PawedCast Episode 380: Montreal Rewind, OCB in the Playoffs, Nashville Preview, and More

The Lions put together a complete game on Saturday night, soundly defeating visiting CF Montreal to the tune of 3-0 at Exploria Stadium. Orlando City needed that victory, which snapped a modest, two-game winless streak (0-1-1). Facundo Torres, Rafael Santos, and Dagur Dan Thorhallsson were particularly good but the entire team played a solid match. We break down the victory — Pedro Gallese’s ninth shutout of the season — and check back on our score predictions. We also give our selections for Man of the Match and tell you which of our picks made the MLS Team of the Matchday for his performance.

Orlando City B played its first MLS NEXT Pro playoff match and performed well on the road, but still lost 2-1 to Columbus Crew 2. The difference in the game was conceding two penalties. The Crew capitalized on both, despite the fact that Javier Otero saved one of them. In the end, there wasn’t enough offense from OCB and two penalties conceded too many. Those kinds of mistakes are difficult to overcome anywhere, let alone on the road in the postseason. Still, it was a good season for the Young Lions and a much more entertaining one than we were expecting.

Our mailbagbox featured questions about grammar, becoming friends with past and present Lions, Michael Halliday’s future, and more. 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.

Finally, we looked ahead to Wednesday’s matchup against Nashville SC on the road, providing our key matchups and our score predictions for the Lions’ penultimate road match of the 2023 regular season in a week that’s shaping up to be critical in terms of where Orlando City will finish with regard to home field in the postseason.

Here’s how No. 380 went down:

0:15 – A complete victory over CF Montreal at home.

25:36 – OCB bows out of the playoffs quickly, but weird things happened, so you know it was an authentic Orlando City B match.

40:37 — Our mailbagbox has some interesting questions for us and we look ahead to a big match on Wednesday in Nashville.