Here are five storylines to watch for Saturday’s matchup at Philadelphia Union:<\/p>\n
\n One Away<\/p>\n
Mart\u00edn Ojeda continued his strong season last time out, scoring his team-leading 12th MLS goal of the year and 46th all-time across all competitions for Orlando City. The Argentine now sits one goal shy of matching Facundo Torres\u2019 club record of 47 goals across all competitions. Ojeda has contributed to three goals in his last four matches across all competitions, with two goals and one assist.<\/p>\n
\n Stars and Stripes<\/p>\n
Forward Justin Ellis earned his first career call-up to the United States Men\u2019s National Team this week, becoming the latest Homegrown Player to receive a senior national team selection. The 19-year-old entered Saturday\u2019s match having recorded assists in five consecutive matches across all competitions before his streak came to an end last weekend. Ellis remained involved in Orlando\u2019s attack, helping build the play that led to Iv\u00e1n Angulo\u2019s opening goal.<\/p>\n
\n Angulo\u2019s Hot Streak<\/p>\n
Iv\u00e1n Angulo enters Saturday\u2019s contest in the best scoring form of his MLS career. The Colombian found the back of the net for a third consecutive league match last weekend, bringing his season total to four goals and his Orlando City tally to 16 across all competitions.<\/p>\n
\n Lions Go Global<\/p>\n
Several Orlando City players will depart for international duty following Saturday\u2019s match in Philadelphia. Justin Ellis received his first senior call-up from the United States Men\u2019s National Team, while defender David Brekalo will join Slovenia, midfielder Wilder Cartagena will represent Peru, winger Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107 was selected by Croatia and forward Tyrese Spicer will report to Trinidad & Tobago. Ellis and Cartagena could also face off during the international window, with the United States and Peru scheduled to meet in an international friendly in downtown Orlando on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n
\n Last Meeting Thriller<\/p>\n
Orlando City and Philadelphia Union produced one of the season\u2019s most entertaining matches when the sides met on May 13 at Inter&Co Stadium. The Lions earned a 4-3 victory behind a four-goal first half, holding off a late Union rally to secure all three points. The win snapped Philadelphia\u2019s unbeaten run against Orlando and marked the Lions\u2019 highest-scoring performance against the Union since 2021.<\/p>\n
\n Milestone Tracker<\/p>\n
–\u00a0Mart\u00edn Ojeda needs one goal to tie Facundo Torres\u2019 club record of 47 across all competitions. Ojeda is also three assists from matching Mauricio Pereyra\u2019s club record of 47.<\/p>\n
– Daryl Dike is one goal away from tying former Lion Chris Mueller (22) for ninth on the Club\u2019s all-time scoring charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are five storylines to watch for Saturday’s matchup at Philadelphia Union: One Away Mart\u00edn Ojeda continued his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47194,117174,32007,7706,4792,115,139,4786,4788,141,140,162523,9017],"class_list":["post-411311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-antoine-griezmann","tag-daryl-dike","tag-ivan-angulo","tag-justin-ellis","tag-martin-ojeda","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-phivsorl-09-26-2026","tag-what-to-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411311","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=411311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}