Julian Carranza may not have been satisfied with the result but his face said it all when he was asked post-game about the goal he scored in the 67th minute against LAFC early Sunday morning eastern time.
“It was a really nice goal,” the 21-year-old Argentine striker said with a grin on his face.
Nice might even be understating it. Where Jakob Glesnes’ goal at LAFC in 2019 was all power, Carranza’s was all finesse.
“It’s a really special goal, a goal-scorer’s goal, right?” Union head coach Jim Curtin said post-game.
The goal was the fourth of the season in Carranza’s ninth start (he missed the NYCFC game serving a red card suspension), which means he’s already scored more for the Union in 9 games than he did in 11 starts and 41 total appearances for Inter Miami over his first two seasons in MLS (that’s a goal every 157 minutes versus a goal every 423 minutes for Miami).