He City of Orlando and the Inter Miamiwithout the Argentine Lionel Messitied this Sunday with a goal in a clash where the visitors came without their big stars, and had goalkeeper Drake Callender as life insurance between the sticks to keep the dream of playing in the postseason alive.
Orlando City had many chances to win but they were disappointed by the rival goalkeeper and the personality shown by Inter Miami’s young players such as the Honduran David Ruiz, goal scorer, or Cremaschi and the Ecuadorian Leo Campana.
Inter Miami arrived in Orlando without any big summer signings. Leo Messi, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba all stayed at home with the aim of getting in the best condition for the US Open Cup grand final against Houston Dynamo on September 27. Other regular starters such as Argentine Facundo Farías or the Canadian Kamal Miller, who waited his turn from the bench, was also out of the game.
Orlando City maintained their unbeaten streak at home against Inter Miami and extended their unbeaten streak at home to the last ten games. The first minutes had a clear dominator, Orlando City, with multiple arrivals and high pressure that made it difficult for Inter Miami to get the ball out. Despite this situation, ‘Tata’ Martino’s men gradually calmed down the intensity suggested by the locals.
Orlando piled on the pressure for a few minutes and that’s when they had their clearest chance inside the area with Colombian Iván Angulo and Duncan McGuire going close to goal. In the first 25 minutes of the match, Miami barely got into Pedro Gallese’s area and the first dangerous chance was scored shortly after by Campana with a shot from the edge of the area that was cleared by the Peruvian goalkeeper .
It was a heated match, true to the growing rivalry between the two clubs, and referee Armando Villarreal had to make important decisions when it came to whether or not to show yellow cards for tactical fouls. It was one of the points where they disagreed from the local bench with Colombian coach Óscar Pareja, in charge.
In the 28th minute McGuire faced Callender after a marking error by the pink defense. The visiting goalkeeper’s response was excellent, stepped up and cleared what could have been the first goal, which the locals deserved. When Robert Taylor took a corner in the 42nd minute, Campana was again the most dangerous with a header that struck the ball on goal and forced a superb reflex reaction from the Gallese. The great success of Inter Miami survived local dominance and went to the locker room without taking a goal.
Orlando started with the same plan in the second half, and Facundo Torres tried Callender to no avail. But sometimes Inter Miami’s survival character prevailed, taking another step.
A wonderful deep pass from Campana inside the area came from Venezuelan Josef Martínez, who tried to beat the Gallese with a cross shot, but the Peruvian’s response let the ball loose in the small place and, at will, David Ruiz scored the first goal of the night in the 53rd minute.
Local despair: reign without effect
Because of this, Orlando looked more aggressively for the goal, but always found the same response from the visitors, an incomparable Callender. Angulo, Torres and the rest of the local attackers fell into despair as they found themselves unable to produce a good team game.
The ball and the chances belonged to those in purple, and in some great collective play they left McGuire at second against Callender, who this time hit him all over, low, under the posts. goalkeeper’s leg and against Miller’s opposition. It was celebrated like a title at the Exploria Stadium, because after 67 minutes of testing, they felt they had been served justice.
With the goal tied the field got bigger, both teams ran up and down. The intention to score is evident from both teams and either of them can get the three points. The final distribution of points does justice to what was seen in the last phase of the match. Even the entry of the Argentines Ramiro Enrique and Facundo Farías for each of the two paintings could not influence the change of lighting.
DATA SHEET
1 – Orlando City: Welsh; Thorhallsson (Halliday, d.77), Schlegel, Jansson, Santos; Araujo (Ojeda, m.46), Cartagena; Torres, Pereyra (Urso, m.84), Angulo (Enrique, m.73); McGuire (González, m.84)
1 – Inter Miami: Callender; Yedlin, Avilés (Sailor, m.46), Kryvtsov (Miller, m.46), Allen; Taylor (Robinson, m.80), Arroyo, Cremaschi (Ulloa, m.93), Ruiz; Campana and Martínez (Farías, m.71)
Goals: 1-0, David Ruiz (m. 52); 1-1, Duncan McGuire (m. 66)
Referee: Armando Villarreal (United States). He showed yellow cards to Schlegel (m.60) and Jansson (m.91) for the locals and to Avilés (m.23), Cremaschi (m.31), David Ruiz (m.54), Yedlin ( m.55). ) and Arroyo (m.78) of the visitors
Incidents: The MLS Regular League match was played at Exploria Stadium before approximately 23,000 spectators
Source: La Verdad
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