The Lions were riding a successful two-match road trip by taking points at the LA Galaxy and Portland Timbers when they returned home to face LAFC. Despite never having beaten the newer side from Los Angeles, there were plenty of reasons to be optimistic. Orlando City was seemingly in good form and Michael Halliday was the only player on the injury report. But things didn’t go as planned in the 4-2 Orlando City loss.
Orlando played fluid, beautiful soccer despite the visitors trying to “ugly up the game” with fouls to slow down Facundo Torres, Mauricio Pereyra, Alexandre Pato and others.