\n Defence Force 0, Philadelphia Union 5<\/p>\n
Bruno Damiani<\/a> struck for a second-half brace to help put the finishing touches on the Union’s rout at Hasely Crawford Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n Milan Iloski<\/a> and record signing Ezekiel Alladoh<\/a> scored two minutes apart in the first half to open the scoring.<\/p>\n Olwethu Makhanya<\/a> made it 3-0 in the 64th minute before Cavan Sullivan<\/a> set up Damiani for his first and Damiani netted his second from the penalty spot to close things out for Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Union will look to close things out back at Subaru Park on Feb. 26. The aggregate winner faces LIGA MX powerhouse Club Am\u00e9rica in the Round of 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n Goals\u00a0<\/p>\n 30′ – PHI – Milan Iloski | WATCH<\/a> \n O&M FC 0, FC Cincinnati 4<\/p>\n Ayoub Jabbari<\/a> scored twice in the closing moments to seal a comprehensive win\u00a0in the Dominican Republic.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tom Barlow<\/a> and Kevin Denkey<\/a> struck in the first half before Jabbari atoned for a missed penalty kick with a near-post blast in the 86th minute before putting a bow on the victory in stoppage time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Leg 2 will be played at Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium on Feb. 25. The winner advances to the Round of 16 to take on LIGA MX juggernaut Tigres UANL.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n Goals\u00a0<\/p>\n 12′ – CIN – Tom Barlow | WATCH<\/a> \n CS Cartagin\u00e9s 0, Vancouver Whitecaps FC 0<\/p>\n Despite playing much of the match on the front foot, Vancouver were unable to find the breakthrough in Costa Rica.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Whitecaps had 75.6 percent of possession, outshooting the hosts 16-7 and accumulating 10 corner kicks, but couldn’t capitalize on one of their five shots on frame,\u00a0<\/p>\n It all gets decided Feb. 25 at BC Place, with the aggregate winner meeting Seattle Sounders FC in the Round of 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n Goals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defence Force 0, Philadelphia Union 5 Bruno Damiani struck for a second-half brace to help put the finishing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31458,55918,55329,26004,55917,69,71,70,10227,10226,55919],"class_list":["post-117810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-concacaf-champions-cup","tag-cscvsvan-02-18-2026","tag-defvsphi-02-18-2026","tag-fc-cincinnati","tag-oymvscin-02-18-2026","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union","tag-sendtonews","tag-vancouver-whitecaps-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n32′ – PHI – Ezekiel Alladoh | WATCH<\/a>
\n64′ – PHI – Olwethu Makhanya | WATCH<\/a>
\n69′ – PHI – Bruno Damiani | WATCH<\/a>
\n81′ – PHI – Bruno Damiani (PK) | WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n
\n33′ – CIN – Kevin Denkey | WATCH<\/a>
\n86′ – CIN – Ayoub Jabbari | WATCH<\/a>
\n90+2′ – CIN – Ayoub Jabbari | WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n