Philadelphia Union hosted Club Necaxa for the second match of Phase One for Leagues Cup on Sunday evening. Union Homegrown defender Nathan Harriel opened the scoring early with a right-footed shot to the back of the net in the third minute. Forward Bruno Damiani doubled the Union\u2019s lead in the 12th minute, scoring his first career goal in Leagues Cup play. After halftime, Philadelphia continued to apply attacking pressure. Homegrown midfielder Cavan Sullivan struck in the 53rd minute, also recording his first ever Leagues Cup goal. Club Necaxa responded with a goal in the 79th minute to shorten the Union\u2019s lead, but Homegrown goalkeeper Andrew Rick and the defense held strong to secure a 3-1 home victory for Philadelphia.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The Union will return to Subaru Park on Thursday, August 13th to host Santos Laguna in their third match of Phase One for the Leagues Cup (7:00 p.m. ET \/ Apple TV, FS1, Univision).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Philadelphia Union (3) \u2013 Club Necaxa (1)
Subaru Park (Chester, PA)\u00a0
Sunday, August 9, 2026<\/p>\n
\n TODAY\u2019S MATCH INFO<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Jefferson Escobar
Asst. Referee 1:\u00a0Walter L\u00f3pez
Asst. Referee 2:\u00a0Christian Ram\u00edrez
Fourth official:\u00a0Victor Rivas
VAR:\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Carlos Rivero
AVAR:\u00a0Lukasz Szpala<\/p>\n
\n SCORING SUMMARY<\/p>\n
PHI \u2013 Nathan Harriel (C. Sullivan) 3\u2019
PHI \u2013 Bruno Damiani (Harriel) 12\u2019
PHI \u2013 Cavan Sullivan (Vassilev) 53\u2019
NCX \u2013 Matias Espindola (Vargas, Pe\u00f1a) 79\u2019<\/p>\n
PHI \u2013 Neil Pierre (caution) 11\u2019\u00a0
NCX \u2013 Pedro Pedraza (caution) 35\u2019
PHI \u2013\u00a0 Indiana Vassilev (caution) 59\u2019\u00a0
PHI \u2013 Japhet Sery Larsen (caution) 64\u2019
NCX \u2013 Lorenzo Faravelli (caution) 87\u2019<\/p>\n
\n LINEUP<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Union: Andrew Rick, Kai Wagner (Frankie Westfield 60\u2019), Japhet Sery Larsen, Neil Pierre, Nathan Harriel, Danley Jean Jacques (Jesus Bueno 60\u2019), Jovan Lukic, Indiana Vassilev, Cavan Sullivan (Quinn Sullivan 60\u2019), Ezekiel Alladoh (Milan Iloski 60\u2019), Bruno Damiani (Malik Jakupovic 73\u2019).<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used: Andre Blake, George Marks, Geiner Martinez, Alejandro Bedoya, Jeremy Rafanello, Ben Bender, Agustin Anello.<\/p>\n
Club Nexaca: Luis Jimen\u00e9z, Francisco M\u00e9ndez, Alexis Pe\u00f1a, Ra\u00fal Mart\u00ednez (Naves 56\u2019), Daniel Leyva, Pedro Pedraza (Lorenzo Faravelli 64\u2019), Emilio Rodriguez (Ricardo Monreal 56\u2019), Carlos Vargas (Omar Dominguez 80\u2019), Matias Espindola, Juli\u00e1n Carranza, Javier Ruiz ( Owen Gonz\u00e1lez 64\u2019).<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used: Emilio Mart\u00ednez, Rogelio Cort\u00e9z, Agustin Oliveros, Christopher Andrade, Juan Torres, Juan Valencia, Javier Orantes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union hosted Club Necaxa for the second match of Phase One for Leagues Cup on Sunday evening.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,4093],"class_list":["post-262523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262523","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=262523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}