{"id":371147,"date":"2026-08-14T07:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371147\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T07:50:12","slug":"orlando-city-hosts-cincinnati-in-eastern-conference-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371147\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City hosts Cincinnati in Eastern Conference play"},"content":{"rendered":"

FC Cincinnati<\/a> (7-6-5, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando City SC<\/a> (6-10-2, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Orlando, Florida; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Orlando City SC +110, FC Cincinnati +185, Draw +310; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Orlando City and Cincinnati square off in Eastern Conference action.<\/p>\n

Orlando is 4-7-2 against Eastern Conference opponents. Orlando ranks eighth in the Eastern Conference with 82 shots on goal, averaging 4.6 per game.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati is 5-5-4 against Eastern Conference teams. Cincinnati is second in the MLS<\/a> with 106 shots on goal, averaging 5.9 per game. Cincinnati is also first in MLS play with 45 goals.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season. Cincinnati won the last meeting 6-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Martin Ojeda<\/a> has scored 11 goals for Orlando. Griffin Dorsey<\/a> has three goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kevin Denkey<\/a> has 11 goals and two assists for Cincinnati. Evander<\/a> has scored 10 goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Orlando: 18-6-6, averaging 7.2 goals, 16.5 shots on goal and 11.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 6.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati: 22-4-4, averaging 9.6 goals, 18.0 shots on goal and 11.1 corner kicks per game while allowing 7.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Orlando: Nolan Miller<\/a> (injured), Martin Ojeda (injured), Braian Ojeda<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

Cincinnati: None listed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Cincinnati (7-6-5, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando City SC (6-10-2, ninth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53866,29643,17158,76792,119635,4792,78411,139,141,140,176],"class_list":["post-371147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-braian-ojeda","tag-evander","tag-fc-cincinnati","tag-griffin-dorsey","tag-kevin-denkey","tag-martin-ojeda","tag-nolan-miller","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-united-soccer-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371147","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=371147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}