{"id":305106,"date":"2026-10-12T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305106\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:38:09","slug":"match-thoughts-philadelphia-union-2-real-salt-lake-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305106\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Thoughts: Philadelphia Union 2, Real Salt Lake 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!JFsW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11e9716b-f7b3-4812-b222-c5a263cc0c59_3000x2000.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/11e9716b-f7b3-4812-b222-c5a263cc0c59_3000.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"971\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/11e9716b-f7b3-4812-b222-c5a263cc0c59_3000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:4825396,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/unionsoccerblog.substack.com\/i\/220018358?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F11e9716b-f7b3-4812-b222-c5a263cc0c59_3000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHESTER \u2014 Patience paid off for the Philadelphia Union in their 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the most attractive game of the soccer the Union have played under interim head coach Ryan Richter, but it might end up being one of the most important. <\/p>\n<p>Real Salt Lake\u2019s defense was difficult to break down, and in previous seasons, the Union might not have been able to work through the lines and score. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the season you\u2019re going to have to win games like these where I don\u2019t think it was our best night. We got the win, though,\u201d Union goalkeeper Andre Blake said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHESTER \u2014 Patience paid off for the Philadelphia Union in their 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-305106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305106","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=305106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}