Andre Blake is officially back in the XI

First Fall Obligatory Bridge Shot of 2024 It’s a gorgeous night for soccer.

Someone supercharged Phang's T-shirt cannon and he just blasted a T-shirt a good few feet over the River End.

It's time for Matthew De George's favorite game day tweet! *scheduled tweet* Andre. Blake.

GOAL UHRE Quinn Sullivan zoomed past a defender on the right side and passed a very, very, very wide open Mikael Uhre. 1-0

That's Mikael Uhre's 10th goal in MLS regular-season play in 2024. He's now got 13, 9 and 10 goals in his three regular seasons with the Union.

GOAL GAZDAG It's 2-0 and the Union have their swagger back.

The Union are probably No. 1 or No. 2 on the "Oh Fuck We Have to Play These Guys" Power Rankings if they stay on pace and make the playoffs with the way they are playing.

HT: Union 2, DC 0 Uhre and Gazdag with the goals Andre Blake hasn't been tested much. The ideal first half at home First-half GIF recap time GO

GOAL BARIBO But hot damn does that goal belong to Quinn Sullivan for that peach of a pass. 3-0 Union

The Union have scored 3+ goals in 4 of their last 7 MLS regular-season games. They scored 3+ goals 3 times in their first 23 MLS games.

GOAL GAZDAG Baribo to Gazdag to finish off the rout. Jim Curtin is high-fiving fans on the sidelines. Feels like Union Soccer again 4-0

Daniel Gazdag now has 10 multi-goal games in a Union shirt in all competitions. He's had multiple multi-goal games in a single season in 2022, 2023 and 2024, the three full seasons he's been here.

"It's a School Night!" comes from the River End as Cavan Sullivan prepares to enter the game.

This is by far the Stat of the Year. And yes I gave Matt a round of applause in the press box when he told me the stat before he posted. I have been dethroned as the King of Obscure Stats (for now).

FT: Union 4, D.C. 0 The Union have won 5 of their last 7 MLS games. They are level with Toronto on points, but TFC has the wins tiebreaker right now. Union end the weekend two points clear of their closest rivals for 9th place.

I'm surprised not a lot of people have pointed to this as the cause to a ton of sloppy football league wide. Week 3 in the regular season now feels like preseason Week 3 in terms of ramping up players to full speed since very few of them played preseason snaps.

The Phillies are favored at home to close out the division behind Aaron Nola. Cubs-Phillies Betting Preview at Crossing Broad: crossingbroad.com/2024/09/philli…

If we’re going to do two MNF games, they gotta kick off at 7 & 8:30. Can’t have too much overlap like we’re getting tonight.