{"id":252186,"date":"2026-07-26T04:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252186\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:03:38","slug":"match-recap-sounders-fc-drops-1-0-road-result-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252186\/","title":{"rendered":"MATCH RECAP: Sounders FC Drops 1-0 Road Result in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHESTER, PENN. \u2013 Sounders FC (7-6-3, 24 points) fell 1-0 on the road to the Philadelphia Union (3-10-4, 13 points) on Saturday evening at Subaru Park. The result marks the fifth consecutive loss for the Rave Green, as Brian Schmetzer\u2019s side concludes its three-match road stretch next Saturday, August 1 at Portland (7:30 p.m. PT \/ Apple TV, FS1, FOX Deportes, iHeartMedia Seattle, El Rey 1360 AM).<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, Seattle sits in eighth place in the Western Conference with 24 points (7-6-3).<\/p>\n<p>This marked the 14th regular-season matchup between Seattle and Philadelphia, with the Union leading the series 6-5-3.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s match was the first Eastern Conference opponent Seattle has played this year. The Rave Green still have matches remaining against FC Cincinnati, Chicago Fire, Red Bull New York, the New England Revolution and CF Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>Tacoma Defiance defender Gallatin Sandnes made his Sounders FC debut in the 59th minute. He was available for this match via Short-Term Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight marked the fifth consecutive loss for Seattle, tying a club record. The Rave Green also lost five straight from July 11, 2015 \u2013 August 9, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Schmetzer made four changes to the lineup from Wednesday\u2019s match against Austin with Kalani Kossa-Rienzi, Antino Lopez, Paul Arriola and Osaze De Rosario replacing Peter Kingston, Jackson Ragen, Jes\u00fas Ferreira and Danny Musovski.<\/p>\n<p>The Rave Green conclude their three-match road stretch next Saturday, August 1 at Portland (7:30 p.m. PT \/ Apple TV, FS1, FOX Deportes, iHeartMedia Seattle, El Rey 1360 AM).<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Sounders FC 0 \u2013 Philadelphia Union 1<\/p>\n<p>Assistants: Adam Wienckowski, Ben Pilgrim<\/p>\n<p>Fourth Official: Sergii Demianchuk<\/p>\n<p>Weather: 75 degrees and sunny<\/p>\n<p>PHI \u2013 Milan Iloski (Frankie Westfield, Neil Piere) 31\u2019<\/p>\n<p>SEA \u2013 Hassani Dotson (caution) 12\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Sounders FC \u2013 Andrew Thomas; Kalani Kossa-Rienzi (Peter Kingston 59\u2019), Stuart Hawkins, Antino Lopez (Gallatin Sandnes* 59\u2019), Nouhou \u2013 Captain; Hassani Dotson (Sebastian Gomez 80\u2019), Snyder Brunell; Paul Arriola (Jes\u00fas Ferreira 59\u2019), Albert Rusn\u00e1k, Paul Rothrock; Osaze De Rosario (Danny Muosvski 80\u2019)<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes not used: Stefan Frei, Max Anchor, Yeimar G\u00f3mez Andrade<\/p>\n<p>*Tacoma Defiance player available via Short-Term Agreement<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Union \u2013 Andre Blake; Kai Wagner, Nathan Harriel, Neil Pierre, Frankie Westfield; Indiana Vassilev (Quinn Sullivan 65\u2019), Danley Jean Jacques (Jesus Bueno 80\u2019), Jovan Lukic, Cavan Sullivan (Alejandro Bedoya 89\u2019;); Bruno Damiani (Ezekiel Alladoh 65\u2019), Milan Iloski<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes not used: Andrew Rick, Ben Bender, Sery Larsen, Geiner Mart\u00ednez, Agust\u00edn Anello<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHESTER, PENN. \u2013 Sounders FC (7-6-3, 24 points) fell 1-0 on the road to the Philadelphia Union (3-10-4,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2358,107727,6800,139,69,71,70,107111,4093,90074],"class_list":["post-252186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-2358","tag-app-news","tag-match-recap","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phivssea-07-25-2026","tag-press-release","tag-seattle-sounders-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252186","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=252186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}