{"id":258611,"date":"2026-08-03T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258611\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:46:10","slug":"ezekiel-alladoh-brings-late-game-heroics-for-philadelphia-energy-moment-of-the-matchday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258611\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel Alladoh brings late-game heroics for Philadelphia | Energy Moment of the Matchday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trailing 2-1 heading into added time vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/atlanta-united\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta United<\/a>, the Union embarked on an incredible late comeback, turning a two-goal deficit into a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2026\/matches\/phivsatl-08-01-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-2 win<\/a>, capped by Alladoh&#8217;s game-winner, which secured Energy\u00a0Moment of the Matchday presented by Celsius honors for Matchday 19.<\/p>\n<p>Teenage center back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/neil-pierre\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Pierre<\/a> handed Philly a lifeline in the 96th minute, rising highest to send his headed effort into the corner and level the contest at 2-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just seconds later, fans at Subaru Park exploded with excitement as Alladoh&#8217;s unbelievable volley completed a legendary turnaround for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>With the result, Philadelphia have now won three straight matches since the departure of head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/philadelphia-union-part-ways-with-bradley-carnell-name-new-sporting-director\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Carnell<\/a>. They&#8217;ve jumped from last in the East to 13th under interim head coach Ryan Richter.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia begin their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/leagues-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leagues Cup<\/a> 2026 campaign on Thursday when they host Cruz Azul (8 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/cruz-azul-vs-philadelphia-union\/umc.cse.5c3o10kmj83b2qi6zmpkleoy0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a>, FS1, Univision).<\/p>\n<p>The Union return to MLS play on August 16 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/new-york-city-football-club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City FC<\/a> (6 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/new-york-city-football-club-vs-philadelphia-union\/umc.cse.qcj0kvym2egfr4uq48u0if4d?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000%2Ctvs.sbd.4000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trailing 2-1 heading into added time vs. Atlanta United, the Union embarked on an incredible late comeback, turning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109782,73837,69,71,70,10227,109139,10226],"class_list":["post-258611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-energy-moment-of-the-matchday","tag-ezekiel-alladoh","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union","tag-phivsatl-08-01-2026","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258611","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=258611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}