{"id":795068,"date":"2026-05-14T04:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795068\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:55:13","slug":"match-report-orlando-city-sc-defeats-philadelphia-union-4-3-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795068\/","title":{"rendered":"Match report: Orlando City SC\u00a0defeats\u00a0Philadelphia Union\u00a04-3\u00a0at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ORLANDO (May 13, 2026) \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Mart\u00edn Ojeda scored his second brace of the season to lead\u00a0<strong>Orlando City SC (4-8-1, 13 points)<\/strong>\u00a0to a 4-3 victory over\u00a0the\u00a0visiting\u00a0Philadelphia Union (1-9-3, 6 points) on Wednesday night at\u00a0Inter&amp;Co\u00a0Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ojeda opened the scoring\u00a0from a penalty kick\u00a0in the 19th minute after drawing a\u00a0foul from\u00a0Union goalkeeper Andrew Rick\u00a0in a 1-on-1.\u00a0Less than 10 minutes later,\u00a0Griffin Dorsey scored his first MLS goal for the\u00a0Club, finishing off a sequence\u00a0involving\u00a0Ojeda and Tiago to\u00a0make it 2-0\u00a0in the 27th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions limited Philadelphia to two shots on target in the first half before Milan Iloski pulled one back for the visitors\u00a0nine minutes into the second half.\u00a0Orlando\u00a0regained its two-goal lead\u00a0in the 72nd minute when Duncan McGuire\u00a0finished off an individual effort from\u00a0Tyrese Spicer, who muscled his way\u00a0through the midfield\u00a0on a breakaway\u00a0before\u00a0squaring a ball\u00a0across goal for McGuire to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia responded almost\u00a0immediately\u00a0via\u00a0Cavan Sullivan, who\u00a0scored in the 75th\u00a0minute,\u00a0and Ben Bender followed four minutes later to level the match at 3-3\u00a0with 11 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>As the clock struck\u00a0the\u00a090-minute\u00a0mark,\u00a0Ojeda\u00a0found the game-winner\u00a0and\u00a0his second goal of the night, finishing a cross from Adri\u00e1n Mar\u00edn with a diving header to secure all three points for the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando City remains in the City Beautiful on Saturday night when it hosts Eastern Conference rivals Atlanta United FC at Inter&amp;Co Stadium in the second match of a three-game homestand. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ET and the match will air live on Apple TV.<\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>Interim Head Coach Mart\u00edn Perelman:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy with the victory. I think the guys are putting in a lot of effort and we had a really good performance. We made some mistakes that led to what everyone saw. What I learned from this game is to enjoy the victories and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do. There are things we still need to improve, but we understand the process. We see the big picture and little by little we are continuing to grow. This is our fourth home game since we started this process and we really want to win at home, so I\u2019m happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO (May 13, 2026) \u2013\u00a0Mart\u00edn Ojeda scored his second brace of the season to lead\u00a0Orlando City SC (4-8-1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[260950,5229,48414,260954,15761,48403,48412,48411,48404,32154,48399,50,260956,48397,6073,322617,1448,2830,1311,260958,260953,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-795068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-adrian-marin","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-david-brekalo","11":"tag-duncan-mcguire","12":"tag-griffin-dorsey","13":"tag-ivan-angulo","14":"tag-joran-gerbet","15":"tag-marco-pasalic","16":"tag-martin-ojeda","17":"tag-match-report","18":"tag-matchday","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nolan-miller","21":"tag-orlando-city","22":"tag-orlando-city-sc","23":"tag-orlvsphi-05-13-2026","24":"tag-pa","25":"tag-pennsylvania","26":"tag-philadelphia","27":"tag-tiago","28":"tag-tyrese-spicer","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-of-america","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116571152670016472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}