{"id":276380,"date":"2026-04-20T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:31:10","slug":"hugo-lloris-scoreless-run-comes-to-an-end-as-lafc-loses-to-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276380\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Lloris&#8217; scoreless run comes to an end as LAFC loses to Earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ousseni Bouda scored two goals in the second half, ending LAFC goalie Hugo Lloris\u2019 scoreless run to begin the season at 593 minutes, and the San Jos\u00e9 Earthquakes stunned LAFC <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2026\/matches\/lafcvssj-04-19-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4-1 on Sunday night<\/a> in an early Western Conference showdown.<\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 (7-1-0) moves into a first-place tie with the Vancouver Whitecaps in the Western Conference and Supporters\u2019 Shield races in the Earthquakes\u2019 second season under head coach Bruce Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel De Sousa Britto missed a chance to tie Lloris with a sixth clean sheet on an own goal by Reid Roberts in the 74th minute. He had three saves.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SJEarthquakes\/status\/2046022466519363709?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bouda used assists<\/a> from newcomer Timo Werner \u2014 his third \u2014 and Beau Leroux to find the net in the 53rd minute after a scoreless first half.<\/p>\n<p>Werner, sidelined the last two weeks with a lower-body injury, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2046022972381495361?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">took a pass from Leroux<\/a> three minutes later and scored his first MLS goal for a 2-0 lead. Leroux\u2019s assists gives him four, matching his total last season in 33 appearances as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>An own goal on Ryan Porteous in the 59th minute made it 3-0 in a span of six minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Bouda\u2019s fourth goal of the season capped the scoring in the 80th minute. Niko Tsakiris notched his career-high fifth assist.<\/p>\n<p>Lloris finished with two saves in a second straight loss for LAFC (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/standings\/#season=MLS-SEA-0001KA&amp;live=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">5-2-1<\/a>), third in the West. Lloris sat out a 2-1 road loss to the Portland Timbers.<\/p>\n<p>San Jos\u00e9 has won all four of its road matches.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/soccer\/lafc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAFC<\/a> was 6-0-1 at BMO Stadium in all competitions entering play, outscoring its opponents 17-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ousseni Bouda scored two goals in the second half, ending LAFC goalie Hugo Lloris\u2019 scoreless run to begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6265,60666,119547,3934,119548,17065,12407,104744,5463,96696,22146,88,1084,90,89,9011,119546,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-276380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-assist","9":"tag-beau-leroux","10":"tag-early-western-conference-showdown","11":"tag-earthquakes","12":"tag-head-coach-bruce-arena","13":"tag-hugo-lloris","14":"tag-lafc","15":"tag-lloris","16":"tag-minute","17":"tag-ousseni-bouda","18":"tag-own-goal","19":"tag-san-jose","20":"tag-san-jose-earthquakes","21":"tag-san-jose-headlines","22":"tag-san-jose-news","23":"tag-save","24":"tag-scoreless-run","25":"tag-season"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276380","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=276380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}