{"id":391929,"date":"2026-09-06T05:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391929\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T05:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:32:22","slug":"antoine-griezmanns-scoring-form-lifts-orlando-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391929\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Griezmann&#8217;s scoring form lifts Orlando City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a trend Lions fans will love to continue cheering on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2026\/matches\/orlvssd-09-05-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-0 win<\/a>\u00a0at Inter.co Stadium over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-diego-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego SC<\/a> extended that streak.<\/p>\n<p>Griezmann provided the game-winner to make it five matches unbeaten across all competitions (4W-0L-1D) when the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> winner finds the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Once again linking with homegrown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/justin-ellis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Ellis<\/a> for the 28th-minute decider, a budding strike partnership is growing in prominence, with the 19-year-old assisting in three of Griezmann&#8217;s five goals this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every single time I pass him the ball, I have a feeling like he can do something,&#8221; Ellis said postgame. &#8220;So that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m always looking for him, and it was a nice finish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Grizi, it&#8217;s pretty easy, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their blossoming chemistry comes with some added entertainment for Orlando fans to look forward to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After playing the hits from Griezmann&#8217;s legendary repertoire of celebrations, their next connection may be an original creation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He always asks me this every week,&#8221; said Ellis. &#8220;\u2026 Against San Jose, we did the Hotline Bling. Last game, we did take the L, and then this one was the One Piece.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think those are his three signatures. So, now we have to come up with another one. It&#8217;s fun. It&#8217;s good to have fun with the celebrations as long as we keep on scoring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n      Playoff push<\/p>\n<p>Climbing to eighth place in the Eastern Conference with Saturday&#8217;s win, Orlando City are riding a three-game unbeaten streak and beginning to look like an Audi MLS Cup Playoffs lock.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s far cry from their 12th-place status before Griezmann landed in O-town.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up next, the Lions travel up I-75 for a midweek clash with regional rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/atlanta-united\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta United<\/a> (7:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/atlanta-united-vs-orlando-city\/umc.cse.5mvyv2bqrrqqzcsk30p4pmn4s?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.4000%2Ctvs.sbd.7000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a trend Lions fans will love to continue cheering on.\u00a0 Saturday\u2019s 1-0 win\u00a0at Inter.co Stadium over San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47194,16163,139,4786,141,140,155868,4959],"class_list":["post-391929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-antoine-griezmann","tag-match-reaction","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlvssd-09-05-2026","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391929","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=391929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}