The Orlando Satisfaction ended a six-match winless streak on Tuesday with a 3-0 victory over Alajuelense.
Now the Satisfaction (8-6-4, 28 factors) head to Chicago to tackle the Stars (1-9-8, 11 factors) on Sunday at 3 p.m. in league play with sights set on a second consecutive victory.
“Chicago has gone by some modifications, with the brand new coach coming in and implementing his methods and getting a optimistic end result away at Washington [Spirit],” Orlando coach Seb Hines stated. “We now have to give attention to ourselves, now we have to get again to successful methods. We had a extremely good end result final Tuesday evening within the CONCACAF Champions Cup, so we’re trying to construct on high of that efficiency.”
The final time these two groups confronted off, Orlando emerged with a 6-0 win in March. The Satisfaction maintain an all-time document of 8-12-2 in opposition to the Stars however haven’t misplaced to their Midwest foes of their final 5 matches.
Orlando has struggled in entrance of aim this season, particularly since shedding Barbra Banda to a season-ending harm. Chicago shall be a harder take a look at than Alajuelense, however the Stars have allowed 36 targets in solely 18 matches this season. There shall be loads of alternatives for the Satisfaction to check goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher.
“That feeling of the ball hitting the again of the online and having that type of efficiency [against Alajuelense] can solely construct confidence for the remainder of the crew,” Hines added. “That’s who we’re, that’s our identification, and we need to simply get again to that type of commonplace that we’ve proven all of final yr and early on this yr.”
The Satisfaction will even hope to maintain one other clear sheet, however Chicago does have some offensive expertise to fret about. Ludmila da Silva leads the crew with 9 targets this season, whereas gamers like ahead Allyson Schlegel (2G, 2A) and defender Samantha Staab (1G, 4A) are additionally able to contributing to the assault.
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