The Orlando City Herald
Match27 Oct 2027
Job done: Orlando City advance past New England Revolution
The tie is over and the right side of it is theirs. 3‑1 on the night, a dressing room that will not come down for a day and a half, and a next round nobody has thought about yet.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
A brace, and Antoine Griezmann takes the afternoon — 9.08
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Antoine Griezmann provided it, and the 9.08 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match27 Oct 2027
Still nobody has beaten Orlando City
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match1 Nov 2027
Orlando City refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 47 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Age has not caught Alejandro Bedoya yet — 8.26
At 40 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.26 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Marco Pašalić is carrying Orlando City
11 goals and a season average of 7.66. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad1 Nov 2027
David Brekalo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match27 Oct 2027
Nobody wins at Orlando City
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match27 Oct 2027
Orlando City settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. New England Revolution spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Marco Pašalić
- Squad The manager has not finished forgetting Braian Ojeda's mistake
- Squad Maxime Crépeau lets one through his hands