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Phildelphia Union earn home win over 10-man Chicago Fire

Philadelphia Union move into fifth place in the MLS Eastern Conference as they beat Chicago Fire 1-0 thanks to a strike for Jack McInerney.

By Simon Sinclair, Reporter

Published: May 19 2013 | 03:05

Last updated: May 19 2013 | 16:15

Philadelphia Union secured a vital 1-0 home win over Chicago Fire in their MLS clash thanks to a goal from Jack McInerney.

The Union took the lead in the third minute when Sebastien Le Toux fired a low cross into the penalty area and found the run of McInerneny, who headed the ball past Sean Johnson into the net.

Chicago responded almost immediately but Zac MacMath did well to keep Patrick Nyarko close-range effort out as he tipped the ball past the post.

After the break, MacMath made another fine stop as he did well to reach and tip over a Dilly Duka effort that looked to be creeping in.

Chicago's situation worsened when they were reduced to 10 men as Wells Thompson received his second bookable offence and was duly sent off for pushing down Danny Cruz.

The Fire pushed for an equaliser but couldn't find one as they succumbed to their seventh defeat of the year, while Union moved into fifth place in the MLS Eastern Conference.

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Eastern Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Inter Miami Inter Miami	34	22	8	4	79	49	30	74
2	Columbus Crew	34	19	9	6	72	40	32	66
3	FC Cincinnati Cincinnati	34	18	5	11	58	48	10	59
4	Orlando City	34	15	7	12	59	50	9	52
5	Charlotte FC Charlotte FC	34	14	9	11	46	37	9	51
6	New York City FC NY City	34	14	8	12	54	49	5	50
7	New York Red Bulls NY Red Bulls	34	11	14	9	55	50	5	47
8	CF Montreal Montreal	34	11	10	13	48	64	-16	43
9	Atlanta United Atlanta	34	10	10	14	46	49	-3	40
10	DC United	34	10	10	14	52	70	-18	40
11	Philadelphia Union Philadelphia	34	9	10	15	62	55	7	37
12	Toronto	34	11	4	19	40	61	-21	37
13	Nashville SC Nashville	34	9	9	16	38	54	-16	36
14	New England Revolution New England	34	9	4	21	37	74	-37	31
15	Chicago Fire	34	7	9	18	40	62	-22	30

Western Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Los Angeles FC Los Angeles	34	19	7	8	63	43	20	64
2	Los Angeles Galaxy LA Galaxy	34	19	7	8	69	50	19	64
3	Real Salt Lake Salt Lake	34	16	11	7	65	48	17	59
4	Seattle Sounders Seattle	34	16	9	9	51	35	16	57
5	Houston Dynamo Houston	34	15	9	10	47	39	8	54
6	Minnesota United Minnesota Utd	34	15	7	12	58	49	9	52
7	Colorado Rapids Colorado	34	15	5	14	61	60	1	50
8	Portland Timbers Portland	34	12	11	11	65	56	9	47
9	Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver	34	13	8	13	52	49	3	47
10	Austin FC Austin	34	11	9	14	39	48	-9	42
11	Dallas	34	11	8	15	54	56	-2	41
12	St Louis City	34	8	13	13	50	63	-13	37
13	Sporting Kansas City Kansas	34	8	7	19	51	66	-15	31
14	San Jose Earthquakes Earthquakes	34	6	3	25	41	78	-37	21