{"id":317499,"date":"2026-10-30T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317499\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:40:08","slug":"cincinnati-hosts-the-philadelphia-union-in-conference-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317499\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati hosts the Philadelphia Union in conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/philadelphia-union-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Union<\/a> (13-11-8, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/fc-cincinnati-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FC Cincinnati<\/a> (11-11-10, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Cincinnati; Saturday, 2 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LINE: FC Cincinnati +143, Philadelphia +145, Draw +294; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Cincinnati and the Philadelphia Union meet in conference action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Cincinnati is 9-9-7 in Eastern Conference play. Cincinnati has a 42-3-6 record in games it scores three or more goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Union are 9-10-5 against Eastern Conference teams. The Union have a 29-2-8 record in games they score two goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The matchup Saturday is the second meeting this season between the two teams. The Union won the last game 5-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/kevin-denkey-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Denkey<\/a> has scored 17 goals and added two assists for Cincinnati. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/tom-barlow-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Barlow<\/a> has four goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/milan-iloski-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Iloski<\/a> has scored 19 goals with three assists for the Union. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/bruno-damiani-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Damiani<\/a> has nine goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Cincinnati: 15-9-6, averaging 5.1 goals, 18.0 shots on goal and 16.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 6.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Union: 22-1-7, averaging 8.4 goals, 19.2 shots on goal and 17.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Cincinnati: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/julian-malatini-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Malatini<\/a> (injured), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/miles-robinson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Robinson<\/a> (injured), Tyrell Malacia (injured).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Union: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/cavan-sullivan-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cavan Sullivan<\/a> (injured), Bruno Damiani (injured), Milan Iloski (injured), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/jesus-bueno-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus Bueno<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Union (13-11-8, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. FC Cincinnati (11-11-10, sixth in the Eastern Conference) Cincinnati;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11682,4095,26004,73836,117599,11938,129356,11616,69,71,70,129355,117600],"class_list":["post-317499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-bruno-damiani","tag-cavan-sullivan","tag-fc-cincinnati","tag-jesus-bueno","tag-kevin-denkey","tag-milan-iloski","tag-miles-robinson","tag-mls","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-tom-barlow","tag-united-soccer-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317499","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=317499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}