D.C. United vs Orlando City Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

D.C. United

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D.C. United will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 2-0 MLS loss in their previous game against Columbus Crew.

In that match, D.C. United managed 53% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 3 on target. On the other side, Columbus Crew got 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Lucas Zelarayán (10', 44') scored for Columbus Crew.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where D.C. United have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, D.C. United have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 16 goals in the process. We will see if that trend will end up being continued on here.

Orlando City

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In their previous fixture, Orlando City drew 0-0 in the CONCACAF Champions League match with Tigres de la UANL.

The attacking players from Orlando City have made hard work of scoring goals in their past 6 encounters, contributing the unsatisfactory return of only 4. In those fixtures, The Lions have also seen the collective goal tally of their opponents equal 7.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 31/03/2019 shows that D.C. United have won 4 of these and Orlando City 2, with the number of drawn matches being 0.

An aggregate of 19 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 11 for Black-and-Red and 8 netted by The Lions. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league game between the two was MLS match day 32 on 31/07/2022 when the final score was D.C. United 2-1 Orlando City.

On that occasion, D.C. United had 56% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Goals were scored by Chris Durkin (91') and Taxiarchis Fountas (95').

Orlando City got 15 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Júnior Urso (9') was the scorer.

The referee was Armando Villareal.

ℹ️ Team News: D.C. United

Jacob Greene (Thigh Problems), Taxiarchis Fountas (Muscle Injury), Brendan Hines-Ike (Foot Injury) and Martín Rodríguez (Cruciate Ligament Rupture) won’t be available for D.C. United manager Wayne Rooney.

It seems likely that Black-and-Red could make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation for the game featuring Tyler Miller, Ruan, Derrick Williams, Steven Birnbaum, Mohanad Jeahze, Mateusz Klich, Russell Canouse, Christopher Durkin, Theodore Ku-DiPietro, Pedro Santos and Christian Benteke.

ℹ️ Team News: Orlando City

Orlando City boss Óscar Pareja has to currently contend with reduced team options. Jack Lynn (Hamstring Injury), Favian Loyola (Hamstring Injury) and Antônio Carlos (Leg Injury) will miss out on this game.

We are inclined to think that The Lions could decide to begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 system, choosing Pedro Gallese, Abdi Salim, R. Adrian Schlegel, Kyle Smith, Facundo Torres, Rafael Santos, Mauricio Pereira, Wilder Cartagena, Ivan Angulo, D. Dan Thorhallsson and Duncan McGuire.

✨ Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Orlando City and D.C. United could find scoring goals difficult here.

Let’s see how it plays out, but a draw with few scoring chances is looking likely to us. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even match with a 0-0 score at full-time.

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Lucas Pereira, 02:24 08/03/2023