Philadelphia Union is set to return to Major League Soccer action on July 22nd following the conclusion of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.\u00a0In preparation for what\u2019s to come, the team hosted Houston Dynamo for a Saturday morning friendly in Chester.<\/p>\n
The match, which took place at the WSFS Bank Sportsplex, marked the team\u2019s first with Interim Head Coach Ryan Richter at the helm.<\/p>\n
\n Starting XI<\/p>\n
Bruno Damiani
Indiana Vassilev
Milan Iloski
Jovan Lukic
Jesus Bueno
Cavan Sullivan
Frankie Westfield
Neil Pierre
Nathan Harriel
Japhet Sery Larsen
Andre Blake<\/p>\n
\n Match Recap<\/p>\n
16′, Sullivan opens scoring | Cavan Sullivan scored the first of the day with a left footed shot from distance. His goal was assisted by Jesus Bueno.\u00a0<\/p>\n
29′, Another Homegrown goal | Neil Pierre found Frankie Westfield for a chipped shot over Houston’s keeper to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
54′, Second half subs | Richter made six changes to start the second half.<\/p>\n
Phillipe Ndinga
Eddy Davis III
Ben Bender
Malik Jakupovic
Geiner Martinez
George Marks<\/p>\n
54′ Houston goal | The visitors got one back in the 54th.\u00a0<\/p>\n
63′, More Union subs | Richter sent on Rafael Uzc\u00e1tegui, Giovanny Sequera, Jordan Griffin, Kellan LeBlanc, and Ezekiel Alladoh in the 63rd.<\/p>\n
90+’, Houston makes it 2-2 |\u00a0Houston scored another in the final minutes of action, finishing the match in a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union is set to return to Major League Soccer action on July 22nd following the conclusion of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6800,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-229824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-match-recap","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229824","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=229824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}