{"id":555272,"date":"2026-07-23T06:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/555272\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:15:15","slug":"son-bouanga-score-goals-as-lafc-beats-real-salt-lake-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/555272\/","title":{"rendered":"Son, Bouanga score goals as LAFC beats Real Salt Lake 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/heung-min-son-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Son Heung-min<\/a> scored a goal for the second consecutive game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/denis-bouanga-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denis Bouanga<\/a> added a goal, and Los Angeles FC beat Real Salt Lake 3-1 on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/hugo-lloris-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo Lloris<\/a>, who leads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/mls\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS<\/a> with nine shutouts this season, had six saves for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/los-angeles-fc-lafc-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAFC<\/a> (9-5-3). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/son-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Son<\/a>, who scored his first goal this season Friday in a 3-0 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/los-angeles-galaxy-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA<\/a> Galaxy, opened the scoring in the 11th minute. The 34-year-old forward pushed the ball wide to his left to create space from a defender and then blasted his next touch inside the near post from the end of the penalty arc. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/mathieu-choiniere-3-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mathieu Choiniere<\/a> played a ball ahead, the last of four consecutive first-touch passes by LAFC, to Bouanga, who raced to the center of the area, cut back to evade a defender and fired a shot into the net to make it 2-0 in the 40th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/deandre-yedlin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeAndre Yedlin&#8217;s<\/a> own goal capped the scoring in the 68th minute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/lukas-engel-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Engel<\/a>, a 30-year-old defender in his second MLS season, scored his first career goal in the 86th minute for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/real-salt-lake-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RSL<\/a> (8-5-2). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/rafael-cabral-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Cabral<\/a> had one save. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-a2155f14=\"\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Son Heung-min scored a goal for the second consecutive game, Denis Bouanga added a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[251938,170025,143902,100051,85,46,67919,251939,235920,106390,251940,36144,158927,105],"class_list":["post-555272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-deandre-yedlin","tag-denis-bouanga","tag-event_recap","tag-hugo-lloris","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-los-angeles-fc","tag-lukas-engel","tag-mathieu-choiniere","tag-mls","tag-rafael-cabral","tag-real-salt-lake","tag-son-heung-min","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}