Orlando City found its shootin' boots on Wednesday in St. Louis, scoring four goals on the road that could have been double that had a little decision making been better, some shots had been a little more precise, and Roman Burki hadn't played so well for St. Louis City. As it was, two Lions scored braces, with Ramiro Enrique a bit unlucky not to score his first hat trick for Orlando. The less we say about Ivan Angulo's failure to give him a tap-in late in the first, the better (but yeah, we discussed it for a bit).

We checked back on our score predictions from earlier this week to see how we did, analyze the key moments and players from the game, and make our selections for Man of the Match. We also talked about which Lions made the MLS Team of the Matchday.

One thing we didn't discuss was Alex Freeman making the MLS All-Star Team. We'll get to that later. It's been a busy week.

The mailbagbox asked about Rafael Santos and bands we'd like to see reunite and go on tour. Remember, if there’s anything — and we do mean anything — you want us to address on the show, just ask us by tweeting it to us at @TheManeLand with the hashtag #AskTMLPC, or hitting us up on Bluesky Social with that same hashtag.

Following the mailbagbox segment, we looked back at another rough outing for OCB against Toronto FC II. The Young Lions were shorthanded, but defensive mistakes handed the visitors a win. We didn't want to dwell on it too long, but if we had, we would have had to discuss how bad OCB's pitch looked. What's up with that?

Finally, we looked ahead to Orlando City's matchup against FC Cincinnati on Saturday. We provide the series history and the current state of both teams in this six-pointer. We also provide our key matchups and our score predictions for the game.

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Here’s how No. 487 went down:

0:15 – Orlando City should have cruised to an easier win, but the Lions got the job done and why you no pass ball, Ivan Angulo?

22:41– The questions in our mailbagbox are both soccer-related and not soccer-related.

32:59 - OCB's loss and Orlando City's date with Cincy.

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