ORLANDO, Fla. (March\u00a01, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City SC (0-2-0, 0 points) fell to Inter Miami CF (1-1-0, 3 points) on Sunday night at\u00a0Inter&Co\u00a0Stadium by a 4-2 score. The loss marks the first time the Lions have been defeated at home by their rivals from\u00a0South Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orlando City jumped out to a two-goal lead with Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107 and Mart\u00edn Ojeda scoring within the first 25 minutes. The goals were the first for each in the 2026 campaign. Pa\u0161ali\u0107 has now scored in four straight matches against the Herons, finding the net in every\u00a0appearance\u00a0across all\u00a0competitions that\u00a0he has made against Miami.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Defender Nolan Miller made his first professional start, earning the nod in the Lions\u2019 backline after making his pro debut in last week\u2019s season opener.\u00a0However, he exited the match in the 59th minute after going down with an injury.\u00a019-year-old\u00a0Tahir Reid-Brown also entered the starting lineup, making his First Team debut for the\u00a0Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lions will next hit the road for the first time in their 2026 campaign, taking on New York City FC at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, March 7. Kickoff is set for\u00a02:30\u00a0p.m. ET\u00a0on Apple TV.<\/p>\n
\n Head Coach Oscar Pareja:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a much better version of us today. Obviously, not getting the result in front of our fans and conceding those goals in the second half was painful for us. But overall,\u00a0it was a much better version of our team. The boys played a good game. There is not much to be disappointed with. It was\u00a0a very competitive\u00a0match as always against Miami. I thought in the first half, tactically, the boys did\u00a0a good job. In the second half,\u00a0we got unorganized, especially in the final third when Miami was better. We cannot give those spaces. We knew that, and we still conceded them, and then we conceded goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (March\u00a01, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City SC (0-2-0, 0 points) fell to Inter Miami CF (1-1-0, 3 points)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7705,76792,32007,7700,4792,4789,4787,115,78411,139,4786,4788,141,140,79600,9650],"class_list":["post-174679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-colin-guske","tag-griffin-dorsey","tag-ivan-angulo","tag-marco-pasalic","tag-martin-ojeda","tag-match-report","tag-matchday","tag-news","tag-nolan-miller","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlvsmia-03-01-2026","tag-tahir-reid-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}