Houston Dynamo at Orlando City: Highlights, stats, and quotes
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The Houston Dynamo started their Leagues Cup campaign picking up one point on the road against Orlando City. The teams tied 1-1 after regulation and Orlando won the penalty shootout 5-4 to take an extra point.
MATCH SUMMARY
Orlando City SC 1 (5) - 1 (4) Houston Dynamo FC
Friday, July 21, 2023
Venue: Exploria Stadium - Orlando, Florida
Referee: Filip Dujic
Assistants: Ryan Graves, Kevin Lock
Fourth Official: Kimbell Ward
VAR: Oscar Macias Romo
Attendance: 14,005
Weather: 89 degrees, partly cloudy
SCORING SUMMARY
HOU: Amine Bassi (penalty kick) 45+5’
ORL: Duncan McGuire (unassisted) 46’
Shootout
HOU: Héctor Herrera - SAVED
ORL: Ercan Kara - MAKE
HOU: Thorleifur Úlfarsson - MAKE
ORL: Rafael Santos - MAKE
HOU: Adalberto Carrasquilla - MAKE
ORL: Robin Jansson - MAKE
HOU: Griffin Dorsey - MAKE
ORL: Antonio Carlos - MAKE
HOU: Brad Smith - MAKE
ORL: Facundo Torres - MAKE
DISCIPLINE SUMMARY
ORL: Robin Jansson (cation; dissent) 45+4’
ORL: Pedro Gallese (caution; time wasting) 45+5’
ORL: Facundo Torres (caution; foul) 64’
ORL: Iván Angulo (caution; foul) 89’
LINEUPS & STATS
Orlando City SC: Pedro Gallese; Kyle Smith (Dagur Thórhallsson 46’), Antonio Carlos, Robin Jansson (c) Rafael Santos; Iván Angulo (Juninho 90’), Wilder Cartagena, César Araújo; Facundo Torres, Martin Ojeda (Ramiro Enrique 63’); Duncan McGuire (Ercan Kara 63’)
Unused Substitutes: Felipe Campanholi Martins, Rodrigo Schlegel, Luca Petrasso, Abdi Salim, Mason Stajduhar, Javier Leon Otero, Thomas Williams III, Favian Loyola
Total shots: 16 (Facundo Torres 4)
Shots on goal: 5 (five players tied with 1)
Fouls: 12
Offside: 2
Corner kicks: 8
Saves: 0
Houston Dynamo FC: Andrew Tarbell; Griffin Dorsey, Erik Sviatchenko, Micael, Franco Escobar; Amine Bassi (Iván Franco 79’), Luís Caicedo (Héctor Herrera 61’), Artur (c); Nelson Quiñónes (Thorleifur Úlfarsson 45’), Aliyu Ibrahim (Adalberto Carrasquilla 61’), Corey Baird (Brad Smith 79’)
Unused substitutes: Ethan Bartlow, Sebastián Ferreira, Steve Clark, Charles Auguste, Mujeeb Murana, Brooklyn Raines, Xavier Valdez
Total shots: 7 (seven players tied with 1)
Shots on goal: 1 (Amine Bassi 1)
Fouls: 10
Offside: 1
Corner kicks: 2
Saves: 4 (Andrew Tarbell 4)
HOUSTON DYNAMO HEAD COACH BEN OLSEN
On the result:
“We just tied them on the road. You lose a penalty shootout, okay, but you get yourself a point, and you live to fight another day at home against a good team with Santos Laguna coming in. If we win that one, I think we're in pretty good shape.”
On having Coco Carrasquilla and Héctor Herrera:
“It’s nice. It's nice to have (Coco Carrasquilla) and Héctor (Herrera). One left for a while, and one left for a week. It was nice to have the gang back together. It increases our depth and our options. Obviously, they're pivotal to what we're doing here at Houston, both players. It was nice to get them a little bit of a blow today. I can anticipate them playing more minutes Tuesday at home. We’re looking forward to that match. We know it's a very good team coming into town, but we've played pretty good at home. The goal tonight was to get one, two or three points, so you can control your destiny a little bit when you come home. We’ve got a quick turnaround. Because we're one of the lowest seeds in the tournament, they get the rest, everybody gets the rest, and we get to, uh, quickly turn around and play another match.”
On the tactical approach:
“For the most part, it was okay. We planned to have a little bit more of the ball, and I thought it was a night where we just didn't connect enough passes. At times, we’re hitting the home run ball when it's a hot game. We just cost ourselves a lot of work defensively because we complicated the game, or we were just a little bit off in the passing. To a man, it just wasn't a great night for us passing and connecting the game. When you can't do that, you can't go the other way. But we had opportunities, and they had opportunities. They certainly had more down the stretch in the second half. We got tired mostly because we couldn't deal with the ball, hold on to longer possession. They did a better job of that. That added up throughout the game. However, we held the fort well. We made some saves, defended the box well and defended some of the set pieces. It’s not easy coming on the road in MLS, and to come here and get a tie, I'm proud of that. It wasn't our best night soccer-wise, but on nights where we're not playing at our best and we don't have our full group out there, it’s still nice to get a point.”
HOUSTON DYNAMO MIDFIELDER ADALBERTO CARRASQUILLA (TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH)
On his first game with the team since returning from the Gold Cup:
“Well, I felt good in the few minutes I played tonight. Very happy to be back with the team and well, the goal is to connect as quickly as possible and contribute to the team whatever is necessary to move forward in this tournament.”
On the keys to Tuesday’s game:
“We're playing at home. You have to take advantage of that, take the game to the opponent and create opportunities, just take advantage of it. We will have two or three days to prepare for the game and will do so in the best way.”
