{"id":265798,"date":"2026-08-15T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265798\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:52:08","slug":"philadelphia-union-look-to-end-road-losing-streak-in-matchup-with-new-york-city-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265798\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union look to end road losing streak in matchup with New York City FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Union<\/a> (4-10-4, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York City FC<\/a> (7-6-5, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

The Bronx, New York; Sunday, 6 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: NYCFC +124, Philadelphia +189, Draw +258; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Union visit New York City FC aiming to end a four-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n

NYCFC is 6-4-3 in Eastern Conference play. NYCFC ranks third in the Eastern Conference allowing only 24 goals.<\/p>\n

The Union are 3-9-3 against Eastern Conference teams. The Union are 10-2-0 when they score two goals.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nicolas Ezequiel Fernandez Mercau<\/a> has 13 goals and two assists for NYCFC. Axel Ojeda has scored three goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Milan Iloski<\/a> has scored 10 goals with one assist for the Union. Neil Pierre<\/a> has two goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: NYCFC: 16-6-8, averaging 4.8 goals, 13.2 shots on goal and 7.2 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Union: 15-6-9, averaging 5.7 goals, 17.1 shots on goal and 16.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 6.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: NYCFC: Arnau Farnos<\/a> (injured), Drew Baiera<\/a> (injured), Raul Gustavo<\/a> (injured), Adrian Alonso Martinez Batista (injured), Aiden O’Neill (injured), Kai Trewin<\/a> (injured), Maxi Moralez<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

Union: Philippe Ndinga<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union (4-10-4, 12th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New York City FC (7-6-5, fourth in the Eastern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112199,112200,112202,112203,11938,11616,4856,59197,69,71,70,112204,112201],"class_list":["post-265798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-arnau-farnos","tag-drew-baiera","tag-kai-trewin","tag-maxi-moralez","tag-milan-iloski","tag-mls","tag-neil-pierre","tag-nycfc","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philippe-ndinga","tag-raul-gustavo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265798","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=265798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}