After a loss at Nashville SC that ended their good run, Inter Miami CF returns home to the DRV PNK Stadium this Saturday, May 20 (7:30PM TV: APP Apple TV) to face their neighbors Orlando City Is. Already a classic Florida duel.
Miami XI will hope that the warmth and energy of their fans will help them return to winning ways and grab the top spot in the standings. At home the team has won four of their six matches, including a win against Leaders Revolution last Saturday.
After a 2–1 loss on the road to Nashville, Inter fell from 5th in the East to 11th with 15 points after five wins and seven losses.
Its rival is currently placed 10th in the table in the same conference with 16 points from four wins, four draws and four losses.
Both will go without much rest after playing last weekend and completing a busy MLS schedule this Wednesday.
In the defeat on 17 May, Inter played one of their worst matches, with a poor first half going goalless and a second that was not much better apart from a goal by Ecuadorian midfielder Dixon Arroyo, who finally scored. Miami’s only shot between three sticks in the entire game.
Young David Ruiz, the lucky man, did not play after being sent off for a double yellow card in the previous game. The Miami native of Honduran parents coming from the academy has provided balance to the midfield and that was not the case with Victor Ulloa.
It is true that there were also many changes and this created an imbalance that made Nashville look much better.
But you have to turn the page and go into Orlando with a different mindset, as their coach Phil Neville expressed last Wednesday after the loss.
Neville said, “It’s been a long time since we lost.” “We need to bounce back against Orlando. It’s a great game, great game to recover and the team will be ready.”
Prior to the fall, Miami had won five straight games in all competitions, 3 in MLS and 2 in the US Open Cup, breaking another streak, this time negative, of six consecutive losses.
And it is that this team is like youth, full of ups and downs, sometimes brilliant games and others where they are not even their shadow, in fact they have not even achieved a draw.
Neville is expected to bring his best eleven against Orlando, without any invention, and does so by keeping his forward Josep Martínez together with the team’s top scorer Leonardo Campana.
Campana said, “We lost and we were angry, but this group has a good mentality and now we have an important game against our opponent.” “We need to get those three points. I hope the stadium is full. Our fans will be very important for this game.”
Orlando has earned four wins in their last 11 meetings. Inter have so far registered three wins and four draws. Occasion. Whatever happens, a great match is expected between the two rivals who know each other very well.
