Orlando Metropolis head coach Oscar Pareja is hopeful his facet can proceed their play-off journey forward of dealing with New England Revolution this weekend.
The Lions recorded consecutive victories with an emphatic show towards D.C. United final day out as they placed on a five-star displaying on the Inter&Co Stadium.
Their newest outcome leaves them in seventh place within the Japanese Convention, 5 factors behind Charlotte FC.
Pareja insists his facet should proceed to enhance as they purpose to climb the league desk, believing his gamers have discovered confidence and a connection at an necessary stage of the season.
“First we are going to attempt to hold after which enhance the extent, like at all times,” Pareja mentioned. “The outcomes clearly simply give us extra confidence to proceed profitable video games and including necessary factors.
“I believe the performance of the group is significantly better and the cohesiveness that we’ve discovered within the final two video games has given us optimism.
“We’ll hold working. The journey remains to be in entrance of us, and we’ve to maintain enhancing and see if we will keep this degree of not simply enjoying nicely however having that confidence in entrance of objective.”
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— Orlando Metropolis SC (@OrlandoCitySC) July 11, 2024
New England, in the meantime, enter the competition off the again of a 2-0 defeat to Seattle Sounders, their first defeat on the street in two video games having recorded spectacular victories over CF Cincinnati and Nashville SC.
The Revs stay amongst a cluster of groups separated by simply 4 factors on the backside finish of the Japanese Convention desk, presently sitting twelfth within the division.
Nevertheless, Caleb Porter’s facet have impressed at house in latest weeks, and the New England head coach harassed the significance of claiming successes of their subsequent two video games on the Gillette Stadium forward of the Leagues Cup break.
“It’s actually necessary. You need to care for enterprise at house, and we didn’t do this earlier within the yr however we’ve been in a position to do this a bit extra just lately,” Porter mentioned.
“The fellows have gained confidence at house, and this will probably be one other powerful sport.
“We’ve got three video games now till a form of break. That is our twenty first sport so it’s going to occur quick, however we wish to get as many factors as doable earlier than the break and that units up form of a stretch run.
“We could have solely 11 video games to go so the following two house video games earlier than this break, we have to push actually onerous to care for enterprise.
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— New England Revolution (@NERevolution) July 11, 2024
PLAYERS TO WATCH
New England Revolution – Carles Gil
Some gamers discover a facet that they simply can not cease scoring towards, and Carles Gil has proved to be Orlando Metropolis’s kryptonite in earlier conferences.
Gil has recorded 11 objective contributions towards the Lions (5 objectives, six assists). Solely Sebastian Giovinco (15) has achieved greater than the Spaniard.
Orlando Metropolis – Facundo Torres
Facundo Torres is already a agency fan favorite for his dynamic attacking shows, and his statistics have him amongst a number of the greatest gamers to play for Orlando.
Since arriving on the membership in 2022, Torres has notched 47 regular-season objective contributions, rating him fourth for essentially the most in membership historical past. He’s two behind Cyle Larin and Mauricio Pereyra (49 every) for joint-second within the Lions’ MLS historical past.
MATCH PREDICTION: NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION WIN
New England will probably be hopeful of sustaining their spectacular latest kind on the Gillette Stadium, having received three of their final 4 house matches (L1). Previous to this run, they’d recorded only one victory of their earlier seven video games in entrance of their very own supporters (D1, L5).
The Revs additionally maintain a formidable report over their opponents on house turf and have by no means misplaced to Orlando on the Gillette Stadium (W6 D2). New England have additionally outscored their opponents 21-6 over their eight conferences in Foxborough.
Nevertheless, the Lions will probably be assured of ending their shedding streak away to New England. Their 5-0 win over D.C. United equalled the biggest margin of victory within the membership’s historical past. It was their third five-goal triumph, with the primary of these coming towards the Revs in a 6-1 win again in 2017.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
New England Revolution – 40.7%
Draw – 26.7%
Orlando Metropolis – 32.7%
