This will be the first meeting between Orlando and Dallas since a scoreless draw in September 2020. Orlando has won one of the six MLS meetings, a 2-0 home victory in August 2019. The Lions failed to score in each of their other five games against Dallas (D2 L3).
Orlando City’s 2-2 draw with Austin on Sunday after leading 2-0 was just the second time the Lions have failed to win after holding a two-goal lead in MLS play (also vs. New England in October 2021 Orlando has a record of W40 D2 L0 in regular season MLS matches in which it’s held a two-goal lead.
FC Dallas has suffered consecutive losses after losing only one of its first 11 matches this season (1-0 at New England on March 5). Dallas has conceded twice in each of the two losses after conceding more than one goal just once in its first 11 matches this season, a 2-2 draw at Sporting Kansas City on April 30.
Both Rodrigo Schlegel and César Araujo were sent off in Orlando’s 2-2 draw with Austin on Sunday, the eighth time (incl. playoffs) the Lions have had multiple players see red in an MLS match. No other team has had multiple players sent off more than four times since Orlando joined MLS in 2015.
Paul Arriola has scored in four straight MLS matches, becoming just the second FC Dallas player to do so in the last decade (Maxi Urruti – 3 times). The last Dallas player to score in more than four straight MLS games was Jeff Cunningham (6 straight) in 2009.
