CHESTER, Pa. \u2014 Milan Iloski scored three goals, his second hat trick this season, Indiana Vassilev added a goal and two assists, and the Philadelphia Union beat Orlando City 4-2 on Saturday night for their sixth consecutive win.<\/p>\n
The Union (11-10-6 and 39 points in the MLS Eastern Conference) are unbeaten in 12 straight since their return from the World Cup break. Both the six wins in a row and the 12-match unbeaten streak are club records. Orlando City lost its second consecutive match after an unbeaten run of five games in a row.<\/p>\n
Iloski became the third player in club history with multiple hat tricks in the same season, joining Juli\u00e1n Carranza and D\u00e1niel Gazdag (2022). He has 16 goals on the season.<\/p>\n
Iloski converted from the penalty spot to open the scoring in the 11th minute. On the counter-attack, Iloski beat goalkeeper Maxime Cr\u00e9peau one on one to make it 2-0 in the 19th and bent a rising shot from 25 yards out inside the left post and under the crossbar to give Philadelphia a 4-0 lead in the 51st.<\/p>\n
Iv\u00e1n Angulo scored a goal for Orlando (10-13-4, 34 points) in the 78th minute and Mart\u00edn Ojeda capped the scoring in the 90th with his team-leading 13th goal. Ojeda tied former Lion Facundo Torres for the club\u2019s all-time scoring lead with his 47th goal across all competitions. Angulo has scored a goal in four consecutive games and has a career-high tying five goals this season.<\/p>\n
Antoine Griezmann returned after a one-game absence because of injury for Orlando and was largely neutralized. Angulo scored when Griezmann slipped a free kick into his path. It was Griezmann\u2019s 12th goal contribution in 11 games.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia is 10-2-0 during its unbeaten streak. The Union created separation with Orlando City to solidify their hold on sixth place in the East. Philly is three points behind Chicago and four behind Charlotte, both of whom they play in October.<\/p>\n
The Lions could have leaped over the Union and into sixth place with a victory. Instead, Orlando City is only one point ahead of three teams \u2014 Red Bull New York, New York City FC and FC Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
Five Orlando City players were unavailable after departing for international duty earlier this week. Justin Ellis joined the U.S. men\u2019s national team for his first senior call-up, while David Brekalo (Slovenia), Wilder Cartagena (Peru), Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107 (Croatia) and Tyrese Spicer (Trinidad & Tobago) also reported to their respective national teams during the FIFA international window.<\/p>\n
Ellis scored in his U.S. debut, a 4-1 friendly victory over Peru at Inter.co Stadium on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Orlando City: Hosts Columbus on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia: Hosts Salt Lake on Oct. 10.<\/p>\n
Orlando City signs midfielder<\/p>\n
Orlando City SC signed Orlando City B midfielder Justin Hylton to a short-term agreement, the club announced. Hylton was available for selection for Orlando City\u2019s match against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Hylton, 18, signed with Orlando City B on Dec. 16, 2025. The midfielder has made 18 starts in 33 appearances for the Lions in MLS NEXT Pro, recording four goals and four assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHESTER, Pa. \u2014 Milan Iloski scored three goals, his second hat trick this season, Indiana Vassilev added a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5918,34027,84660,69,71,70,11868,57932,726],"class_list":["post-294880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-florida","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-soccer","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294880","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=294880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}