Location: BBVA Compass Stadium Time: 8:30 PM EST Form: DLLWL Recent Result: VAN 2 - 1 HOU Position: 11th in the West We have a massive game today guys. We all know what today means. Win or our season is essentially over. The Houston Dynamo stand in our way tonight. A team that started the season strong has tailed off over the past couple months and find themselves in the gutter of the Western Conference. Unfortunately, this team is very strong at home, posting an impressive 8

I'm back. It's been a minute since I sat down and wrote something. I've just lost some motivation but I finally made the changes I wanted to and now am ready to put more time into the website. Just as much time as I have been putting into the podcast. I am switching up the website a bit. I changed the layout and design a little bit to make it more user friendly. Gone are the days of me only keeping 12 blog posts at a time. Now everything I type will stay on the website withou

Another day another loss to Atlanta. Not only that, but it's a loss in a game where we were the better team for large portions. Atlanta knows how to play us though and they played their game-plan to perfection. All they had to do was hit us on the counter when we had men up the field and they would find enough space to get a goal or two. They tried to transition with pace all game and in the end that is how we ended up conceding. We almost gave up a second if it weren't for M

Location: Exploria Stadium Time: 8:00 PM EST Form: WWWWW Recent Result: POR 0 - 2 ATL Position: 1st in the East Big game tonight. I'm attending and need to leave in an hour and a half so this is going to be short and simple. Here's your Atlanta match preview. Team News Per MLS Injury Report: ATL: Shea (knee), Vazquez (hip), Remedi (hip), Escobar (leg), Ambrose (hamstring) ORL: Higuita (hamstring), Moutinho (hamstring), Ruan (hamstring) Keys to the Game 1. Get to half 0-0 I d

This is really getting old. That's Chicago, Portland, Philadelphia, Toronto, and now Minnesota where we have given up a goal in the last 15 minutes. It's depressing. Very depressing. I'm sick and tired of us having 3 points in our hands and allowing them to slip through our grasp. If we win even 2 of those games, we have 4 more points and are sitting in 5th, tied with NYRB. Instead, we find ourselves outside the playoffs with Atlanta, San Jose, and LAFC still to come. It's st

Location: Allianz Field Time: 8:00 PM EST Form: DWWLW Recent Result: MIN 1 - 0 COL Position: 2nd in the West A big match looms for the Lions as they face off against former head coach Adrian Heath's 2nd place Loons. Minnesota have had a solid season and will look to build on it with another strong performance at home this weekend. Meanwhile, Orlando City find themselves in a fight for the playoffs, sitting just outside the 7th place position on nothing more than games won. Or

Game Review What a massive 3 points for the boys. It was an ugly game but we have *finally* shown that we can win ugly in the MLS. This statement is not without it's caveats. SKC missed a massive chance through Feilhaber who sent a shot past the post in the latter stages of the game. It truly looked harder to miss the target than to hit it. We definitely rode our luck in that scenario but to be fair, we missed three opportunities that should have ended up in the back of the n

Location: Exploria Stadium Time: 7:30 PM EST Where to Watch: ESPN+, YouTube TV Form: WLLWL Recent Result: SKC 1 - 2 RSL Position: 10th in the West Wednesday couldn't come soon enough. Orlando is back in play at Exploria Stadium against Dom Dwyer's old club Sporting KC in yet another must win game for the Lions. This is definitely a game where we will be licking our chops in order to get 3 points. SKC have been struggling all year and find themselves outside the playoff race f

Another game, another blown lead. Why do I love this team again? I don't know. Let's talk about the game and everything that comes with it. The first half started slowly for us (as usual nowadays). We gave up a decent opportunity early on before the game became a back and forth affair, with neither team getting any clear cut chances. After the opening 15, we began to take full control of the game in terms of possession. After being in the mid 30's for percentage, we rocketed

One of MLS' most famous Instagram pages with over 22,600 followers, is a meme page that I absolutely love. He consistently posts multiple times everyday, with the admin having just over 3300 posts. His posts consist of funny captions or videos that are meant to bring entertainment to his fans. I personally laugh out loud (literally, not just the blowing through the nose thing) at least once a day to one of his posts. He also helps bring attention to the league in the form of

Another extra today guys. This one was voted by my followers on Instagram. Don't worry though, there will be plenty more if you wanted to see the other options before this one. As always, my socials are @oclionsblog on Twitter and Instagram. This week's extra dives into how Chris Mueller became the poster boy for Orlando City. Draft Day On January 19th, 2018 Orlando City selected forward Chris Mueller out of the University of Wisconsin at number 6 in the draft. This pick brou

Welcome to the first OC Lion's Blog extra. An extra is just a post where I go in detail about something significant about our club. This is probably going to be a lengthy read, so strap up and get ready for an in depth look at how James O'Connor (JOC) has made us more competitive since arriving midway through last season. History Let's start at the beginning. On June 28th, 2018 Orlando announced the hiring of former player James O'Connor. He played for the team when we were i

Don't get used to this 3 posts in 1 day thing, I am quite busy with school and work ya know. But relish it while it's here. This is the 2nd of the 3 posts, and I will be discussing the picture going around the internet today of our player's salaries for this year. Here's the list down below: I will be going through every player and talking about what they bring to the table and if they deserve to be on that salary or not. To clarify, I will be using the right side of the list

Hello. My name is Gavin Rushnell, and welcome to the OC Lion's Blog website. I have a whole host of things in store for you including up to date news, a podcast, and my very own blog (which you are reading now). But first, a little about me. I love soccer. I've played it ever since I was 4. I also love Arsenal and have intensely watched almost every minute of every game since the 2010/2011 season. If you're wondering, yes RVP was my favorite player. Yes I was a little hurt th