CHESTER, Pennsylvania – Dániel Gazdag scored one of his two goals three minutes after Mikael Uhre found the net early in the first half and the Philadelphia Union cruised to an easy 4-0 victory over DC United on Sunday night.

With the win, Philadelphia drew level with Toronto FC for one of two wildcard spots with four games left in the regular season. The loss puts DC United three points back of the play-in game.

Uhre finally gave Union the lead when he took a pass from 20-year-old Quinn Sullivan in the 13th minute and scored for the tenth time this season.

Gazdag scored the goal to make it 2-0 in the 16th minute without an assist.

Tai Baribo increased the Union’s lead to 3-0 six minutes into the second half with an assist from Sullivan. It was Baribo’s ninth goal in 17 appearances this season. Sullivan, a 20-year-old midfielder, has a career-high 10 assists in 30 appearances.

Gazdag scored the final goal in the 69th minute with an assist from Baribo – his second. It was Gazdag’s 17th goal of the season, two goals short of DC United’s Christian Benteke in the Golden Boot award race. The Union ended Benteke’s five-game goal streak. Benteke has scored 34 goals in 64 appearances since joining the league in 2022.

Andre Blake finished with five saves to secure his fifth clean sheet of the season for the Union, which has won three of four games on its way to the playoffs.

Alex Bono saved six shots on goal for DC United, which has a 2-0-1 record in its last three games.

The Union played away against DC United on May 4 and reached a 2-2 draw.

DC United returns home to play the Columbus Crew on Saturday. The Union hosts Atlanta United on Saturday.

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