Photo Marjorie Elzey<\/p>\n
Both starting Union center backs are one yellow card away from suspension.<\/p>\n
As of Wednesday night, April 23rd, 2026 at 11 PM, we give our best but unofficial understanding of the Philadelphia Union\u2019s current yellow card report for Major League Soccer. (We do not include yellow cards from the Concacaf Champions\u2019 Cup, since those cards have no impact on MLS.)<\/p>\n
Suspended for the next match (with Columbus Saturday, April 25th). No one.
\nWarned for impending suspension for having already accumulated four yellow cards. Olwethu Makhanya & Japhet Sery.<\/p>\n
Here is our best UNOFFICIAL summary of all current Union MLS yellow cards accumulated.<\/p>\n
Four cards:<\/p>\n
Olwethu Makhanya
\nJaphet Sery<\/p>\n
Two cards<\/p>\n
Nathan Harriel (Three \u201cgood behavior\u201d games accumulated of the five consecutive needed to eliminate one yellow)
\nJovan Lukic (Two good behaviors accumulated)<\/p>\n
One card<\/p>\n
Philippe Ndingha (Two good behaviors accumulated; has not played in the last two matches)
\nFrank Westfield (Three good behaviors accumulated)
\nBruno Damiani (Three good behaviors accumulated)
\nCavan Sullivan (Three good behaviors accumulated)
\nAlejandro Bedoya (Zero good behaviors accumulated)
\nDanley Jean Jacques (Zero good behaviors accumulated)<\/p>\n
One-reduced-to-zero through the first of three three possible good behavior reductions<\/p>\n
Jesus Bueno (Two possible reductions left)
\nEzekiel Alladoh\u00a0(Two reductions left)<\/p>\n
No one else on the squad has received an MLS yellow card.<\/p>\n
As should be no surprise the yellow cards are concentrated in zone 14 and on the back line in front of goal, the defensive midfielders and the center backs.<\/p>\n
Nathan Harriel switching into the center with Westfield switching sides and Philippe Ndinga coming on at left back is a move that Bradley Carnell has already used more than once.<\/p>\n
And Jesus Bueno has proven himself more than capable as a third number six, as Carnell\u2019s lineup against Toronto demonstrated.<\/p>\n
Parenthetical comment having nothing to do with yellow cards: Imagine the Union attacking midfielders being Danley Jean Jacques and Quinn Sullivan, were Sullivan fully to recover the form he had in 2025. Carnell\u2019s press might be formidable after the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Marjorie Elzey Both starting Union center backs are one yellow card away from suspension. As of Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-173559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}