ORLANDO,\u00a0Fla.\u00a0(July\u00a025,\u00a02026)\u202f\u2013\u00a0Following a 76-minute weather delay,\u00a0Nashville Soccer Club lost just its second of 17 MLS matches this season when it fell\u00a01-0\u00a0at Orlando City SC Saturday night. Despite\u00a0their first regular season\u00a0loss\u00a0in\u00a0more than three months\u00a0at Chicago\u00a0on April 4, the Boys in Gold remain atop the MLS standings at 12W-2L-3D. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Lineup\u00a0rotation:\u00a0Four Nashville SC regulars remained out Saturday\u00a0due to injury in forward Warren Madrigal, midfielders Cristian Espinoza and Patrick Yazbek and defender Reed\u00a0Baker-Whiting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All of\u00a0the stars:\u00a0Prior to Nashville SC\u2019s next match at D.C. United, a league-high four Boys in Gold will take part in the\u00a02026 MLS All-Star Game presented by Chime on Wednesday, July 29\u00a0in Charlotte: Hany Mukhtar, Andy Najar, Brian\u00a0Schwake\u00a0and Sam Surridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Next up:\u00a0Nashville SC will\u00a0visit the Nation\u2019s Capital when it faces D.C. United at Audi Field on Saturday, Aug. 1 at 6:30 p.m. CT.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Notes:\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n
Nashville SC:\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n
is in first place in MLS at 12W-2L-3D and 39 points
\nhas won\u00a0five of its last six MLS matches (5W-1L-0D)
\nis unbeaten in 10 of its last 11 MLS matches at 8W-1L-2D
\nis 15W-4L-6D across all competitions this season
\nis unbeaten in 21 of 25 matches this season across all competitions (MLS, Concacaf Champions Cup)
\nis 4W-2L-2D on the road in MLS this season
\nis 6W-8L-5D all-time vs. Orlando City SC (MLS, Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cristian Espinoza did not dress due to a lower body injury<\/p>\n
Jordan Knight played a career-high 25\u00a0MLS\u00a0minutes in his fourth\u00a0appearance for the Boys in Gold<\/p>\n
Warren Madrigal did not dress due to a lower body injury\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andy Najar\u00a0earned Man of the Match honors\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brian Schwake made\u00a0four\u00a0saves\u00a0<\/p>\n
Patrick Yazbek did not dress due to a lower body injury<\/p>\n
Box score:\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n
Nashville SC (12W-2L-3D)\u00a0at\u00a0Orlando City SC (6W-9L-2D)<\/p>\n
July\u00a025, 2026\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Inter.co\u00a0Stadium\u00a0<\/p>\n
Final score:\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n
ORL: Tyrese Spicer (Justin Ellis,\u00a0Adrian Marin)\u00a072\u2019<\/p>\n
ORL: Tiago Souza (Caution) 20\u2019<\/p>\n
NSH starters:\u00a0Brian Schwake; Josh Bauer, Maxwell Woledzi, Jack Maher, Andy Najar\u00a0(Dan Lovitz 76\u2019); Bryan Acosta\u00a0(Eddi\u00a0Tagseth\u00a065\u2019), Matthew Corcoran\u00a0(Woobens\u00a0Pacius 90\u2019\u00a0+\u00a05),\u00a0Alex Muyl\u00a0(Ahmed Qasem 46\u2019);\u00a0Sam Surridge, Hany Mukhtar (C), Shak Mohammed\u00a0(Jordan Knight 65\u2019)<\/p>\n
Substitutes:\u00a0Xavier Valdez,\u00a0Jeisson Palacios, Charles-Emile Brunet, Thomas Williams<\/p>\n
ORL\u00a0starters:\u00a0Maxime Cr\u00e9peau; Bernardo Rhein\u00a0(Adrian Marin 69\u2019), David Brekalo\u00a0(Iago Teodoro 69\u2019), Robin Jansson (C), Griffin Dorsey; Luis Otavio\u00a0(Wilder Cartagena 85\u2019), Braian Ojeda, Tiago Souza\u00a0(Tyrese Spicer 53\u2019), Ivan Angulo; Antoine Griezmann, Justin Ellis\u00a0(Harvey Sarajian 85\u2019)<\/p>\n
Substitutes:\u00a0Javier Otero, Zakaria Taifi,\u00a0Tahir Reid-Brown, Gustavo Caraballo<\/p>\n
Match officials:\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Ramy\u00a0Touchan\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weather:\u00a085 degrees and clear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO,\u00a0Fla.\u00a0(July\u00a025,\u00a02026)\u202f\u2013\u00a0Following a 76-minute weather delay,\u00a0Nashville Soccer Club lost just its second of 17 MLS matches this season when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21995,139,141,140,143721],"class_list":["post-352923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-match-recaps","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlvsnsh-07-25-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352923","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=352923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}