Orlando City Positional Breakdown: Defensive Midfielders

Photo by Andrew Bershaw/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesWelcome to the fourth in a series of stories in which we’ll explore how Orlando City is situated entering the MLS SuperDraft later this month and the 2021 season as a whole. We’ll look at each position group and determine the relative strength of the team as we look ahead to the upcoming season. Today we’ll take a look at the defensive midfield.

Orlando City entered the 2020 season having to rebuild what had been a deep group of defensive midfield players, but one that ate up a lot of salary and didn’t necessarily fit the style of play the Lions were looking to put on the field. Between the end of the 2019 season and the start of camp…