Who: Orlando City v. Houston Dynamo When: Saturday, September 22 @ 6:30 pm CDT Where: Orlando City Stadium; Orlando, FL Records: Orlando City (7-18-3), 11th in East Houston Dynamo (8-13-7), 9th in West TV: KUBE-57 Radio: 650 am/1010 am (Spanish) This is the 29th regular season game of the year for Houston and Orlando. The Dynamo beat Orlando 4-0 at home in May of 2017 in the most recent meeting. The last (and only) time Houston went to Orlando was a 0-0 draw in 2016. Orlando's most recent game was a road loss,4-0, at Chicago on September 16. Orlando is 0-4-1 in their last five league games scoring 5 goals and allowing 12. The Lions are 5-6-3 in home league games so far this year. They next travel to Dallas on October 6. The Dynamo are now 1-3-1 in the last five league games scoring 8 goals and allowing 9. Houston is 1-8-4 so far in road league games this year. The Dynamo next host Philadelphia in the U.S. Open Cup final on Wednesday, September 26 and then host San Jose on Saturday, September 29.
Match Preview: https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2018-09-22-orlando-city-sc-vs-houston-dynamo/preview ORLANDO Suspended: None Suspended after next caution: M - Sacha Kljestan, F - Dom Dwyer International duty: None Injury Report: OUT: GK - Mason Stajduhar (Localized Ewing Sarcoma), D - Chris Schuler (groin injury); QUESTIONABLE: D - Lamine Sane (quad injury) Projected Starting XI (4-2-3-1, right to left) GK: Joe Bendik — Scott Sutter, Shane O’Neill, Jonathan Spector, Carlos Ascues — Uri Rosell, Yoshi Yotun — Josue Colman, Sacha Kljestan, Mohamed El-Munir — Dom Dwyer HOUSTON Suspended: None Suspended after next caution: M - Boniek Garcia, M - Adam Lundqvist, M - Darwin Ceren International duty: None Injury Report: OUT: D - A.J. DeLaGarza (torn left ACL), F - Mac Steeves Projected Starting XI (4-3-3, right to left) GK: Joe Willis — Andrew Wenger, Jared Watts, Alejandro Fuenmayor, DaMarcus Beasley — Tomas Martinez, Eric Alexander, Boniek Garcia — Alberth Elis, Mauro Manotas, Romell Quioto OFFICIALS Referee: Baldomero Toledo Assistant Referees: Frank Anderson, Corey Parker 4th Official: Sorin Stoica VAR: Younes Marrakchi
Weather forecast for Orlando on Saturday night. At 7 pm EDT: 82F 74% humidity wind 10 mph E Mostly cloudy 6% chance of rain As the game goes on the temps will stay about the same but the humidity will rise to about 85%. The chance of rain increases to 23% by the end of the game. Local sunset is at 7:23 pm so no direct sun for the game.
Probably would need San Jose in it to be worst game of year, but maybe this is the “No One Cares Derby”
As a Chicago Bears fan, there have been a lot of years where the best cure for a team in a slump was to play against the Bears. That's kind of been the Dynamo this year. Want to break out of a slump? Play the Dynamo.
You’re guessing B team and haha he starts an A side like we don’t have a midweek cup final Houston Dynamo: “Squirrel!!”
How are we reversing judgment calls by the center on video review by the center I could understand missed calls but everyone saw the play happen
You’d think he’d rest a few guys . . . Seems like the lineup he put out tonight was one where he’s acting like every regular season win matters a ton - or he’s got some job security issue (unlikely after being extended).
Not too bad of a professional game tonight. Willis stopped several of their efforts that woulda been goals. Our goal was taken back. Game got chippy at the end. On to Wednesday!
Meanwhile, the Union start Bethlehem Steel against SKC today, so they will be nice and fresh for this week.
My concern would be that while to the informed fan that defense might have looked like the A Team, it won't in fact be so. That we have "saved" Senderos and Machado (and maybe Leonardo) for the final. In which case a reasonable guess would be we intend to field 4-5 of the attackers who played 45-90 minutes Saturday (everyone but Ceren) plus the defensive veterans who cost us so many of this year's goals and games. If they do that they just underline we don't plan ahead nor do we have a good eye for talent evaluation and accountability. Our defense Saturday gave up plenty of chances, but they also hustled and didn't allow free runs at the goal. So they got away with a rare clean sheet. I realize Garcia bumping his men off of shots is low end mediocrity but relative to Machado drinking a coke while his man goes in untouched and scores, it's competence.