Union manager Jim Curtin was unusually transparent in revealing seven players who will start in Tuesday's Open Cup opener. Matt Freese, Stuart Findlay, Matt Real, Olivier Mbaizo, Jack McGlynn, Quinn Sullivan, and Paxten Aaronson are all set to start.
Aaronson has playedin MLS over six games this year, mainly because Dániel Gazdag has been outstanding. Aaronson has played much more with the Union’s reserve team, making three starts and registering a goal and an assist. This will be an opportunity for him to take the reins in a start for the first time since last November., both last-minute cameos as a defensive substitute.
“Matt’s been at his very best so far this season in training, [and] he’s done a good job in the Union II games,” Curtin said. “This will be an opportunity now with the first team to get minutes, and he deserves those minutes.”, when he came off the bench after losing the starting right back job to Nathan Harriel. He likely won’t get it back any time soon because Harriel has continued to be terrific, including in Saturday’s 2-2 tie at LAFC that ended Sunday morning back home.
Whoever else ends up starting or coming off the bench, there are two outfield players we know we won’t see: Mikael Uhre and José Andrés Martínez. Uhre has stayed in Philadelphia to shake off tightness in the same quad muscle where an injury caused him to miss two games earlier this year; and Martínez is dealing with a knee issue that flared up Saturday night and caused him to be subbed out.
Curtin said Martínez had surgery on the knee last year, and still has some flare-ups of pain. Martínez was to get a scan on Monday. “He mentioned fairly early [on Saturday] that he didn’t feel great,” Curtin said. “He then pushed himself and kept going on the field. I don’t think it was any one play, it’s just been kind of wear and tear, which is scary for sure.”
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