Philadelphia Union opened their MLS season against D.C. United at Audi Field, falling 1-0. Forward Tai Baribo scored the lone goal in the 23rd minute. The Union outshot their hosts, 13-7, but could not find the equalizer.<\/p>\n
The Union return to Subaru Park on Thursday to face Defence Force FC in the second leg of their Round One Concacaf Champions Cup series (7:00 p.m. ET \/ FS2). They will then host New York City FC in their MLS home opener on Sunday, March 1 (4:30 p.m. ET \/ Apple TV).<\/p>\n
D.C. United 1 \u2013 Philadelphia Union 0
Audi Field (Washington D.C.)\u00a0
Saturday, February 21, 2026<\/p>\n
\n TODAY\u2019S MATCH INFO<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Guido Gonzales Jr.
Assistant Referees:\u00a0Nick Uranga, Adam Wienckowski
Fourth Official:\u00a0Sergii Boiko
VAR:\u00a0Shawn Tehini
VAR Assistant:\u00a0Tom Supple<\/p>\n
\n SCORING SUMMARY<\/p>\n
DC \u2013 Tai Baribo (Peglow, Pirani) 23\u2019<\/p>\n
\n DISCIPLINARY SUMMARY<\/p>\n
PHI \u2013 Olwethu Makhanya (caution) 41\u2019\u00a0
PHI \u2013 Jes\u00fas Bueno (caution) 45\u2019\u00a0
PHI \u2013 Ezekiel Alladoh (ejected) 59\u2019\u00a0
PHI \u2013 Japhet Sery Larsen (caution) 59\u2019\u00a0
PHI \u2013 Danley Jean Jacques (caution) 88\u2019\u00a0
DC \u2013 Jackson Hopkins (caution) 89\u2019\u00a0
DC \u2013 Jo\u00e3o Peglow (caution) 90\u2019+4<\/p>\n
\n LINEUP<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Union: Andre Blake, Japhet Sery Larsen, Olwethu Makhanya, Finn Sundstrom (Geiner Mart\u00ednez HT), Nathan Harriel, Danley Jean Jacques, Jes\u00fas Bueno (Agust\u00edn Anello 57\u2019 ), Indiana Vassilev (Alejandro Bedoya 79\u2019), Milan Iloski (Cavan Sullivan 70\u2019), Ezekiel Alladoh, Bruno Damiani (Stas Korzeniowski 79\u2019).<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used: Andrew Rick, Jeremy Rafanello, Sal Olivas<\/p>\n
D.C. United: Sean Johnson, Lucas Bartlett, Kye Rowles, Keisuke Kurokawa, Silvan Hefti, Brandon Servania, Matti Peltola, Jo\u00e3o Peglow, Jackson Hopkins ( Nikola Markovic 90\u2019), Tai Baribo ( Sean Nealis 90\u2019+3), Gabriel Pirani ( Louis Munteanu 70\u2019).<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used: Alex Bono, Jared Stroud, Caden Clark, Hosei Kijima, Conner Antley, Gavin Turner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union opened their MLS season against D.C. United at Audi Field, falling 1-0. Forward Tai Baribo scored…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,4093],"class_list":{"0":"post-120641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-press-release"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120641","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=120641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}