{"id":249954,"date":"2026-04-28T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249954\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:08:07","slug":"orlando-city-travels-to-face-revolution-in-u-s-open-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/249954\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City travels to face Revolution in U.S. Open Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando City looks to keep its trophy hopes alive and bounce back from a frustrating weekend collapse when the Lions travel to face the New England Revolution in the U.S. Open Cup Round of 16 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions take on the Revolution at Centreville Bank Stadium at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando enters this match on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/04\/26\/late-goals-doom-orlando-city-in-loss-to-dc-united\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday\u2019s 3-2 loss to D.C. United,<\/a> when the Lions conceded twice in the final seven minutes. The Open Cup presents a welcome shift in focus and a familiar tournament for the club; Orlando won the cup in 2022 and has reached this round in seven of its nine MLS-era campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou win or go home. It\u2019s a different context that changed the game, of course, but we have experience in those kinds of competitions,\u201d Orlando City interim head coach Mart\u00edn Perelman said. \u201cWe\u2019re ready to do it. We like to compete. We are competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perelman is managing a depleted roster as he tries to find consistency. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/04\/23\/orlando-city-finally-get-offense-firing-earn-second-win-of-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-1 win over Charlotte FC last week<\/a>, featuring a Mart\u00edn Ojeda brace, was erased by Saturday\u2019s late unraveling in Washington. The injury list continues to force rotation, with David Brekalo, Duncan McGuire and Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107 all missing recent action.<\/p>\n<p>To counter those injuries, Orlando has relied on its youth to step up. Justin Ellis has a goal and an assist in the past two matches, making him the likeliest candidate to get another start against New England. Other players, such as defender Nolan Miller and backup goalkeeper Javier Otero, could also make the starting eleven as Perelman rotates the roster to keep his squad healthy on a quick turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>The Revolution enter Wednesday unbeaten in their past five matches after a 1-1 draw at Inter Miami on Saturday. Under first-year coach Marko Mitrovi\u0107, New England sits fourth in the Eastern Conference, paced by captain Carles Gil, who has scored in three straight games.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s match will not be played at Gillette Stadium. Instead, New England is hosting at Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I., the home of USL Championship side Rhode Island FC. The Revolution already won one Open Cup match at the venue this spring, securing a penalty shootout victory over Rhode Island FC to advance to this round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very competitive tournament, as well as prestigious. So it\u2019s important to go out from the first moments with everything,\u201d Orlando forward Ivan Angulo said. \u201cJust like every competition we play in, we want to go out there and go after it. We want to win it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Wednesday\u2019s cup match, Orlando City returns to MLS play with a trip to Miami to take on Inter Miami on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando City looks to keep its trophy hopes alive and bounce back from a frustrating weekend collapse when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249955,"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-249954","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\/249954","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=249954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}