Orlando City News Release -- www.orlandocitysoccer.com
Friday, May 3, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando City (4-1-1, 13 points) hosts Antigua Barracuda FC (0-3-0, 0 points) this Saturday night at Fifth Third Bank Field at the Florida Citrus Bowl, with kickoff set for 7:30 p.m. After Tuesday night’s match was cancelled due to severe weather, Orlando looks toward Saturday as the Lions wrap up their first homestand of the 2013 USL PRO regular season.
Orlando is currently undefeated at home through the beginning of the 2013 USL PRO season, winning all three of their matches played in Central Florida. The Lions have an impressive goal differential of +7 in the three home matches played, scoring 10 goals while only allowing three.
Antigua will be coming in off a game on Friday night against VSI Tampa Bay FC where they will be looking for their first points of the season. The Barracudas fell in each of their first three games of the season, before participating in the CFU Club Championship this past week in Trinidad and Tobago. Antigua was the last team to defeat Orlando in the regular season at the Florida Citrus Bowl, taking a 2-1 victory that saw current Barracudas midfielder Randolph Burton score the winning goal.
The Antigua match also marks the beginning of matches in the month of May for the Lions, who travel to play the Seattle Sounders Reserves on Sunday, May 12, to kick off a three-game road swing that lasts the majority of the month of May. The Sounders Reserves match is the first of two for Orlando against the Reserve League side, with the game counting in each team’s respective league tables.
The match between Orlando City SC and VSI Tampa Bay FC was cancelled due to severe weather just before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night. After an hour delay, team and league officials called the game due to an incoming severe weather system that would not allow play to occur. The match has been rescheduled for Wednesday, August 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Fifth Third Bank Field at the Florida Citrus Bowl.