ORLANDO, Fla. (April\u00a022, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City SC (2-6-1,\u00a07\u00a0points)\u00a0defeated\u00a0Charlotte FC\u00a0(4-3-2, 14 points)\u00a04-1\u00a0behind a Mart\u00edn Ojeda brace\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0night at\u00a0Inter&Co\u00a0Stadium. <\/p>\n
The Lions\u00a0opened\u00a0the scoring in the 21st\u00a0minute when Midfielder Lu\u00eds Ot\u00e1vio\u00a0hit an outside-the-foot shot from\u00a0distance\u00a0off\u00a0a\u00a0ball\u00a0from Zakaria\u00a0Taifi. The\u00a0goal\u00a0was\u00a0Lu\u00eds\u00a0Ot\u00e1vio\u2019s\u00a0first\u00a0professional\u00a0tally, while\u00a0Taifi recorded\u00a0his\u00a0second career assist. <\/p>\n
Charlotte FC responded\u00a0in the 33rd\u00a0minute through Morrison Agyemang, who found the back of the net\u00a0off of\u00a0a corner kick\u00a0to level the\u00a0match. <\/p>\n
The teams went into halftime level before\u00a0City\u00a0regained\u00a0its\u00a0lead\u00a0just\u00a0four minutes into the second half off a strike from Ojeda.\u00a0Tiago found\u00a0Justin Ellis, who drove into the box before laying off a ball that\u00a0Ojeda struck home on his first touch. <\/p>\n
Ojeda added his second goal of the match in the 61st\u00a0minute\u00a0off a direct free kick,\u00a0bending his shot around the wall\u00a0to\u00a0beat Kristijan Kahlina at his near post. The brace marked\u00a0the\u00a0second time this season the\u00a0midfielder\u00a0has recorded a multi-goal performance. <\/p>\n
The Lions\u00a0added a\u00a0fourth goal\u00a0in stoppage time\u00a0as\u00a0Orlando City B\u00a0midfielder Ignacio G\u00f3mez, on\u00a0short-term agreement through the weekend,\u00a0scored his first career MLS goal\u00a0in his second career\u00a0MLS\u00a0appearance.\u00a0Gomez\u00a0finished off\u00a0a pass from Iv\u00e1n Angulo, who in tonight’s match secured his 150th\u00a0appearance for the club across all competitions, to lock in all three points. <\/p>\n
Orlando City will next hit the road to take on D.C. United on Saturday, April 25, at Audi Field\u00a0for\u00a0the first of four consecutive road matches. Kickoff on Apple TV is set for 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
\n Interim Head Coach Mart\u00edn Perelman:<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the team\u00a0is in\u00a0process.\u00a0We\u2019ve\u00a0been talking about it all week. The important thing is\u00a0the performance.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0hard to say that when you lose like two days ago and easier to say it when you win, but for me, the message is the same: We are working, the team is growing, the players are\u00a0giving\u00a0an amazing\u00a0effort\u00a0and we\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0win the league today and we\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0lose it two days ago. This is a long season. What matters is where we stand at the end. That is our mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (April\u00a022, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City SC (2-6-1,\u00a07\u00a0points)\u00a0defeated\u00a0Charlotte FC\u00a0(4-3-2, 14 points)\u00a04-1\u00a0behind a Mart\u00edn Ojeda brace\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0night at\u00a0Inter&Co\u00a0Stadium. The Lions\u00a0opened\u00a0the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[86790,7701,4791,32014,76792,105558,32007,8983,7706,45367,7700,4792,4789,4787,115,139,4786,4788,141,140,106527,9651,77458,7702,9648,32015],"class_list":{"0":"post-242855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-bernardo-santos-rhein-goncalves","9":"tag-david-brekalo","10":"tag-duncan-mcguire","11":"tag-eduard-atuesta","12":"tag-griffin-dorsey","13":"tag-ignacio-gomez","14":"tag-ivan-angulo","15":"tag-joran-gerbet","16":"tag-justin-ellis","17":"tag-luis-otavio","18":"tag-marco-pasalic","19":"tag-martin-ojeda","20":"tag-match-report","21":"tag-matchday","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-orlando","24":"tag-orlando-city","25":"tag-orlando-city-sc","26":"tag-orlando-headlines","27":"tag-orlando-news","28":"tag-orlvsclt-04-22-2026","29":"tag-robin-jansson","30":"tag-tiago","31":"tag-tyrese-spicer","32":"tag-wilder-cartagena","33":"tag-zakaria-taifi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242855","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=242855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}