Tayvon Grey scored on a header within the ninth minute of second-half stoppage time to carry New York Metropolis FC to a wild 2-1 victory over the 10-man Philadelphia Union on Sunday in Chester, Pa.
Grey’s second profession MLS aim, and the primary because the 2024 season, got here eight minutes after Philadelphia defender Olwethu Makhanya was despatched off after receiving his second reserving for dissent.
Hannes Wolf additionally scored earlier than halftime for NYCFC (1-0-1, 4 factors), which gained its second in a row in Philadelphia after a 1-0 win in a 2025 Japanese Convention semifinal.
Indiana Vassilev’s 89th-minute penalty pulled the Union (0-2-0, 0 factors) stage after they had been the aggressors for almost all of the second half.
However Philadelphia failed to attain from open play for a second consecutive match, after an offseason wherein it parted with a number of members of its 2025 Supporters’ Defend-winning workforce, together with main scorer Tai Baribo and striker Mikael Uhre.
The Union had peppered NYCFC’s aim up till their equalizer, incomes a spot kick awarded when referee Chris Penso dominated Thiago Martins had hauled down Stas Korzeniowski within the penalty space.
Vassilev stepped up and hammered his end down the center, then rapidly ran to retrieve the ball because it appeared the hosts had been extra prone to take the victory.
That modified when Makhanya disputed a choice to award a penalty kick and was summarily dismissed.
Invited ahead, NYCFC discovered their winner on a recycled play after an preliminary assault was repelled.
Talles Magno reached the ball on the left aspect of the penalty space and performed the ball to Agustin Ojeda close to the highest nook of the field.
Ojeda curled in an inswinging cross, and Grey outmuscled his marker to fulfill with a agency header that left goalkeeper Andre Blake little probability to react.
Ojeda additionally performed a job within the setup of NYCFC’s Thirty sixth-minute opener, hitting a diagonal go that led to Nicolas Fernandez’s shot from the left aspect of the penalty space to drive Andre Blake right into a lunging save.
Wolf was first to the rebound and hammered it into an open internet earlier than Blake may get well.
–Area Degree Media
