CHESTER — For most of the Philadelphia Union, a beating like the one meted out by Vancouver in Saturday night’s 7-0 loss is a once-in-a-lifetime thumping.

Jovan Lukic has been there before, though. Late in 2023, the midfielder was a second-half substitute for Serbia’s Under-21s in a Euro U-21 Championship qualifier at the City Ground in Nottingham against England’s U-21s.

Lukic entered the game at 6-1 in the 66th minute. It finished 9-1, an England squad that included Cole Palmer, Harvey Elliott and Liam Delap running roughshod. Being for the national team, that one carried even more sting than a game in the dead of the club season.

So in plotting how the Union recover from last week’s loss and the 3-1 ouster in the U.S. Open Cup on Tuesday in Nashville, Lukic might have a little more e

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