Sporting KC may bethe favorites for the showpiece at PPL Park,but Jim Curtin’s Union side are confident of winning their first piece of silverwareThe hashtag Philadelphia Union bear been using to preview Wednesday night’s US Open Cup final against Sporting KC is #unfinishedbusiness – a reference not only to the Union’s loss at home in final year’s final against Seattle, but the semi-final defeat to Sporting in 2012, or also at PPL Park.
Sporting went on to win the trophy that year – securing the first silverware of the Peter Vermes era – while Philadelphia bear yet to win any trophy in their short history. They’re anxious to shed that record,and after a sometimes charmed run through this tournament it’s possible to believe that this just might be their year.
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Source: theguardian.com