Academy amateur Matheus De Paula scored for the second straight match but it wasn’t enough as Philadelphia Union II fell to Toronto FC II by a 2-1 margin on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Toronto FC II opened the scoring in the 41st minute when Fletcher Bank found the back of the net off an assist from Campbell-Dennis, giving the home side a 1-0 lead heading into halftime.<\/p>\n
Toronto doubled their advantage shortly after the break, with Tristan Blyth scoring in the 51st minute, again assisted by Campbell-Dennis, to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
Union II responded in the 61st minute through Academy midfielder Matheus De Paula, who delivered a standout strike from well outside the box to cut the deficit in half. The goal gave Philadelphia a push in the final stretch of the match as Union II searched for a late equalizer.<\/p>\n
Despite the second-half response, Union II could not find another breakthrough before the final whistle, falling 2-1 on the road.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Union II will travel to the Sportsplex at Matthews to face Crown Legacy on Friday, June 5th at 7:00 p.m. ET, with the match available to watch on OneFootball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Academy amateur Matheus De Paula scored for the second straight match but it wasn’t enough as Philadelphia Union…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4858,69,71,70,4857,90608,4092],"class_list":["post-205954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mls-next-pro","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union-ii","tag-torvsphi-05-29-2026","tag-union-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205954","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=205954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}