Welcome to your match thread for a Saturday night match-up between Orlando City (5-8-3, 18 points) and the Columbus Crew (5-10-2, 17 points). This is the first of two scheduled meetings between the Eastern Conference rivals in 2019, with the return leg in Orlando taking place two weeks from today.
The Lions are 2-5-3 in the all-time series but have never won in Columbus (0-3-1). The last meeting between the two teams took place last Oct. 21, with Orlando winning 2-1 on a pair of penalty kick goals. Yoshimar Yotún and Sacha Kljestan provided the spot kicks to offset Federico Higuain’s opening goal.