Analysis / Philadelphia Union II
by Tim Jones × on October 12, 2018 at 9:37 am ×
Here’s our best guess at how the east’s season finales will shake out into the conference playoff quarterfinals. Places 5 through 10 are separated by only four points, and Bethlehem’s outcomes range from fifth-place to missing out entirely. Even if there are five other major upsets, If Bethlehem wins on Sunday they will secure the last playoff spot.
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Player of the Week / Union
A brace to clinch a playoff spot and coast into a USMNT call-up? A brilliant Saturday night from Fafa Picault earns him Player of the Week honors.
Match Report / USL Match report
Bethlehem Steel are unable to steal fifth place from Indy Eleven on the road and still remain in playoff contention.
Philadelphia Union II
by Tim Jones × on October 3, 2018 at 11:30 am ×
Playing soccer in a minor league baseball park provides lots of ready-made seats, parking, concessions, and lights. But a quality soccer pitch? Not so much, not even with the oil billions in the Bronx.
Player of the Week / Union
The Jamaican keeper is consistently amazing, and that’s the best kind of consistency.
Philadelphia Union II
Bethlehem went up to Canada’s capital and came back with a point.
Player of the Week / Union
Tripling your MLS goal scoring record will do that.
USL Match report
by Tim Jones × on September 23, 2018 at 11:45 am ×
The game was a “must-win” against a team that had scored 16 goals in its previous six games. Bethlehem Steel FC prevailed 4-0 to remain in 6th place in the USL eastern conference playoff race with three more games to play.
People in the Stadium
Breakdancers. At a Union game. One is called Fish. PSP’s Gerald Van Wilgen continues his series of profiles of interesting people he sees around the stadium.
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