Colorado won its first match against Orlando City the last time the sides met, in March 2020. Orlando had won four of the first five meetings (D1) between the sides but has only one win in three visits to Colorado (D1 L1).
Colorado has lost back-to-back home matches, conceding three goals in each game, after going unbeaten in its previous 23 regular season home matches (W14 D9). The six goals allowed by the Rapids in the two home losses comes after allowing just seven goals in their previous 17 home league matches combined.
Orlando City suffered a 1-0 defeat in Cincinnati on June 24 in the club’s last away match. It was just Orlando’s second away defeat of the season (W3 D4). No team in MLS has lost fewer away matches than Orlando this season (tied with Columbus and Philadelphia).
Colorado came from 2-0 down to draw, 2-2, at Real Salt Lake on Saturday with goals in the 67th and 89th minutes. The comeback marked the first time the Rapids avoided defeat in a match in which they trailed by multiple goals in the 60th minute or later since July 2014 at Philadelphia.
Orlando City’s winning goal against Miami came on an own goal by Damion Lowe in the second minute of stoppage time, the lone goal of the game. That marked the first time in MLS history that a match ended 1–0 with the lone goal in that game being a stoppage time own goal.
