CHESTER — There will be ways to dissect the Union’s loss to New York City FC in the Eastern Conference semifinal Sunday night for whatever length of brief offseason MLS has.

Or there is the easy way to describe what happened.

Maxi Moralez scored. The Union, over the course of 18 shot attempts and five on target, did not, an ill-timed second home shoutout of the season. And while boiling down the 1-0 loss to “ball doesn’t go in net” is too zoomed in to be useful, it was a version of the truth.

The top-seeded Union could’ve done more to extend their season. They could’ve started more quickly, off the 22-day hiatus since their last game. A few degrees more angled for Tai Baribo’s foot in the first half or a few milliseconds quicker off the foot of Milan Iloski in the second, and the conver

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