{"id":198895,"date":"2026-03-20T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198895\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:40:17","slug":"pride-looking-to-pick-up-points-against-expansion-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198895\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride looking to pick up points against expansion team"},"content":{"rendered":"

After dropping the season opener 2-1 to Seattle Reign FC<\/a>, the Orlando Pride<\/a> face another tough challenge against an expansion side that is fighting for its first win as an organization.<\/p>\n

Orlando (0-1-0, 0 points) welcomes Denver Summit FC<\/a> (0-1-0, 0 points) to Inter&Co Stadium<\/a> on Friday at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll want to come here and get off on the front foot, obviously, probably disappointed with the result last week against Bay FC. But yeah, they want to get off the mark. They want points on the board, and that\u2019s what we fully expect, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking to do as well,\u201d said Orlando head coach Seb Hines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really disappointed with the result, not the performance. I thought the performance was great, but we need to get points on the board as well. So, I feel like it\u2019ll be two teams who will be going out to get three points.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OrlandoOrlando coach Seb Hines coaches players during the Seattle Reign at Orlando Pride NWSL game in Orlando on Sunday. (Stephen M. Dowell\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n

Facing an expansion side can be difficult, since there is not much tape to look back on to prepare. Denver played much of its first match with only ten players, making it tough for Hines to evaluate just how good a team they are. Still, he knows his team is ready for the challenge and won\u2019t make it easy for the visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, they\u2019ll have set principles. There\u2019ll be certain personnel as well that we\u2019re aware of,\u201d Hines added. \u201cBut yeah, I think there\u2019s a lot of focus on ourselves. Can we build on what we did this past Sunday against Seattle? There was a lot of great moments. We just obviously didn\u2019t put the ball in the back of the net.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pride delayed by rain, then defeated by Reign<\/a><\/p>\n

Denver does feature two former Pride players in Ally Brazier and Carson Pickett. Hines acknowledged their contributions to the club, but his team is focused on making sure they don\u2019t leave Orlando with a victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re on different paths now and represent in Denver, and we know some of their tendencies and their qualities, what they possess,\u201d continued Hines, \u201cIt\u2019ll be probably a nice occasion for them to come back, and as long as they don\u2019t go and get away with anything, that\u2019s that\u2019s going to be our priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next game<\/p>\n

8 p.m. March 20 vs. Denver Summit<\/p>\n

Meet the 2026 Orlando Pride<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After dropping the season opener 2-1 to Seattle Reign FC, the Orlando Pride face another tough challenge against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,1335,139,141,140,3968,2062,76046,110],"class_list":["post-198895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-florida","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-pride","tag-soccer","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198895","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=198895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}