📏 Form Guide

Orlando City

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Orlando City will be wanting a better result here following a 1-2 MLS loss in their previous game against Toronto FC.

In that game, Orlando City had 49% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Orlando City was Duncan McGuire (37'). For their opponents, Toronto FC had 13 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Tyrese Spicer (87') and Prince Osei Owusu (90') scored for Toronto FC.

It has been all too rare in recent times where Orlando City have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Orlando City have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 9 goals during that time.

FC Cincinatti

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FC Cincinatti will go into the meeting after a 2-1 MLS win with the downing of Colorado Rapids in their previous game.

In that match, FC Cincinatti had 59% possession and 25 shots at goal with 9 on target. For FC Cincinatti, goals were scored by Luciano Acosta (42') and Corey Baird (64'). Colorado Rapids got 9 shots at goal with 3 on target. Moïse Bombito (72') was the scorer for Colorado Rapids.

Over the course of their last six outings, FC Cincinatti have bagged a tally of 8 goals. FC Cincinatti have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. During those fixtures, they have seen 7 goals go into their own net. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward here, of course.

👥 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 07/08/2021, both clubs have shared the honours with Orlando City winning 2 of those games, FC Cincinatti 2 and 2 being drawn in regulation time.

8 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 4 of them for The Lions and 4 belonging to Cincinatti. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.33.

The last league meeting featuring these clubs was MLS match day 39 on 02/09/2023 when it ended FC Cincinatti 0-1 Orlando City.

In that match, FC Cincinatti had 57% possession and 13 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

For their opponents, Orlando City had 10 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. Facundo Torres (44') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Drew Fischer.

🗞️ Team News: Orlando City

Looking at personnel, there is just the sole fitness concern for the Orlando City manager Óscar Pareja to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength squad. Ramiro Enrique (Ankle injury) won’t play.

It looks as if The Lions will possibly make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation for this game with Pedro Gallese, D. Dan Thorhallsson, R. Adrian Schlegel, Robin Jansson, Rafael Santos, Cesar Araujo, Wilder Cartagena, Martin Ojeda, Facundo Torres, Ivan Angulo and Duncan McGuire.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Cincinatti

Thanks to a completely injury-free squad to choose from, the FC Cincinatti boss Pat Noonan has no fitness worries to speak of coming into this clash.

We’re of the thinking that FC Cincinatti will likely make use of a 3-4-1-2 lineup with a starting lineup of Roman Celentano, Miles Robinson, Matt Miazga, Ian Murphy, DeAndre Yedlin, Luca Orellano, Obinna Nwobodo, Pavel Bucha, Luciano Acosta, Corey Baird and Yuya Kubo.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that FC Cincinatti will need things to go their way to break down this Orlando City side who we think will likely manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore fancy a 1-0 winning score for Orlando City at the end of the match.

Let’s see.

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Renata Leite, 23:20 04/05/2024