LAFC2 was defeated by San Jose Earthquakes II 4-1 at PayPal Park in San Jose on Sunday night in MLS NEXT Pro action. LAFC2 forward Ernesto Rodriquez opened the scoring, netting the Black & Gold\u2019s lone goal in the 16th minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
San Jose answered before halftime, leveling the match through Nick Fernandez in the 32nd minute before Julian Donnery added a second goal nine minutes later to send the home side into the break with a 2-1 lead. Noel Buck extended the lead in the 57th minute and Nonso Adimabua added a fourth just five minutes later to seal the result.<\/p>\n
Despite the final scoreline, LAFC2 remained active in attack and finished level with San Jose in shots on goal, 5-5.<\/p>\n
With the loss, LAFC2 is now 0W-1L-1D to open the 2026 MLS NEXT Pro season. The Black & Gold returns on Sunday against Real Monarchs at America First Field in Sandy, UT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAFC2 was defeated by San Jose Earthquakes II 4-1 at PayPal Park in San Jose on Sunday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[97655,97656,88522,76728,100,88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-212496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-lafc2","9":"tag-los-angeles-football-club-2","10":"tag-match-recap","11":"tag-mls-next-pro","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212496","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=212496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}