{"id":928834,"date":"2026-08-22T07:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/orlando-have-no-other-focus-than-winning-against-salt-lake-insists-dorsey\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:17:02","slug":"orlando-have-no-other-focus-than-winning-against-salt-lake-insists-dorsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/orlando-have-no-other-focus-than-winning-against-salt-lake-insists-dorsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando have \u2018no other focus\u2019 than winning against Salt Lake, insists Dorsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Orlando City SC defender Griffin Dorsey insisted they have &#8220;no other focus than getting three points against Real Salt Lake on Saturday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando have struggled in recent weeks, failing to win any of their last three MLS outings (D1 L2) after returning from the World Cup break with back-to-back victories.<\/p>\n<p>Last time out, Orlando fell to a 2-1 defeat against the Chicago Fire to leave them 10th in the Eastern Conference, three points off the play-off places.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of hosting RSL, Dorsey&#8217;s only objective is to help Orlando get back into the win column.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think ultimately it&#8217;s just about getting a win,&#8221; said the defender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s really no other focus than getting three points against Salt Lake on Saturday. For us, it&#8217;s just about controlling what we can control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doing our job individually will only help the group do their job as a whole. It&#8217;s just about maintaining good details and good focus for the game on Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Back in purple\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Orlando City SC (@OrlandoCitySC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OrlandoCitySC\/status\/2090462611787927905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>RSL are also in poor form, failing to win any of their five games since returning from the break (D2 L3).<\/p>\n<p>Their results seemed to be changing for the better after securing a place in the quarter-finals of the Leagues Cup, but RSL have only drawn against Minnesota United and lost to FC Dallas since.<\/p>\n<p>They lost 4-3 to Dallas, conceding a 90th-minute winner at home to extend their winless run in MLS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAYERS TO WATCH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Orlando City SC \u2013 Antoine Griezmann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Antoine Griezmann contributed to nine of Orlando&#8217;s 16 shots against Chicago (five chances created, four shots).<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time an Orlando player had at least four shots and four chances created in an MLS match since Martin Ojeda did so last October at Toronto FC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Real Salt Lake \u2013 Saba Lobjanidze<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saba Lobjanidze has three assists in his first five appearances with Real Salt Lake, despite coming off the bench in all five.<\/p>\n<p>Lobjanidze, who did not record his first substitute assist until July 22, is tied with Paul Marie for most assists by a substitute this season (three).<\/p>\n<p><strong>MATCH PREDICTION:\u00a0ORLANDO CITY SC WIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Real Salt Lake are winless in six straight regular-season matches (D3 L3), with four of those matches coming on the road (D2 L2).<\/p>\n<p>They have also managed just two wins in their last 21 regular-season away matches (D7 L12), including going winless in seven straight on the road (D3 L4).<\/p>\n<p>However, RSL have won two of their last three meetings with Orlando (D1), with both wins coming at America First Field, though the last was over three years ago (July 2023).<\/p>\n<p>Orlando have never lost to RSL at home, winning once and drawing twice, with the last meeting at Inter.co Stadium coming in February 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPTA WIN PROBABILITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Orlando City SC \u2013 48.5%<\/p>\n<p>Draw \u2013 21.9%<\/p>\n<p>Real Salt Lake \u2013 29.6%<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/orlando-have-no-other-focus-than-winning-against-salt-lake-insists-dorsey\/403623\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>SoccerNews Editorial Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Orlando City SC defender Griffin Dorsey insisted they have &#8220;no other focus than getting three points against Real Salt Lake on Saturday&#8221;. Orlando have struggled in recent weeks, failing to win any of their last three MLS outings (D1 L2) after returning from the World Cup break with back-to-back victories. Last time out, Orlando [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":928835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50018,804,2005],"tags":[9674,6614],"class_list":["post-928834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-no","category-orlando","category-soccer","tag-no","tag-orlando"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}