{"id":50675,"date":"2025-11-24T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50675\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:19:07","slug":"new-york-city-fc-how-they-reached-the-eastern-conference-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50675\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City FC: How they reached the Eastern Conference Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The road warriors theme continued into the Eastern Conference Semifinals, where New York City shocked yet another MLS Cup contender by downing Supporters&#8217; Shield-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/philadelphia-union\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Union<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-cup-playoffs\/2025\/matches\/phivsnyc-11-23-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Missing Mart\u00ednez and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/andres-perea\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9s Perea<\/a> due to injuries, as well as midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/aiden-o-neill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aiden O&#8217;Neill<\/a> through suspension, NYCFC were short-handed but unfazed. Veteran Moralez turned back the clock to score the game&#8217;s lone goal, while Freese produced multiple highlight-reel saves to keep the Union off the board and ensure progression to the Conference Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road warriors theme continued into the Eastern Conference Semifinals, where New York City shocked yet another MLS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28320,14241,9,14242,11,10,12687],"class_list":{"0":"post-50675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-miavsnyc-11-29-2025","9":"tag-mls-cup-playoffs","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city-football-club","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sendtonews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50675","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=50675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}