{"id":353115,"date":"2026-07-26T20:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353115\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:05:11","slug":"what-to-watch-for-as-orlando-city-b-finally-return-home-to-host-huntsville-city-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353115\/","title":{"rendered":"What to watch for as Orlando City B finally return home to host Huntsville City FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      Orlando City B vs Huntsville City FC<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, July 26, 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, Fla<\/p>\n<p>\n      Familiar Foe\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orlando City B holds a 4W-4L-1D all-time record against Huntsville City FC, with the sides splitting their first two meetings of 2026 after Huntsville claimed a 3-1 victory at Osceola Heritage Park in the Lions&#8217; opener March 2. Orlando City B responded with a 2-1 win at Wicks Family Field on June 13 behind goals from 16-year-old Academy players Matthew Belgodere and Jacob Ramirez. Ramirez scored the winner for his first professional goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n      Finding the Back of the Net\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pedro Le\u00e3o\u2019s 29th-minute strike against Chattanooga FC extended Orlando City B\u2019s scoring streak to nine consecutive matches, matching the club\u2019s season high set across its first nine matches of 2026 from March 2 to May 11. The Lions have been held scoreless just once this season, a 1-0 loss to New England Revolution II on May 17. The two nine-match scoring streaks are the Club&#8217;s longest since Orlando City B found the net in 11 straight matches from Aug. 3 to Oct. 20 during the 2024 MLS NEXT Pro campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n      Season of Firsts\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orlando City Academy forward Matthew Belgodere recorded his first professional assist on Pedro Le\u00e3o\u2019s 29th-minute opener against Chattanooga FC, adding another milestone to his debut professional campaign. The 16-year-old scored his first professional goal, the winner in Orlando City B\u2019s 3-2 victory over Carolina Core FC on\u00a0June 7, and\u00a0has totaled three goals and one assist while earning MLS NEXT Pro Rising Star of the\u00a0Matchweek\u00a0honors twice this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n      Success from the Spot\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following a 1-1 draw with Chattanooga FC, Orlando City B secured the extra point with a 4-3 end-of-regulation shootout victory, as Parker Amoo-Mensah, Tahir Reid-Brown, Brady Kendall and Caleb Trombino converted their penalty attempts. The result marked the Club&#8217;s third end-of-regulation shootout in its last four matches and seventh of the 2026 season, with the Lions earning the extra point in four of their seven tiebreakers this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando City B vs Huntsville City FC Sunday, July 26, 7:00 p.m. Osceola Heritage Park, Kissimmee, Fla Familiar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,139,18312,141,140,144341,9017],"class_list":["post-353115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city-b","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlvshnt-07-26-2026","tag-what-to-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353115","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=353115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}