ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 David Martinez scored early in the first half and that was all Hugo Lloris needed as Los Angeles FC ended Minnesota United\u2019s four-match winning streak with a 1-0 victory on Saturday.<\/p>\n
LAFC (6-2-2) snapped a 0-2-1 winless stretch with the victory between two clubs tied for third in the Western Conference entering play. Minnesota United (5-3-2) was unbeaten in its previous five outings.<\/p>\n
Martinez scored for the third time this season to give LAFC a 1-0 lead in the 9th minute. It was the 10th career goal for the 20-year-old in 55 matches. Timothy Tillman collected his second assist of the season and Stephen Eust\u00e1quio notched his third in his fifth career match.<\/p>\n
Lloris finished with five saves for LAFC. The 39-year-old has a league-leading eight clean sheets in nine starts this season. It was his 32nd shutout in 78 career matches.<\/p>\n
Drake Callender saved six shots for Minnesota United.<\/p>\n
All four goals Lloris has surrendered this season came in a home loss to the San Jose Earthquakes a week ago. That ended a 593-minute scoreless run to begin the season. He dueled Zack Steffan and the visiting Colorado Rapids to a 0-0 draw on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Joaqu\u00edn Pereyra had a tying shot hit the left post on a giveaway in the 77th minute.<\/p>\n
Callender made a save on a shot by Jeremy Ebobissie in the 85th minute and Denis Bouanga in the 87th to keep the home team in it. He also had a kick save on a shot by Bouanga in the third minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n
Lloris had a save on a header by Pereyra in the final seconds to preserve the victory. Lloris saved a shot by James Rodr\u00edguez that was on target from 35 yards out in stoppage time to keep LAFC in front at the half.<\/p>\n
LAFC lost 2-1 on the road to the Portland Timbers with Thomas Hasal in goal to begin its skid.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Los Angeles: Visits San Diego FC on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Minnesota: Visits the Columbus Crew on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n
The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 David Martinez scored early in the first half and that was all Hugo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-628845","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\/628845","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=628845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}