Wagner seemed a smart acquisition for the Union, just six months after they let him go to Birmingham City. Sure, Philadelphia are a side that likes to build from within. But going after such a crucial player who knows the club and was the all-time leader in assists for the club made sense. And, in fairness, it’s not like the already-struggling Union could get any worse. <\/p>\n
Few could have predicted how significant the turnaround would be, though. To be fair, there’s a bit of everything involved. Ryan Richter has allowed the team to play with a bit more freedom. Cavan Sullivan is a regular. His brother, Quinn, is finding form after a long injury. Milan Iloski has now scored in a club-record six consecutive MLS matches.<\/p>\n
But Wagner’s sweet, sweet left foot has been the architect of many a goal. Such was the case Saturday night. Philadelphia, quite inexplicably, went down 2-0 to a 10-man Atlanta United. But they battled back and scored twice in second-half stoppage time for a 3-2 win. Wagner assisted all two of the three goals. That’s three wins in three, with a not-so-new face leading the charge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wagner seemed a smart acquisition for the Union, just six months after they let him go to Birmingham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17160,11908,146884,17145,5429,146883,17156,8003,123,125,124,8006,146885],"class_list":["post-360745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-charlotte-fc","tag-chicago-fire-fc","tag-chicago-fire-fc-vs-charlotte-fc","tag-columbus-crew","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-inter-miami-cf-vs-columbus-crew","tag-los-angeles-fc","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-vancouver-whitecaps","tag-vancouver-whitecaps-vs-los-angeles-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}