{"id":306494,"date":"2026-10-14T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306494\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:14:09","slug":"crunch-time-for-ryan-richters-philadelphia-union-the-philly-soccer-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/306494\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunch Time for Ryan Richter\u2019s Philadelphia Union \u2013 The Philly Soccer Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Earl Gardner<\/p>\n<p>This evening, Wednesday, October 14th, the Philadelphia Union begins the 15-day stretch of the season that will determine whether they will rise enough in the MLS Eastern Conference table to host a home playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>We give the eastern conference standings as they were Monday morning, October 12th, together with the season\u2019s earlier results against those teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Day, Date<\/p>\n<p>Venue, OPPONENT<br \/>\nStandings, Mo Oct-12<br \/>\nPrevious 2026 result<\/p>\n<p>We, Oct-14<br \/>\nAway, CHICAGO<br \/>\n3rd<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mar-21, Home, Loss, 2-1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sa, Oct-17<\/p>\n<p>Home, CHARLOTTE<br \/>\n5th<br \/>\nApr-4 ,Away, Loss, 2-1<\/p>\n<p>Sa, Oct-24<br \/>\nHome, NEW ENGLAND<br \/>\n4th<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May-9, Away, Loss, 2-1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We, Oct-28<\/p>\n<p>Away, NASHVILLE<br \/>\n1st<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">May-2, Home, Draw, 0-0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The three previous losses were all by one goal.\u00a0 Also, Nashville have already clinched a playoff spot, and they are still able to set a new record for total points in a season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Philadelphia\u2019s maximum possible total points for the season is 60. Nashville already has accumulated 63, so Philadelphia cannot finish in first place in the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Earl Gardner This evening, Wednesday, October 14th, the Philadelphia Union begins the 15-day stretch of the season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-306494","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\/306494","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=306494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}