PBP: 2022 US Open Cup Round of 32: Orlando City SC v Union, May 10, 2022 p/d/p (R)

Who plays this weekend will be a good prediction of who wins and which team(s) value the cup.

 

https://www.inquirer.com/soccer/us-open-cup-philadelphia-union-orlando-city-20220509.html

Aaronson, Real, Sullivan, Findlay, Freeze, Mbaizo to start on Tuesday. Martinez and Uhre not making the trip due to injury.

 

Excited to see this young lineup. Would have liked to have seen Jesus Bueno, but I guess he didn’t make it due to foreign player limitations.

 

Yeah, that and the limited "American" options at striker, meant he was the likely odd man out. Unfortunate.

 

Matt Freese doing his best Andre Blake impression at the end of the half to keep it 0-0

 

1-0 Orlando off of a deflected shot in the box.

Union should really sub Burke out. His body language is not good, among all of the usual stuff that doesn';t click.

Edit: now 2-0 on a long shot from 30 yds

 

2-1 now as Stuart Findlay (?!?!?!?) pulls one back

 

Union had too much possession.

 

It's time to find a replacement for Burke.....they were toothless in attack until he came out.

 

They lost. I honestly don't really care. Glad they can focus on the league.

 

[Rant]
I really have problems with the MLS-haters who value every single other competition besides the actual MLS Cup. If we really want to make MLS as popular as possible in the US, we need to focus on league competition first.

Let's be honest, if there was no FA Cup, very few Americans would care about the US Open Cup.[/Rant]