Orlando City vs Houston Dynamo Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Orlando City

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Orlando City head into this fixture coming off the back of a 1-1 MLS stalemate versus New Eng. Revolution.

In that match, Orlando City managed 47% possession and 13 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Orlando City was Robin Jansson (35'). New Eng. Revolution got 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Carles Gil (22') scored for New Eng. Revolution.

Orlando City have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets recently, but they’ve also managed to hit the back of the net themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Orlando City have seen their goal breached in 5 of them while also managing to get on the scoresheet in 6 of those matches.

Houston Dynamo

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Following on from being defeated in their last game at the hands of Real Salt Lake in MLS competition, Houston Dynamo and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Houston Dynamo had 47% possession and 13 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. For their opponents, Real Salt Lake had 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Bobby Wood (29'), Sergio Córdova (57') and Justen Glad (92') scored for Real Salt Lake.

A tendency of at least one team drawing a blank in games featuring Houston Dynamo has been apparent of late. Looking at their last 6 games shows that it’s occurred 5 times. During these clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal total of 6 and Houston Dynamo have scored 7. We will have to see if that trend will end up being sustained here.

↔️ Head to head

The last league contest between these sides was MLS match day 38 on 22/09/2019 when it ended Houston Dynamo 2-1 Orlando City.

In that game, Houston Dynamo had 48% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The goals were scored by Alberth Elis (70') and Christian Ramírez (73').

Orlando City had 7 shots on goal with 3 on target. Dom Dwyer (6') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Rubiel Vazquez.

📰 Team News: Orlando City

Antônio Carlos (Torn Muscle) and Gastón González (Cruciate Ligament Surgery) won’t be playing for Orlando City boss Óscar Pareja.

It looks as if The Lions could line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one featuring Pedro Gallese, Kyle Smith, Robin Jansson, Ruan, Joao Moutinho, Cesar Araujo, Jake Mulraney, Junior Urso, Mauricio Pereira, Facundo Torres and Ercan Kara.

📰 Team News: Houston Dynamo

With a fully healthy group to choose from, the Houston Dynamo boss Paulo Nagamura has no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this game.

We believe Orange Crush might utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup with a starting lineup of Steve Clark, Zeca, Tim Parker, T. Lingani Hadebe, Adam Lundqvist, Ethan Bartlow, Matias Vera, Corey Baird, Memo Rodriguez, Roberto Avila and Carlos Ferreira.

🔮 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Houston Dynamo will really need to work well to get anything against this Orlando City team who we think will likely get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

We’ve gone for a highly competitive game with a 1-0 winning margin for Orlando City after 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 10:14 14/06/2022