{"id":190104,"date":"2026-05-12T12:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190104\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:32:07","slug":"preview-union-face-orlando-city-in-midweek-road-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190104\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview | Union face Orlando City in midweek road matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Union play their second of two consecutive road games on Wednesday, making the trip south to take on Orlando City in the Sunshine State. Coverage begins at 7:30pm, tune in to watch the action on <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/4qIhW1O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n      Scouting the opponent<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Union have three more matches on their schedule before Major League Soccer pauses from play for nearly two months during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and the upcoming midweek meeting with Orlando is a promising opportunities for points in the final stretch ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando City has also had an unfavorable start to 2026, as they await the arrival of French superstar Antoine Griezmann in July, claiming three wins, one draw, and eight losses so far in 2026. The side now led by Mart\u00edn Perelman, who took over for Oscar Pareja after their 0-3 start, sits one spot above the Union at 14th in the East.<\/p>\n<p>Record aside, Argentinian Designated Player Mart\u00edn Ojeda\u2019s been a player to watch for Orlando, scoring seven of their 16 total goals. He\u2019s built some momentum as of late, adding his most recent trio by way of a hat ttrick against intrastate rival Inter Miami on May 6th. On the defending end of the field Orlando City has struggled, allowing the highest number of goals against in the league with 34 through 12 matches.<\/p>\n<p>\n      Philly\u2019s spot in the standings<\/p>\n<p>After Saturday\u2019s 2-1 loss to New England Revolution, Philly is still in the cellar of the conference with just one win and three draws since the start of the year. They\u2019ve also faced multiple consequential injuries to starting players, namely Jesus Bueno, Japhet Sery Larsen, and most recently Frankie Westfield, who was forced to leave Saturday\u2019s match in the first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s good, but not so good,\u201d Carnell said of Westfield\u2019s injury. \u201cAll the X-rays and everything came out negative in terms of anything structurally wrong with his hip, so it&#8217;s a very bad confusion on the hip pointer, and it&#8217;s probably day-to-say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the other pair, Carnell said Sery Larsen likely out for the match, while Bueno is also day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>\n      What\u2019s next<\/p>\n<p>After Wednesday\u2019s upcoming match, Philly will have just one home and one away match until returning to play late July. The Boys in Blue take on Columbus Crew on Saturday, May 16th for a Subaru Park spring finale on Unity Night, then travel to South Beach for their first visit to Inter Miam\u2019s new stadium on Memorial Day Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Union play their second of two consecutive road games on Wednesday, making the trip south to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[55328,139,84502,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-190104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-match-preview","tag-news","tag-orlvsphi-05-13-2026","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}