez

Assistants Referees: Logan Brown, Michael Kampmeinert

Fourth Official: Matthew Franz

VAR: Ricardo Salazar

Attendance: 25,867

Weather: 49 degrees and rain

GOALS/ASSISTS

PHI - Marco Fabian (David Accam) 47'

PHI - David Accam (unassisted) 58'

DISCIPLINARY SUMMARY

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LINEUP

Philadelphia Union: Andre Blake; Raymon Gaddis, Jack Elliott, Auston Trusty, Kai Wagner; Alejandro Bedoya, Haris Medunjanin, Brenden Aaronson (Warren Creavalle 90'); Marco Fabian (Jamiro Monteiro 71'); Fafa Picault, David Accam (Cory Burke 66')

Substitutes not used: Matt Freese; Mark McKenzie, Olivier Mbaizo, Ilsinho

FC Cincinnati: Spencer Richey; Mathieu Deplagne, Nick Hagglund, Forrest Lasso, Greg Garza; Leonardo Bertone, Victor Ulloa (Caleb Stanko 71'); Allan Cruz (Frankie Amaya 76'), Roland Lamah; Darren Mattocks, Kekuta Manneh (Kenny Saief 59')

Substitutes not used: Jimmy Hague; Justin Hoyte, Alvas Powell, Eric Alexander

TEAM NOTES

The Union have allowed 10 total shots over the previous two matches, both clean sheet wins ... that total sets a new team record for the fewest shots conceded over a two-match stretch ... the previous record was 12, set with six shots conceded on 5/31/14 at Chivas USA and six conceded on 6/7/14 vs. Vancouver...the Union's nine first half corners ties the team record (8/29/12 vs. CLB, 2nd half; 10/2/14 vs. CHI, 2nd half; 4/13/18 vs. ORL 2nd half)

David Accam scored a goal and notched a helper in the win ... the forward now has three goals and two assists over his last two games.

Marco Fabian scored his second goal and his first game-winning goal in his third game with the Union.

Andre Blake earned his first clean sheet of the season, a club record-tying 28th clean sheet, in his club record-tying 102nd start in goal.

Jamiro Monteiro made his Union debut after coming on as a substitute in the 71st minute.

With the win, Philadelphia Union won their 100th regular-season match in club history.

The Union next return home to Talen Energy Stadium on Saturday, April 6 in a regular-season match against FC Dallas (7:30 p.m. ET/PHL17)

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