Orlando City Positional Breakdown: Defensive Midfielders
How are the Lions situated at central midfield headed into the 2021 season?
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Welcome to the fourth in a series of stories in which we’ll explore how 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 in 2020, the club parted ways with Cristian Higuita, Will Johnson, Carlos Ascues, and Dillon Powers. Only Sebas Mendez and Uri Rosell survived the central midfield purge.