{"id":220566,"date":"2026-03-15T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220566\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:29:10","slug":"galaxy-cant-keep-pace-with-dejan-joveljic-and-kansas-city-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220566\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy can’t keep pace with Dejan Joveljic and Kansas City in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dejan Joveljic had a goal and an assist against his former team, Lasse Johnsen had a goal and an assist in his league debut and Sporting Kansas City beat the Galaxy 2-1 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Neither team scored until Joveljic used assists from Manu Garc\u00eda and Johnsen to score two minutes into stoppage time for a 1-0 lead at halftime. Garc\u00eda earned his first assist after tallying nine as a rookie last season.<\/p>\n

Jovelji\u0107, along with Stephen Afrifa, set up an insurance goal by Johnsen in the 74th minute for a 2-0 advantage. Afrifa\u2019s helper was first this season and his second in 39 appearances.<\/p>\n

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That proved necessary for the victory after Marco Reus used his head for an unassisted score in the 82nd minute to cut the Galaxy\u2019s deficit to a goal. Reus scored for the first time this season and the seventh time in 31 career matches.<\/p>\n

John Pulskamp finished with four saves to help Sporting KC (1-2-1) earn its first victory of the season while putting an end to a seven-match losing streak on the road dating to last season.<\/p>\n

Novak Micovic saved two shots for the Galaxy (1-2-1).<\/p>\n

Joveljic totaled 34 goals and 11 assists in 106 starts with the Galaxy from 2021-24. He had 15 goals and six assists during the Galaxy\u2019s championship run in 2024 when he scored the second goal in a 2-1 victory over the New York Red Bullls. His third goal this season gives him 21 along with three assists in 36 matches with Sporting KC.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy played without Gabriel Pec, who was suspended for the match after receiving a red card in a 4-1 road loss to the Colorado Rapids last week. Joseph Paintsil was sidelined with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy have a slim lead in the all-time series 29-28-18, including a 19-9-9 record at home.<\/p>\n

Both teams posted home victories in two matchups last season.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Galaxy: at Portland Timbers on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dejan Joveljic had a goal and an assist against his former team, Lasse Johnsen had a goal and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6265,100889,100887,73761,11247,2194,9512,48,52,51,100888,47,50,49,3289,100890,64049,92569,278,100891,8934],"class_list":["post-220566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-assist","tag-career-match","tag-dejan-joveljic","tag-former-team","tag-galaxy","tag-goal","tag-kansas-city","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lasse-johnsen","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-loss","tag-manu-garcia","tag-marco-reus","tag-rookie-last-season","tag-season","tag-stephen-afrifa","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220566","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=220566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}