Through 27 games with the Philadelphia Union, José Andrés Martínez has shown to be one of the team’s biggest weapons when he’s playing under control and one of their Achilles heels when his lack of discipline gets the best of him.
The latter was the case back on May 1 when the Union hosted NYCFC. Martínez’s tussle with notorious flopper Valentín Castellanos put the hosts in the hole in the 16th minute when video review led to the Venezuelan international midfielder’s early exit.
It was the first red card of his Union career (to go with 11 yellow cards), but it perhaps couldn’t have been more damaging with the Union already down 1-0 on a fifth minute goal in a game they would go on to lose 2-0.