Welcome to your match thread for a U.S. Open Cup semifinal version of the Southeast Showdown (*must credit The Mane Land PawedCast) as Orlando City hosts Atlanta United.
It can’t be called a rivalry until Orlando City gets on the board in this series, and this is the first time the teams have met with anything of more value than a regular-season game at stake.
Orlando City is 0-5-2 in the all-time series and 0-3-0 at home, which is objectively a terrible record against any opponent. But it’s likely we’ll forget the previous seven matches even took place if the Lions can finally taste victory against the flesh-eating monsters from Terminus.