{"id":248755,"date":"2026-04-02T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248755\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:38:11","slug":"loons-to-head-to-sacramento-for-u-s-open-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248755\/","title":{"rendered":"Loons to head to Sacramento for U.S. Open Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota United will go on the road to play Sacramento Republic in the U.S. Open Cup round of 32 on April 14 or 15, the national tournament announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>If the Loons win, they will play either San Jose Earthquakes or Phoenix Rising in the round of 16 on April 28 or 29.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In the four-team group, the Earthquakes have top hosting priority and Minnesota second, so MNUFC will only have a home game in St. Paul in the next round if Phoenix, a USL Championship side, pulls off the upset.<\/p>\n<p>Details on the round of 32 match will be released later.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the Loons reached the semifinals of the Open Cup, conceding a goal in the 120th minute for a 2-1 loss to Austin FC at Allianz Field on Sept. 17. It was the second furthest the Loons had advanced in the national tournament, behind the 2019 final, a 2-1 loss to Atlanta United.<\/p>\n<p>Related Articles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota United will go on the road to play Sacramento Republic in the U.S. Open Cup round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[37910,110994,110993,121,123,122,14643,1084],"class_list":["post-248755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-minnesota-united","tag-open-cup","tag-phoenix-rising","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-republic","tag-san-jose-earthquakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}