When Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores the winning goal, it is easy to believe that he beat you. After all, Zlatan himself certainly believes he can beat anyone and everyone. But on Saturday night, the Union really beat themselves. And, ironically, that’s much better than being beaten by Zlatan.
Ibra laced in the winner and assisted the tying goal, but both came after the types of errors that the Union have largely avoided this season. First there was Ale Bedoya’s midfield giveaway that Jonathan Dos Santos immediately put onto Ibrahimovic’s feet. Then there was David Accam losing Romain Alessandrini and Ray Gaddis missing a tackle on the Frenchman, which left Mark McKenzie in a 1v2 against a pair of players — one of them a generational goalscorer — that are true punishers in the box.