{"id":12265,"date":"2025-10-19T04:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/12265\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:12:06","slug":"galaxy-close-out-season-with-victory-over-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/12265\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy close out season with victory over Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lagalaxy.com\/players\/matheus-nascimento\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matheus Nascimento<\/a> and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lagalaxy.com\/players\/joseph-paintsil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joseph Paintsil<\/a> each scored on Saturday night to help the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/soccer\/galaxy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy<\/a> beat Minnesota United 2-1 in the regular-season finale for both teams.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota (16-8-10) is fourth in the Western Conference and will play fifth-seeded Seattle in the best-of-three first round of the MLS Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Nascimento gave the Galaxy (7-18-9) the lead for good when he scored on first-touch shot from the center of the area in the 12th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Paintsil, on the counter-attack, outraced the defense down the left sideline and then bounced a low shot off the far post and then slammed home his own rebound to make it 2-0 in the 52nd.<\/p>\n<p>Joaqu\u00edn Pereyra scored in the fifth minute stoppage time for Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>A couple minutes later, the Galaxy\u2019s Edwin Cerrillo was shown a yellow card in the 67th and another, resulting in a red, in the seventh minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matheus Nascimento and Joseph Paintsil each scored on Saturday night to help the Galaxy beat Minnesota United 2-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11251,599,8010,11155,11250,11254,11247,11253,11249,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,11248,4226,11252,278,8934],"class_list":["post-12265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-12th-minute","tag-area","tag-center","tag-defense","tag-fifth-minute-stoppage-time","tag-first-touch-shot","tag-galaxy","tag-good","tag-joseph-paintsil","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-matheus-nascimento","tag-minnesota","tag-mls-cup-playoff","tag-season","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}