Soccer is often times a beautiful sport filled with breath-taking passes, scintillating footwork, and incredible feats of concentration and precision. Last night’s 0-0 draw between the Philadelphia Union and the LA Galaxy was not one of those times.
The Philadelphia Union’s announced starting XI said they would be playing their traditional 4-2-3-1, however functionally the way they lined up was more of a 4-1-4-1 with Haris Medunjanin alone between the lines and Alejandro Bedoya playing up a bit higher than a traditional 4-2-3-1 might typically suggest for a midfielder.
The match that followed was without question a sloppy, miserable, plodding affair barely resembling the sport of soccer.