{"id":49900,"date":"2025-11-24T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49900\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:50:08","slug":"morales-freese-help-new-york-city-fc-beat-no-1-seed-philadelphia-union-1-0-advance-to-conference-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49900\/","title":{"rendered":"Morales, Freese help New York City FC beat No. 1 seed Philadelphia Union 1-0, advance to conference finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maxi Moralez opened the scoring in the 27th minute and New York City FC beat the No. 1 seed Philadelphia Union 1-0 on Sunday night to win the Eastern Conference semifinals. <\/p>\n<p>New York City&#8217;s Matt Freese had five saves. including a stop of a first-touch shot by Frankie Westfield, off an arcing entry played by Milan Iloski, from point-blank range in the 74th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia, which won the 2025 Supporters Shield, lost at Subaru Park for just the second time this season. <\/p>\n<p>No. 5 seed NYCFC plays third-seeded Miami in the conference finals. <\/p>\n<p>On the counter-attack, Moralez perfectly timed his run onto a ball played ahead by Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez and beat goalkeeper Andre Blake with a rolling shot from the center of the area the slipped inside the left post. <\/p>\n<p>Blake had two saves, which included a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/1992779583268003963\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">diving stop<\/a> of a shot by Fern\u00e1ndez from beyond midfield in the 55th minute. Blake appeared to have injured his hamstring on the play and was replaced by Andrew Rick \u2014 finished with a save \u2014 in the 60th. <\/p>\n<p>The Union outshot NYCFC 9-3 in the first half and 20-6 overall. <\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maxi Moralez opened the scoring in the 27th minute and New York City FC beat the No. 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6497,9,24,11,10,19672,400,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-49900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-major-league-soccer","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-philadelphia-union","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}