{"id":177517,"date":"2026-03-04T08:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177517\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:24:25","slug":"match-report-orlando-city-b-falls-3-1-to-huntsville-city-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177517\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: Orlando City B\u00a0Falls 3-1 to\u00a0Huntsville City FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KISSIMMEE, Fla. (March 2, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City B (0-1-0, 0 points)\u00a0fell to Huntsville City FC (1-0-0, 3 points) by a score of 3-1 on Monday night at Osceola County Stadium in its first match of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions went down midway through the first half after conceding twice in a five-minute span. OCB responded with sustained pressure, as Zakaria Taifi sent a shot from outside the box just wide. Moments later, Gustavo Caraballo slipped a through ball to Harvey\u00a0Sarajian, who weaved past two defenders and finished past a charging Huntsville goalkeeper for his first professional goal.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Javier Otero came up big in the 55th minute, stopping a Huntsville penalty kick\u2014his fifth all-time across all competitions for the Lions. Huntsville extended its lead seven minutes later when Shak Mohammed intercepted a ball in midfield and lofted a long chip under the crossbar for his second goal of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando City B returns to action Sunday, March 8, against Chicago Fire FC II. Kickoff at Osceola County Stadium is set for 7 p.m. ET, with the match streaming on OneFootball and MLSNEXTPro.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KISSIMMEE, Fla. (March 2, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City B (0-1-0, 0 points)\u00a0fell to Huntsville City FC (1-0-0, 3 points)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7703,83931,7704,4789,115,139,18312,141,140,82638],"class_list":{"0":"post-177517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-gustavo-caraballo","9":"tag-harvey-sarajian","10":"tag-javier-otero","11":"tag-match-report","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-orlando-city-b","15":"tag-orlando-headlines","16":"tag-orlando-news","17":"tag-orlvshnt-03-02-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177517","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=177517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}