PawedCast Episode 440: Cruz Azul Rewind, OCB vs. Crown Legacy, and More

Orlando City is out of the Leagues Cup and must now wait a couple of weeks before resuming the regular season at Sporting Kansas City. The Lions have nothing to hang their heads about after largely outplaying a good Cruz Azul side in a 0-0 home draw Friday. A little bit more lethality in front of goal and Orlando City would have moved on, but instead, the game went to penalties to decide who advanced and for the first time in club history, it was not the Lions after spot kicks.

We break down some of the near misses (and outright misses) and the shootout, look back at our score predictions (hey, it’s perfectly fine if you hate on Dave for breathing a shootout loss into existence), and make our selections for Man of the Match.

This episode’s mailbagbox asks us about Orlando City yellow cards and what the bench will look like when the regular season resumes. 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, or hitting us up on Bluesky Social with that same hashtag.

After the mailbagbox, we looked back at Sunday’s OCB match against Crown Legacy. The Young Lions tried to emulate the first team by playing to a scoreless home draw and then losing the shootout. But this was a regular-season contest against a team the Young Lions are chasing in the playoff race. We did not like the outcome, nor did we enjoy Thomas Williams getting sent off. We especially disliked the penalties OCB failed to score. Hopefully things will be better this weekend when the Young Lions host NYCFC II.

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Here’s how No. 440 went down:

0:15 – Orlando City didn’t lose but nonetheless is done in the 2024 Leagues Cup. We discuss why.

22:28 – The mailbagbox is curious about the Orlando City bench and trivia.

35:10 – OCB fails to get a much-needed home win and time is quickly running out on a playoff run.