Orlando City and Chicago Fire FC\u00a0 faced off on a stormy Wednesday night, with Antoine Griezmann and Robert Lewandowski both playing key roles in a 2-1 victory for the visitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf\u00a0course,\u00a0disappointed with the result. Very, very disappointed because we were playing at home, and we want to win,\u201d Orlando interim head coach Mart\u00edn Perelman said. \u201cI think it was a game\u00a0that\u00a0we could have had a different result. It\u2019s\u00a0over,\u00a0nothing to do. We played against a good team. We couldn\u2019t\u00a0score\u00a0the chances we created; they were effective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chicago (11-6-2, 35 points) scored its opening goal in the 4th minute thanks to Puso Dithejane. Orlando (6-11-3, 21) failed to clear the ball after Lewandowski headed it across the box. That allowed Dithejane to smash the ball past Maxime Cr\u00e9peau on Chicago\u2019s first shot of the game, giving the team a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The whistle\u00a0was blown\u00a0for a lightning delay with only two minutes left in the second half. The delay lasted just under two hours before the teams\u00a0came back\u00a0and finished the first half. Halftime was replaced with a short water break before the second half resumed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe used the time to review the game, to make the adjustments\u00a0that we needed. Some subs as well,\u201d\u00a0Perelman added. \u201cI think they worked. I think we went out in a much better way. We were able to tie the game, and then we\u00a0push.\u00a0I think the\u00a0effort of the players was there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orlando tied it up at 1-1 in the 52nd minute off a set piece. Griezmann\u2019s corner kick was delivered perfectly for David Brekalo to head home. The Lions had 16 shots, five on target, but\u00a0were unable to\u00a0get past goalkeeper Chris Brady a second time.<\/p>\n
Lewandowski earned a penalty in the 65th minute after Robin Jansson took him down from behind in the box. Jansson\u00a0was shown\u00a0a yellow card, and Lewandowski slotted his shot to the left of Cr\u00e9peau to make it 2-1 in the 69th minute.<\/p>\n
Orlando has a quick turnaround, welcoming Real Salt Lake to town on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando City and Chicago Fire FC\u00a0 faced off on a stormy Wednesday night, with Antoine Griezmann and Robert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140,108],"class_list":["post-376281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376281","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=376281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}