{"id":69073,"date":"2025-11-25T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69073\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:06:10","slug":"anders-dreyers-rocket-sends-san-diego-to-western-conference-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69073\/","title":{"rendered":"Anders Dreyer&#8217;s rocket sends San Diego to Western Conference Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star No. 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/anders-dreyer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anders Dreyer<\/a> scored a highlight-reel 72nd-minute game-winner, sending San Diego to a dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-cup-playoffs\/2025\/matches\/sdvsmin-11-24-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-0 victory<\/a> over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/minnesota-united-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota United FC<\/a> in Monday&#8217;s Western Conference Semifinals matchup at a raucous Snapdragon Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The result books a mouth-watering Conference Final with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/vancouver-whitecaps-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Whitecaps FC<\/a> on Saturday (9 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/san-diego-fc-vs-vancouver-whitecaps-fc\/umc.cse.5qqw6h8bwwhj7e19tope738zl?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS Season Pass<\/a>) in a matchup between the top two seeds in the West, each seeking a first-ever MLS Cup presented by Audi appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s match looked like it could be headed for a frustrating ending for San Diego, who struggled to break down Minnesota United&#8217;s stingy defense for much of the night.<\/p>\n<p>But Dreyer ensured that wouldn&#8217;t be the case, lashing home the decisive strike past Minnesota goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/dayne-st-clair\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dayne St. Clair<\/a>, finishing off an audacious backheel assist from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/corey-baird\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Baird<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star No. 10 Anders Dreyer scored a highlight-reel 72nd-minute game-winner, sending San Diego to a dramatic 1-0 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[11413,16416,74,1254,76,75,32886,6532,40873],"class_list":["post-69073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-match-reaction","tag-mls-cup-playoffs","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-fc","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sdvsmin-11-24-2025","tag-sendtonews","tag-vancouver-whitecaps-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69073","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=69073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}