{"id":152033,"date":"2025-09-18T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152033\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:45:11","slug":"son-heung-min-records-his-first-mls-hat-trick-as-los-angeles-fc-beats-real-salt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152033\/","title":{"rendered":"Son Heung-min records his first MLS hat trick as Los Angeles FC beats Real Salt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SANDY, Utah (AP) \u2014 Son Heung-min secured his first MLS hat trick on a sliding finish in the 82nd minute and Los Angeles FC beat Real Salt Lake 4-1 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Angeles (13-7-8) was coming off a 4-2 victory over San Jose on Saturday when Denis Bouanga recorded his third career hat trick and Heung-min added the other goal in the opening minute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Salt Lake (10-15-4) has lost four of its last five matches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Heung-min, who joining LAFC a month ago from the English Premier League, scored on a breakaway in the third minute for a 1-0 lead. He was left wide open in the middle of the field in the 16th and scored from distance to make it 2-0. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Heung-min ran with Bouanga from midfield on a 2-on-1 breakaway and scored an easy tap-in for a 3-1 advantage. Bouanga scored six minutes later on another breakaway to break a tie with league legend Carlos Vela for the most goals in club history with 94.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">RSL missed a penalty kick in the 45th when Rwan Cruz\u2019s attempt hit off the right post and went across the goal line to goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who had gone the other way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Teenager Zavier Gozo scored on a beautiful bicycle click for RSL in the 76th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANDY, Utah (AP) \u2014 Son Heung-min secured his first MLS hat trick on a sliding finish in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-152033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}