{"id":372798,"date":"2026-08-16T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372798\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:04:07","slug":"match-report-orlando-city-sc-rallies-to-1-1-draw-against-fc-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372798\/","title":{"rendered":"Match report: Orlando City SC rallies to 1-1 draw against FC Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 15, 2026)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Orlando City SC (6-10-3, 21 points)\u00a0played to a 1-1 draw against FC Cincinnati (7-6-6, 27 points) at Inter.co Stadium on Saturday night, debuting the\u00a0Orlando Original<\/a>\u00a0kit. <\/p>\n

The Lions controlled the opening minutes and created most of the early attacking chances before Pavel Bucha put the visitors ahead in the 23rd minute. Evander\u2019s shot inside the Orlando box deflected off a defender and fell to Bucha outside the area, where he took a touch and sent a shot past goalkeeper Maxime Cr\u00e9peau for the opener. <\/p>\n

Orlando equalized three minutes after halftime through Tyrese Spicer. The play began on the left side of the Lions\u2019 defensive half, where Iv\u00e1n Angulo sped past two Cincinnati defenders along the touchline and played a ball inside to Justin Ellis. <\/p>\n

Ellis first-timed a pass into space for Spicer, who fought through contact to reach the ball first before dribbling past goalkeeper Roman Celentano and chipping a shot under the crossbar to beat the recovering Cincinnati defender. <\/p>\n

The Lions created multiple chances to take all three points, finishing the match with 2.1 xG to Cincinnati’s 1.2 xG. Entering the match, no other team had scored more than goals in league play than Cincinnati, with the result marking just the second time in their last 12 games that the Orange & Blue were held to a goal or less. <\/p>\n

Orlando City will next host Robert Lewandowski\u2019s Chicago Fire FC on Wednesday, Aug. 19, at Inter.co Stadium in MLS action (7:30 p.m. ET, Apple TV).<\/p>\n

\n Interim Head Coach Mart\u00edn Perelman:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it was a very tough team, tough game. As we expected against Cincinnati, it\u2019s always like this. They have a very strong offense. I think it\u2019s one of the best teams in the league attacking, so we knew who we were facing as well. We know that we are very strong at home. I think we created chances. At moments, the game was very open. They had chances as well. We always want to win at home. But again, taking into account the opponent, the game and everything, I think the effort of the players was there. We need to take the point and move forward because this league is long and we are still there. The standings, we look at the end. Tough night, but okay, we move forward for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (Aug. 15, 2026)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Orlando City SC (6-10-3, 21 points)\u00a0played to a 1-1 draw against FC Cincinnati (7-6-6,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[53866,32014,32007,7706,4792,4789,4787,115,78411,139,4786,4788,141,140,149921,7702],"class_list":["post-372798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-braian-ojeda","tag-eduard-atuesta","tag-ivan-angulo","tag-justin-ellis","tag-martin-ojeda","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-orlvscin-08-15-2026","tag-tyrese-spicer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372798","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=372798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}