Orlando City vs Nashville SC - prediction, team news, lineups

Fresh from a morale-boosting 4-0 midweek victory, Orlando City volition look to physique connected that momentum erstwhile league leaders Nashville SC sojourn the Inter&Co Stadium connected Sunday greeting successful matchday 17 of the MLS Eastern Conference.

Nashville get arsenic the signifier squad successful the full league - unbeaten successful their past 5 and pacing the part for the Supporters’ Shield, portion the hosts volition anticipation that past week’s triumph has reignited a run that had been threatening to drift.

Match preview

Orlando City beryllium 10th successful the Eastern Conference with 17 points from 5 wins, 2 draws and 9 defeats crossed 16 matches, and a antiaircraft grounds that has been the defining occupation of their run - 44 goals conceded representing the highest full successful the conference.

Martin Perelman’s broadside had gone 10 consecutive matches conceding earlier past week’s 4-0 triumph implicit San Jose, which had placed unit connected uncovering solutions astatine the back. 

The cleanable expanse against San Jose, the archetypal since April crossed each competitions, was truthful arsenic important arsenic the goals scored, with 4 antithetic scorers getting connected the sheet, including Antoine Griezmann, who marked his debut for the nine with a goal.

Orlando person won 3 of their past 5 matches crossed each competitions, with 1 nonaccomplishment and 1 gully successful that run, and successful the league specifically their past 5 fixtures person produced 2 wins, 2 defeats and a draw.

At location this season, Perelman’s broadside person posted 3 wins, 1 gully and 3 defeats astatine the Inter&Co Stadium, accumulating 10 points from 7 location fixtures with 14 goals scored and 13 conceded. 

Nashville SC, by contrast, person been the standout broadside successful MLS this season, sitting apical of the Eastern Conference and starring the wide league standings arsenic they gait the part successful the contention for the Supporters’ Shield.

BJ Callaghan’s broadside person accumulated 39 points from 12 wins, 3 draws and conscionable 1 decision - a grounds that leaves them 5 points wide of second-placed Inter Miami and importantly up of Western Conference leaders Vancouver, who apical that array with 32 points.

The visitors person scored 33 goals this play - the third-best instrumentality successful the league, portion their antiaircraft grounds of conscionable 11 goals conceded is the champion successful MLS, and that operation of attacking output and antiaircraft solidity is what makes Nashville truthful hard to play against astatine this signifier of the season.

Callaghan’s men get successful Orlando connected the backmost of a 1-0 triumph implicit Montreal, wherever Sam Surridge’s 68th-minute punishment proved to beryllium the difference, and they person conceded conscionable 3 goals crossed their past 5 league victories.

The astir caller gathering betwixt the 2 clubs ended successful a resounding 5-0 triumph for Nashville, and crossed the past 5 encounters betwixt the sides, the league leaders person won 3 times to Orlando’s 2 - a head-to-head grounds that further underlines the standard of the task facing Perelman’s broadside connected Sunday.

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Team News

Orlando caput into Sunday’s lucifer with respective absentees. Newly signed defender Clovis Archange is unavailable owed to planetary work with Canada, portion Colin Guske is besides distant connected planetary commitments.

Joran Gerbet remains sidelined with a genu injury, portion Nolan Miller is besides retired with a genu complaint. 

Martin Ojeda is unavailable with a thigh injury, further limiting Perelman’s options up of a hard location fixture.

Griezmann is expected to clasp his spot successful the starting lineup having scored connected his debut against San Jose, with the forward’s accomplishment giving Orlando a genuine attacking menace that their run had lacked successful the earlier weeks of the season.

For Nashville, Chris Applewhite is distant connected planetary duty, portion Cristian Espinoza is sidelined with a limb wounded and Warren Madrigal is unavailable with a knock.

Reed Baker-Whiting misses retired with a musculus injury, portion Patrick Yazbek is besides absent with a little assemblage complaint.

Orlando City imaginable starting lineup:

Crepeau; Dorsey, Brekalo, Jansson, Marin; Angulo, Atuesta, Ojeda, Tiago; Griezmann, Ellis

Nashville SC imaginable starting lineup:

Schwake; Lovitz, Palacios, Woledzi, Bauer; Muyl, Corcoran, Tagseth; Mukhtar, Surridge, Mohammed

We say: Orlando City 1-2 Nashville SC

Nashville’s antiaircraft grounds makes them an highly hard broadside to people against, and Orlando’s inability to support cleanable sheets crossed astir of the play suggests this volition beryllium nary straightforward day for Perelman’s broadside contempt past week’s encouraging result.

The visitors' unbeaten tally and their superiority crossed the transportation makes a constrictive distant triumph the astir apt result connected Sunday morning.

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