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PawedCast Episode 557: NYCFC Rewind, Chicago and Charlotte Previews, and More
The Lions puked up two points at the death like a cat with a hairball and now comes a difficult road swing.
Orlando City looked to finally erase a long winless drought against New York City FC in what was all but a must-win game for playoff positioning when considering the remaining opponents on the schedule. But the Pigeons used every second of a seemingly overestimation of added time to steal a point at the death, spoiling things for the Lions’ faithful. It was far from Orlando’s best performance, but it still seemed as if the team had done enough to get the win, only to suffer a draw that felt more like a loss.
We look back at an uncharacteristic home performance, look back at our score predictions, and make our selections for Man of the Match.
Our mailbagbox asks about Antoine Griezmann, Lions as holiday side dishes, 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, or hitting us up on Bluesky Social with that same hashtag.
After the mailbagbox, we looked ahead to Orlando City’s final two regular-season road matches — both against teams in the top four of the Eastern Conference. We look at the series history against both the Chicago Fire and Charlotte FC, check out how each team has performed to this point in the season, provide our key matchups for the two games, and attempt to predict the scores of those matches. It could be a difficult week based on Orlando City’s road form all season.
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Here’s how No. 557 went down:
0:15 – The Lions were seconds away from victory and, like so many times previously, couldn’t hold on.
28:55 – The mailbagbox disses Halloween and dives straight into Thanksgiving while the calendar still says ‘October.’ SMH.
42:00 – A difficult two-game trek to Chicago and Charlotte without coming home in between could be the difference between finishing above or below the playoff line.