Though the final score line of 3-0 might not seem like it, Andre Blake stepped up when he was needed most with a penalty kick save and a denial of a well hit strike from Darlington Nagbe after the hosts went down to 10 men to lead the Philadelphia Union to a standings climbing three points on Sunday afternoon.
The Union were pretty well in control and up 2-0 on goals from Jack Elliott and Alejandro Bedoya when Kai Wagner was shown his second yellow in the 64th minute. The mostly toothless Crew attack didn’t necessarily come alive but a penalty called on a clash between Alvas Powell and Gyasi Zardes put the Crew in position to cut the lead in half but Pedro Santos telegraphed a fairly easy penalty for Blake to deny and keep the zero on the board.