ATLANTA (Sept. 9, 2026) \u2014\u00a0Antoine Griezmann scored his second brace of the season as\u00a0Orlando City SC (9-11-4, 31 points)\u00a0defeated rivals Atlanta United FC (6-14-4, 22 points) by a\u00a03-2 scoreline on Wednesday night at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The result lifts the Lions to sixth in the Eastern Conference standings with ten games left in the regular season.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Atlanta opened the scoring in the seventh minute after playing a short corner kick to Alexey Miranchuk, who crossed the ball into the box to Paulo D\u00edaz. The Chilean headed the ball to Breel Embolo, whose attempt on goal deflected off defender David Brekalo and into the net.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The Lions kept their composure and struck back in the 26th minute when Griffin Dorsey played midfielder Joran Gerbet down the right wing and into the Atlanta United box. Gerbet sent a low cross toward the near post where Griezmann was able to beat his defender and send the ball past goalkeeper Lucas Hoyos to equalize. <\/p>\n
Orlando then took the lead in the 58th minute after captain Robin Jansson sent a lofted through ball\u00a0for Mart\u00edn Ojeda, who collected the ball before finding a wide-open Iv\u00e1n Angulo who slotted it in to take the lead.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Griezmann doubled his tally in the 77th minute when he picked up a turnover in the final third. The Frenchman sprinted toward the goal before playing a one-two with Justin Ellis to put himself one-on-one with the keeper and tuck home the Lions\u2019 third goal of the night.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The Five Stripes attempted a late rally and pulled one back in the seventh minute of stoppage time via an own goal that deflected from a headed ball following a set piece, but the Lions closed out the game to come away with all three points.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Orlando City next returns home to Inter.co Stadium this Saturday, Sept. 12, to host Toronto FC (7:30 p.m. ET | Apple TV) before traveling to Ohio for its Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semifinal against the Columbus Crew on Sept. 16.<\/p>\n
\n Scoring Summary:<\/p>\n
7\u2019 David Brekalo (Own Goal) \u2013 ATL 1, ORL 0<\/a>\u00a0 \n Interim Head Coach Mart\u00edn Perelman:<\/p>\n “I think, again, we\u2019re in a process. We go into the last part of the season\u2014the most stressful, beautiful and important moment of the season\u2014and we\u2019re ready to go. We will fight with our weapons and our organization, the talent of our players and the effort. I think it\u2019s about this, game by game, trying to solve every game because every game we need to win.\u201d<\/p>\n \n Midfielder Joran Gerbet:<\/p>\n \u201cWe needed those three points, so pretty big win for the boys. I think we deserve it. Throughout the game, we played a good game. We controlled most of the ball except for the first 10 minutes and last 10 minutes, where we didn\u2019t control the game, but I felt for the most part, we did control the game. So, a huge win for us on the road, especially a derby against Atlanta, so that\u2019s what we needed moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (Sept. 9, 2026) \u2014\u00a0Antoine Griezmann scored his second brace of the season as\u00a0Orlando City SC (9-11-4, 31…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14175,47194,157312,53866,7701,76792,32007,8983,7706,4792,4789,4787,115,139,4786,4788,141,140,9651,7702],"class_list":["post-395523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-adrian-marin","tag-antoine-griezmann","tag-atlvsorl-09-09-2026","tag-braian-ojeda","tag-david-brekalo","tag-griffin-dorsey","tag-ivan-angulo","tag-joran-gerbet","tag-justin-ellis","tag-martin-ojeda","tag-match-report","tag-matchday","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-robin-jansson","tag-tyrese-spicer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395523","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=395523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
26\u2019 Antoine Griezmann (Joran Gerbet, Griffin Dorsey) \u2013 ORL 1, ATL 1<\/a>\u00a0
58\u2019 Iv\u00e1n Angulo (Mart\u00edn Ojeda, Robin Jansson) \u2013 ORL 2, ATL 1<\/a>\u00a0
77\u2019 Antoine Griezmann (Justin Ellis) – ORL 3, ATL 1<\/a>\u00a0
90+7\u2019 Tyrese Spicer (Own Goal) – ORL 3, ATL 2<\/a><\/p>\n