{"id":374460,"date":"2026-08-18T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374460\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:14:09","slug":"orlando-city-takes-on-the-chicago-fire-in-eastern-conference-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374460\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando City takes on the Chicago Fire in Eastern Conference action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Fire<\/a> (10-6-2, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando City SC<\/a> (6-10-3, ninth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

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

LINE: Chicago +118, Orlando City SC +182, Draw +291; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Orlando City hosts the Chicago Fire in conference action.<\/p>\n

Orlando is 4-7-3 against Eastern Conference opponents. Orlando is sixth in the Eastern Conference with 31 goals led by Martin Ojeda<\/a> with 11.<\/p>\n

The Fire are 7-5-2 in Eastern Conference games. The Fire have a 25-4-4 record in games they record a pair of goals.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ojeda has scored 11 goals for Orlando. Tyrese Spicer<\/a> has four goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Philip Zinckernagel<\/a> has five goals and eight assists for the Fire. Hugo Cuypers<\/a> has scored five goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Orlando: 16-6-8, averaging 6.3 goals, 16.5 shots on goal and 13.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 6.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Fire: 21-6-3, averaging 6.6 goals, 16.2 shots on goal and 14.1 corner kicks per game while allowing 4.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n

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

Fire: Sergio Oregel<\/a> (injured), Chris Mueller<\/a> (injured), Mbokazi<\/a> (injured), Andre Franco<\/a> (injured).<\/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":"Chicago Fire (10-6-2, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Orlando City SC (6-10-3, 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":[151058,151059,53866,2063,151056,32014,14197,4792,151057,5692,78411,139,141,140,151054,151055,7702],"class_list":["post-374460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-andre-franco","tag-bernardo-rhein","tag-braian-ojeda","tag-chicago","tag-chris-mueller","tag-eduard-atuesta","tag-hugo-cuypers","tag-martin-ojeda","tag-mbekezeli-mbokazi","tag-mls","tag-nolan-miller","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-philip-zinckernagel","tag-sergio-oregel","tag-tyrese-spicer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374460","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=374460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374460\/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=374460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}