By Official Florida FC
This was not a good weekend for soccer in the Sunshine State. All three professional squads lost league matches. Orlando City and the Orlando Pride lost at Exploria Stadium on consecutive days. Inter Miami’s road woes continued on Saturday in Ohio.
Here is the MLS Matchday 6 roundup:
Nashville 2, Orlando City 0
A kidney punch of a restart and the league MVP doing what he does was enough to sink Orlando City on Saturday night.
Reigning MLS MVP Hany Mukhtar quickly took a free kick. He found the path of Fafa Picault who chipped Orlando City goalie Pedro Gallese in the 28th minute. Mukhtar scored his first of the season in the 74th to end it.
Orlando City (2-2-2, 8 points) has scored three goals in five matches at Exploria Stadium. The Lions will not play over Eastern weekend, so they have a fortnight to figure out how to score goals.
Cincinnati 1, Inter Miami 0
The Herons lost their fourth straight match on Saturday night at TQL Stadium.
Yerson Mosquera’s header in first half stoppage time was enough to power the hosts past the Floridians. Somehow, he beat two players to the near post to finish off Álvaro Barreal’s service from a corner kick.
Josef Martinez, whose signing was hailed in the offseason, has yet to score for Inter Miami. The one-time predatory forward produced a 70th minute shot on goal that was comfortably saved by FC Cincinnati keeper Roman Celentano.
Inter Miami has been shut out in three of its last four games. Martinez has played 413 minutes this season with only three shots on goal.
With MLS’ very forgiving playoff format, the Herons (2-4, 6 points) are far from out of things. Inter Miami is in tenth place in the Eastern Conference, eight points behind first-place Cincinnati (4-0-2, 14 points).
Cincinnati is the only undefeated team in the Eastern Conference.
