LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Ousseni Bouda scored two goals in the second half, ending Hugo Lloris\u2019 scoreless run to begin the season at 593 minutes, and the San Jose Earthquakes stunned Los Angeles FC 4-1 on Sunday night in an early Western Conference showdown. <\/p>\n
San Jose (7-1-0) moves into a first-place tie with the Vancouver Whitecaps in the Western Conference and Supporters\u2019 Shield races in the Earthquakes\u2019 second season under head coach Bruce Arena.<\/p>\n
Daniel De Sousa Britto missed a chance to tie Lloris with a sixth clean sheet on an own goal by Reid Roberts in the 74th minute. He had three saves. <\/p>\n
Bouda used assists from newcomer Timo Werner \u2014 his third \u2014 and Beau Leroux to find the net in the 53rd minute after a scoreless first half. <\/p>\n
Werner, sidelined the past two weeks with a lower-body injury, took a pass from Leroux three minutes later and scored his first MLS goal for a 2-0 lead. Leroux\u2019s assists gives him four, matching his total last season in 33 appearances as a rookie.<\/p>\n
An own goal on Ryan Porteous in the 59th minute made it 3-0 in a span of six minutes.<\/p>\n
Bouda\u2019s fourth goal of the season capped the scoring in the 80th minute. Niko Tsakiris notched his career-high fifth assist.<\/p>\n
Lloris finished with two saves in a second straight loss for LAFC (5-2-1), third in the West. Lloris sat out a 2-1 road loss to the Portland Timbers.<\/p>\n
San Jose has won all four of its road matches.<\/p>\n
LAFC was 6-0-1 at BMO Stadium in all competitions entering play, outscoring its opponents 17-1.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
LAFC: Hosts the Colorado Rapids on Wednesday..<\/p>\n
San Jose: Hosts Austin FC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Ousseni Bouda scored two goals in the second half, ending Hugo Lloris\u2019 scoreless run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-615773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615773","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=615773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}