When the MLS schedule for 2025 was released, May rose like a mountain in front of the Philadelphia Union.

Seven games were scheduled in a hectic month. Four were on the road, and the Union would hit June 1 having played more than half of its home games for the season.

Add in the potential of two U.S. Open Cup rounds, and May could be a ramp that the Union used to launch into the back half of the season or a hillside into which they crashed and burned.

It has decidedly proven to be the former.

The Union navigated the month unbeaten at 5-0-4 in all competitions. The 15 MLS points gained is fourth-most in a month in franchise history. The Union proved an ability to rotate their way through a heavy workload, to take care of business at home, to gut out away wins.

The reward is a spot atop

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