{"id":463245,"date":"2026-09-14T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463245\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:06:22","slug":"cavan-sullivan-scores-two-goals-as-the-union-cruise-past-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463245\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavan Sullivan scores two goals as the Union cruise past San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">SAN DIEGO \u2014 <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/cavan-sullivan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cavan Sullivan<\/a> recorded his first two-goal game in Major League Soccer, and assisted on another goal to help the Union cruise to a 5-0 victory over San Diego on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Philadelphia (9-10-6) is unbeaten in its last 10 matches, with eight victories, since the <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">San Diego (8-11-6) had a four-game home winning streak snapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Sullivan has five goals and six assists in his last seven MLS games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Sullivan opened the scoring in first-half stoppage time on a creative <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhilaUnion\/status\/2099323062374088924\" rel=\"nofollow\">back-heel flick<\/a> that deflected in off the post. Then Sullivan powered a shot through the legs of San Diego goalkeeper Duran Ferree from a difficult angle in the 62nd minute for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Sullivan set up the third goal. He chipped it over the defense and Frankie Westfield ran it down and passed it back to the penalty spot for a wide-open Bruno Damiani to score his fourth goal in two games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The Union used an own goal by Anibal Godoy to go ahead 4-0 in the 87th and Malik Jakupovic scored his first MLS goal in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \"><a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/andre-blake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Blake<\/a>, who made his 290th appearance for the Union, made five saves to record his seventh clean sheet of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min SAN DIEGO \u2014 Cavan Sullivan recorded his first two-goal game in Major League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,182422],"class_list":["post-463245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-union-san-diego-fc-score-cavan-sullivan-bruno-damiani-andre-blake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463245","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=463245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}