{"id":256782,"date":"2026-07-31T23:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256782\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T23:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T23:46:17","slug":"availability-report-midfield-in-focus-as-5-stripes-head-north-to-face-philadelphia-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256782\/","title":{"rendered":"Availability report: Midfield in focus as 5-Stripes head north to face Philadelphia Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 5-Stripes are settling back into a more weekly rhythm after a busy stretch of back-to-back matches following the World Cup break. The team prepares for Saturday&#8217;s away match against Philadelphia Union, with\u00a0kickoff set for 7:30 p.m. ET. Atlanta United&#8217;s focus is on balancing the midfield despite four players being out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jay Fortune continues to recover from a hamstring issue, while the squad will also be without Cooper Sanchez, who is representing the United States at the 2026 Concacaf U-20 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>With two midfielders unavailable, the 5-Stripes will look to other options to step up. The likes of Will Reilly and Tristan Muyumba will likely be called upon again. We&#8217;ll see how head coach Tata Martino lines up the 5-Stripes tomorrow evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paulo D\u00edaz remains unavailable as he continues to work through the visa process,\u00a0and Sergio Santos is still working his way back from a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta United Availability Report &#8211; Friday, July 31<\/p>\n<p>Player<\/p>\n<p>Injury\/Reason<\/p>\n<p>Status<\/p>\n<p>Paulo D\u00edaz<\/p>\n<p>Visa Process<\/p>\n<p>Out<\/p>\n<p>Jay Fortune<\/p>\n<p>Hamstring<\/p>\n<p>Out<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Sanchez<\/p>\n<p>International Duty<\/p>\n<p>Out<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Santos<\/p>\n<p>Calf<\/p>\n<p>Out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 5-Stripes are settling back into a more weekly rhythm after a busy stretch of back-to-back matches following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45960,25123,139,69,71,70,109139],"class_list":["post-256782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-atlanta-united-fc","tag-availability-report","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phivsatl-08-01-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256782","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=256782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}