PawedCast Episode 366: Santos Laguna Rewind, Inter Miami Preview, and More

The Lions found a way. Orlando City came back from a first-half deficit, then responded late after Santos Laguna had erased its own one-goal deficit in the second half. There was one likely hero and two less likely ones accounting for Orlando’s goals, and a vital tackle turned Santos Laguna’s potential game-winning transition opportunity into the Lions’ game-winner on the counter instead. We look back at a historic night for Orlando City SC, which beat a Liga MX team for the first time, won its group in Leagues Cup, and advanced to the Round of 32 to face Inter Miami on short rest. Great prize for winning the group, huh?

We also discussed how the Lions’ group shook out after the round robin matches were played and made our selections for Man of the Match.

We then checked our mailbagbox, which featured questions from our listeners about injuries, contracts, and Leagues Cup picks. Remember, 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 the process of playing New York Red Bulls II on the road while we were recording, so we’ll have to save that breakdown for our next show.

Finally, we gave our key matchups and score predictions for Orlando City’s road match in the Tropic Thunder series against Inter Miami on Wednesday.

Here’s how No. 366 went down:

0:15 – A three-goal outburst to oust Liga MX’s Santos Laguna and claim the group.

21:03 – The mailbagbox demands our responses, we touch on what was happening in the OCB match, and we denigrated Inter Miami for a few minutes.

41:22 – Our key matchups and score predictions for the Leagues Cup Round of 32 match Wednesday at Inter Miami.