ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Orlando City entered Wednesday\u2019s game with only six goals in eight games to their name. But the Lions came alive against Charlotte FC, winning 4-1 in the team\u2019s second win on the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s about time,\u201d said interim head coach Mart\u00edn Perelman after the game. \u201cThe more time we have, the better we can do things on and off the field. In this industry, and in life in general, it\u2019s about time. Every time we have one more session and every time we have one more game, we should be developing our team, and it\u2019s only about time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Midfielder Lu\u00eds Ot\u00e1vio opened the scoring for City in the first half, although Charlotte leveled it at 1-1 going into halftime. Midfielder Mart\u00edn Ojeda scored twice in the second half, including a free kick brace in the 61st minute. Midfielder Ignacio G\u00f3mez added one more for the Lions late in the second half.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was one of the best games we\u2019ve played so far,\u201d said Ot\u00e1vio. \u201cIt shows the depth, strength and determination of the team, and we hope to continue building on this moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the first six games this season, Orlando City gave up 23 goals. Since then, the team has allowed only three goals in the last three MLS games. However, the Lions have had a tough time finding the back of the net, until the floodgates seemed to open against Charlotte on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think [Charlotte is] a good team right now and obviously we haven\u2019t been at our best, but we see every game as a new opportunity to get three points,\u201d forward Justin Ellis said. \u201cRight now, we don\u2019t have a lot of time to train, so playing these games is good for us. We\u2019re still improving; we\u2019re still getting to where we want to be and where we\u2019re going to be. I think we\u2019re doing well now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, the Lions will be on the road for the next four games, including a U.S. Open Cup match at New England Revolution (Wednesday, April 29) and a trip to Inter Miami\u2019s new stadium (Sunday, May 2).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working, and the team is growing,\u201d said Perelman. \u201cThe players are giving an amazing effort, and we didn\u2019t win the league today, and we didn\u2019t lose 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
Orlando City will be back at Inter&Co Stadium on Saturday, May 13, against Philadelphia Union.<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 Orlando City entered Wednesday\u2019s game with only six goals in eight games to their name.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5692,139,4788,141,140,2062,110],"class_list":["post-243958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-mls","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243958","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=243958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}