Orlando City still needs to flesh out its roster in a few areas. In my opinion, striker is one of those areas. The Lions only scored 44 goals in 34 regular-season games last year, a number tied for third-fewest in the Eastern Conference. The departures of Tesho Akindele, Alexandre Pato, and Benji Michel mean that Orlando lost seven of those goals, and while that’s far from an astronomical number, the Lions don’t currently have a striker on the roster who has proven he can score goals at the Major League Soccer level other than Ercan Kara.
Now, before you bite my head off and tell me Orlando has Jack Lynn, in addition to two top 10 2023 MLS SuperDraft picks on the roster, I’m well aware of that fact.