Three early goals proved to be too much for Charlotte FC to overcome, as The Crown fell 3-0 to the LA Galaxy Saturday night in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The hosts opened the scoring in the eighth minute and refused to relent.<\/p>\n
A strike by Galaxy forward Gabriel Pec ricocheted off the post before landing at the feet of teammate Lucas Sanabria, who knocked the ball into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
Another goal three minutes later extended the lead for the Galaxy. It was once again a cross from Pec, this time setting up Brazilian striker Jo\u00e3o Klauss, who found pay dirt. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
L.A. continued its scoring surge in short order.<\/p>\n
Klauss intercepted a Charlotte pass and scored his second goal and the third for the Galaxy — all within the game\u2019s first 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
Spirited efforts from Kerwin Vargas and Wilfried Zaha provided chances for Charlotte, though the shots were denied and sailed wide of the net, respectively.<\/p>\n
A brilliant second-half save by Kristijan Kahlina prevented the Galaxy from extending their lead.<\/p>\n
The second frame also featured the first-team debut of Crown Legacy product Morrison Agyemang. Head Coach Dean Smith subbed Morrison on to start the second half, and the 21-year-old defender played the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n
The Crown return to action next Saturday night against Austin FC in their home opener. It marks the start of five straight home fixtures at Bank of America Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three early goals proved to be too much for Charlotte FC to overcome, as The Crown fell 3-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12815,41121,12811,12807,48,52,51,92532,47,50,49,92534,92533],"class_list":["post-199009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-charlotte-fc","tag-full-time","tag-kerwin-vargas","tag-kristijan-kahlina","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lavsclt-02-28-2026","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-morrison-agyemang","tag-wilfried-zaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199009","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=199009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}