{"id":630952,"date":"2026-04-27T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630952\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:47:08","slug":"marco-reus-scores-twice-to-rally-la-galaxy-to-victory-over-real-salt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630952\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Reus scores twice to rally LA Galaxy to victory over Real Salt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CARSON, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Marco Reus scored two goals, the second one on a penalty kick in the 85th minute to rally the Los Angeles Galaxy to a 2-1 victory over Real Salt Lake on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reus scored from 21 yards out off a free kick to give the Galaxy a 1-0 lead in the 9th minute. The kick was awarded after Gabriel Pec was fouled by Real Salt Lake midfielder Stijn Spierings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Galaxy goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski was charged with an own goal in the final minute of stoppage time, tying it 1-1 at halftime. The ball deflected off the post and into the net when he dove to make a save on Zavier Gozo\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reus scored the winner on a PK after a foul on Sam Junqua for shoving Elijah Wynder in the back on a corner kick. It was the fourth goal this season for Reus and his 10th in 37 career appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Marcinkowski saved nine shots for Los Angeles (3-4-3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rafael Cabral totaled four saves for Real Salt Lake (5-3-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Real Salt Lake went 5-0-1 in a six-match stretch before losing 2-0 to visiting Inter Miami on Wednesday. The club falls to 1-2-1 on the road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Galaxy were coming off a 1-1-1 road trip and improve to 2-2-1 at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Angeles: Hosts the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Real Salt Lake: Hosts the Portland Timbers on Saturday.<\/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":"CARSON, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Marco Reus scored two goals, the second one on a penalty kick in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-630952","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\/630952","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=630952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}