PAWTUCKET, R.I. (April 29, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City SC advanced to the Quarterfinals of the 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup after a dramatic 4-3 victory over the\u00a0New England Revolution at Centreville Bank Stadium on Wednesday night. The Lions erased three deficits\u00a0before a stoppage-time goal from Zakaria Taifi sealed their place in the next round of the historic tournament.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The match unfolded as a back-and-forth affair between the two sides from the outset, with\u00a0the Revs twice taking the lead in the first half and Orlando City responding quickly on each occasion. New England struck first in the 21st minute when Malcolm Fry was played into the box and held off his defender to finish at the near post. Orlando responded 10 minutes later, as\u00a0Iago rose high to head home a Tiago free kick for his first goal in purple. <\/p>\n
New England reclaimed their lead in the 37th minute through a\u00a0set piece of their own. Gabe Dahlin recovered a loose ball in the six-yard box and laid it off to Andrew Farrell, who hammered\u00a0a low effort into the net to make it 2-1. The lead lasted two minutes before Ivan Angulo floated a ball out wide to Griffin Dorsey, who\u00a0played a one-two with Justin Ellis to slip through on goal and volley home Orlando\u2019s second equalizer of the night.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The tit-for-tat continued after the break, with the home side taking a third lead\u00a0in the 58th minute via Marcos Zambrano\u2019s effort from outside the box. Ellis then netted his second goal in as many games, slotting home a rebound off Tyrese Spicer\u2019s cross to level the score in the 70th minute. The Lions\u00a0then found the game-winner in stoppage time after Mart\u00edn Ojeda played a ball over the back line to Spicer, who crossed a low, driven ball\u00a0into the box for Zakaria Taifi to tap in and send his side to its\u00a0first U.S. Open Cup Quarterfinal appearance since 2022.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Orlando City will continue its four-game road stint on Saturday night as they head south to take on intrastate rivals Inter Miami CF at Nu Stadium. The match will air live on Apple TV and FS1, with kickoff set for 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
\n Scoring Summary:<\/p>\n
21\u2019 Malcolm Fry (Eric Klein) \u2013 NE 1, ORL 0 \n Interim Head Coach Mart\u00edn Perelman:<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of happiness because of the result, especially [because of], like I said last week, the effort of the players. I think the effort of the players a couple of days ago, today, every game, I think that\u2019s the biggest point to highlight. I think we have an amazing group of players and when they need to show up, they do it, even during our transitional process. They do it, they get the result. The [U.S. Open] Cup is not easy. I respect the Open Cup and I respect the opponent, so happy happy for the result.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PAWTUCKET, R.I. (April 29, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Orlando City SC advanced to the Quarterfinals of the 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7705,7701,4791,32014,76792,77459,105558,7704,8983,7706,7700,4789,4787,115,78411,139,4786,4788,141,140,77458,7702,32015],"class_list":["post-252049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-colin-guske","tag-david-brekalo","tag-duncan-mcguire","tag-eduard-atuesta","tag-griffin-dorsey","tag-iago-teodoro","tag-ignacio-gomez","tag-javier-otero","tag-joran-gerbet","tag-justin-ellis","tag-marco-pasalic","tag-match-report","tag-matchday","tag-news","tag-nolan-miller","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-tiago","tag-tyrese-spicer","tag-zakaria-taifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252049","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=252049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
31\u2019 Iago (Tiago) \u2013 ORL 1, NE 1<\/a>\u00a0
37\u2019 Andrew Farrell (Gabe Dahlin) \u2013 NE 2, ORL 1\u00a0
39\u2019 Griffin Dorsey (Justin Ellis) \u2013 ORL 2, NE 2<\/a>\u00a0
58\u2019 Marcos Zambrano-Delgado (Eric Klein) \u2013 NE 3, ORL 2\u00a0
70\u2019 Justin Ellis \u2013 ORL 3, NE 3<\/a>\u00a0
90+2\u2019 Zakaria\u00a0Taifi\u00a0(Tyrese Spicer)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0ORL 4, NE 3<\/a><\/p>\n