PawedCast Episode 358: Chicago Rewind, OCB-Cincinnati, Toronto Preview, and More

After one normal work week, the Lions are right smack dab in the midst of fixture congestion once again, as Orlando City is set to play on two days rest against Toronto FC before flying out to Utah to face Real Salt Lake on Saturday.

Orlando City is coming off a 3-1 home victory over the Chicago Fire, with Facundo Torres adding two more goals and Ramiro Enrique getting on the scoresheet. We break down a fun match at Exploria Stadium in which the Lions could once again have allowed a late equalizer, but instead chose violence and put the opposition away. We make our selections for Man of the Match and see how we did with regard to our score predictions.

Our mailbag segment was unexpectedly short, but if there’s anything — and we do mean anything — you want us to address on the show, just ask us by tweeting it to us at @TheManeLand with the hashtag #AskTMLPC.

OCB was in action on Sunday evening and it was a crazy game at FC Cincinnati 2, with the Young Lions falling behind twice and coming back from two goals down to win 5-3 in a wild, eight-goal thriller. If that game were a person, they’d need an Uber home because that was one intoxicated match. We try to make sense of it for you.

Finally, we gave our key matchups and score predictions for tonight’s matchup between Orlando City and Toronto FC at Exploria Stadium.

Here’s how No. 358 went down:

0:15 – Orlando City doused the Fire on Saturday and Facu is flying high.

26:08 – A brief mailbagbox and our thoughts on OCB’s road win at Cincy.

52:53 – Key matchups and score predictions for the first meeting with Toronto this season.