The Mane Land PawedCast

Orlando City marched past the New England Revolution in the U.S. Open Cup Round of 16 but it wasn’t easy. We discuss a game that seemed destined for penalties until Benji Michel checked in and brought the energy. There are, unfortunately, some injuries to discuss, as well as the recall of Mason Stajduhar. OCB lost again and didn’t look great doing it, so we quickly gloss over that in our OCB Minut...

We return after a week off. The week off wasn’t intended and in fact we did record what was probably our best show of all time, but I forgot to change back my settings from another task and therefore we didn’t get any of Dave’s audio to record. I debated putting it out anyway as performance art, allowing listeners to try to guess what Dave said, but in the end I opted to skip it. I was too distrau...

Orlando City Stadium is no more. Long live...Exploria Stadium? No, it’s not named after one of the characters on My Little Pony, but instead after a resort company. Money is good and the company gave our club a substantial amount of it, although we don’t know the final amount, which is not all that uncommon. Kudos to the sales folks over at OCSC for making it happen, even if some people don’t seem...

Orlando City went back to being offensively challenged this week after its five-goal outburst against Cincinnati, getting shut out at home by the LA Galaxy (sans Zlatan). Dave and I break down the match and the unsuccessful penalty by Nani. We also pick our Man of the Match selections. The Pride went to Utah and also failed to score. That makes five times in seven matches that the Pride have faile...

Orlando City split a pair of games since we last talked but overall the team played well and got to rotate a lot of new faces into the lineup. Following a lot of lesser-used players having a good showing on the road in Seattle in a losing effort, the team returned home and promptly put a whoopin’ on FC Cincinnati. We’ve got two breakdowns for you and two unanimous selections for Man of the Match....

Orlando City SC again failed to capture a win against Atlanta United and for the second straight match failed to find the net. Although the 1-0 loss wasn’t great, it could have been either better or worse. A draw seemed like a fair result but life isn’t fair. We break down the match, discuss Dom Dwyer and the Lions’ missing offense, and give our Man of the Match picks. We touch on the USWNT’s send...

Orlando City SC gave all of us a weekend’s worth of sadness with two losses and a draw between the three teams and not one single goal to cheer about. In fact, there weren’t even many shots on target that might actually lead to a goal as the Lions lost 2-0, the Pride fell 1-0, and the Young Lions played to a scoreless draw. We broke down the MLS side’s home loss to Toronto FC and picked our OCSC M...

Orlando City earned another road point, making it three out of four away games this season where the Lions have brought something home with them. It could have been more if not for a brutal miss by Dom Dwyer at New York City FC, but we’re not here to bury a human who made an error while trying to score a goal. We would have liked him to score but there’s nothing we can do about that, so we’re movi...

Orlando City bounced back from the Real Salt Lake loss by doing something it had never before done — beat the Vancouver Whitecaps. The Lions left it late but managed to grind out a 1-0 win against the bunkering Caps on a Nani deflection of Sacha Kljestan’s shot. It turns out that winning is better than not winning and so we celebrate this week and pick our Man of the Match. We differed on the choi...

Orlando City went from its first home win to its first ever loss to Real Salt Lake in the span of a week. The trip to Utah didn’t go as we’d hoped, and perhaps part of that can be traced back to the starting lineup. We discuss James O’Connor’s team selection, the weirdness of the first RSL goal, Chris Mueller as a starter and much more, plus our Man of the Match selections. The Pride opened their...

Orlando City finally got a win at the purple palace with a comeback (twice) against the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night. The game ended 4-3, so it was full of goals and had a couple of big moments that require discussion and so we discuss them in our breakdown segment and pick our unanimous Man of the Match. We’re also preparing for the Pride’s 2019 NWSL season opener this weekend against Portla...

Orlando City did not follow up the big win at New York with a home victory against D.C. United. Instead, the Lions fell at home to United and, as usual, there was controversy. It didn’t cost Orlando a win — poor finishing and set piece defending did that — but there were some items that affected the final outcome. Anyway, it gave us an opportunity to try out a new sound effect. We broke down the g...

Orlando City did the improbable by going into Red Bull Arena and taking all three points from last year’s Supporters’ Shield winners. We’re breaking down the Lions’ 1-0 win over the Red Bulls and the solid game plan that allowed them to do so. Plus, our Man of the Match picks. We also discuss the Pride’s preseason loss at North Carolina and touch on the upcoming OCB opener on Saturday at Montverde...

Now that we’ve all gotten over the shock that Orlando City isn’t going undefeated in 2019, it’s time to dissect the problems the Lions had against the Montreal Impact in Saturday’s 3-1 home loss. We break down the game and how individual errors were costly. We also talked about the Orlando Pride’s preseason roster update and touched on the team’s Media Day, albeit briefly and not in as much detail...

The Lions are back to doing Lion things, squandering two points at the death in Chicago. OK, it really didn’t matter that Chicago scored one it shouldn’t have when you consider the two it should have scored didn’t go in, but still...some draws feel less good than others. Still, Orlando City remains unbeaten and getting points on the road is not a gimme, so let’s take it and move on. We break down...

We’re back watching meaningful soccer games again and you know what that means — controversial calls are once again costing Orlando City valuable points. Hey, everyone but Baldomero Toledo knows it was a handball (and he probably even knows it by now) but let’s take the point and move on because gaining a point from a position of two goals behind is not an easy thing to do. We’ve got a breakdown o...

It’s been a long time since we’ve talked, and I apologize for that. Moving into a new neighborhood, it didn’t occur to me that I’d have to wait for high speed internet infrastructure to be installed in my community.  Now there’s no way we can cover everything that’s happened since December, so we stuck to some of the major talking points. We discuss the Nani signing, obviously, and the Orlando Cit...

We’re a little late this month but the momentous 150th episode of the PawedCast is now available for your listening...well, pleasure might not be the right word, but here it is anyway. We have a ton of stuff to discuss, including about an hour of Orlando CIty trade and transfer rumor talk. Yoshi’s gone and we’re sad about that but life goes on and none of us know what might happen next. We touch o...

With the 2018 MLS and NWSL seasons behind Orlando fans, we turn our attention to the Orlando City goings-on of the off-season, notably the partnership with Wolfsburg and the hiring of Ricardo Moreira as OCSC’s new director of scouting. We’ve also got some words to say about the USMNT and USWNT and their final matches of 2018. Orlando SeaWolves Head Coach Tom Traxler stopped by to visit and tell us...

The Lions lost in their season finale but they didn’t go out like lambs, as Orlando City fought for 90+ minutes against an eventual game-winning — and Supporters’ Shield-winning — New York Red Bulls side on the road. It was no moral victory but at least the lads in purple showed up with plenty of fight in them against the league’s best regular season team instead of taking a beating like last year...

Y’all ain’t gonna believe this, but we get to actually recap an Orlando City victory this week! The Lions hit two penalty kicks to win the 2018 home finale 2-1 over the Columbus Crew and we are here to discuss it and give you our unanimous Man of the Match selection. Please forgive us, but in our excitement we forgot to discuss Orlando’s 2-1 loss last Wednesday to the Sounders. Oh well. We also di...

The Lions lost yet another game without so much as scoring a goal — that’s five shutouts in a row now — and it turns out that a low-scoring team is not helped by missing both its strikers and most significant attacking midfielder. We’ve got your Orlando CIty-New England Revolution breakdown, such as it is, and our Man of the Match picks. We also discussed the news about Sydney Leroux’s summer illn...

The Lions were back in action this weekend and so obviously the Lions were not winning or scoring goals again on Saturday. The latest shutout came at the hands of FC Dallas, a team that has never given up a goal to Orlando City. That trend continued with a 2-0 loss Saturday night and we’re here to talk (briefly) about it and give you our Man of the Match. We also look ahead to the rematch in Foxbo...

We had a relaxing weekend for a change with no Orlando City match to cause us stress, but that’s about to change. The Lions are heading into Big D to take on FC Dallas. You’ll get our key match-ups and score predictions, plus our conversation with Ben Lyon of SB Nation’s Dallas blog, Big D Soccer. We discuss the recent Orlando Pride roster announcement, and talk about which players the team should...

Orlando City still can’t buy a goal right now but thanks to goalkeeper Adam Grinwis — in his MLS debut — and a first-choice back line finally healthy, the Lions grabbed a point at home in a 0-0 draw against the Houston Dynamo. There’s not a lot of scoring to recap, but we do our best to give you the flavor of the game and we do pick our Man of the Match. Marta represented the Orlando Pride well at...