Orlando City interim head coach Martin Perelman\u2019s reign kicked off on Saturday night with a 2-1 victory over CF Montreal at Inter&Co Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been working hard, and we try to be pragmatic, we try to be versatile, we try to put a lot of energy in a difficult context to bring some happiness to our people. This is what the players did,\u201d Perelman said. \u201cThis is how we embrace the situation and fight. But again, I think this game belongs to the players. This game belongs to the players. And the players did an amazing effort. This is only because of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duncan McGuire opened the scoring with his first goal of the season in the 18th minute. Marco Pasalic\u2019s shot bounced off a defender, Ivan Angulo then fired it at the crossbar, and McGuire was there to bury it into the open net for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Montreal evened it up at 1 in the 24th minute thanks to a goal off a set piece. Wiki Carmona\u2019s corner kick met the head of Prince Owusu, who had no trouble getting it past Javier Otero to draw level.<\/p>\n
Martin Ojeda made it 2-1 in the 31st minute off an impressive bit of team play. Angulo and McGuire connected on the breakaway before Angulo centered the ball for Martin Ojeda to blast home.<\/p>\n
Montreal (1-3-0) was threatening in a nervy last 15 minutes, but defensive substitutions for Orlando (1-3-0) held firm against Montreal\u2019s attack to keep the lead and earn the first win of the season for the Lions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the boys showed a lot of energy and heart tonight,\u201d added McGuire after the match. \u201cI think just trying to replicate that every week from here on out, I think that\u2019s the main key that we\u2019re going to focus on, and I think that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to need if we\u2019re going to be successful this season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next up for the Lions is a trip to Nashville next Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando City interim head coach Martin Perelman\u2019s reign kicked off on Saturday night with a 2-1 victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,1335,139,4788,141,140,2062,76046,110],"class_list":["post-192136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-soccer","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192136","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=192136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}