Austin FC fell in a narrow 2-1 defeat at LAFC in Game 1 of the teams\u2019 Audi MLS Cup Playoffs Round One Best-of-3 series.<\/p>\n
The only goal of a close first half came via a bit of bad fortune for the Verde & Black. LAFC\u2019s Ryan Hollingshead played a low pass across the six-yard box which deflected in off Brendan Hines-Ike.<\/p>\n
Austin responded well coming out of halftime. LAFC\u2019s defense failed to clear the ball in the 63rd minute, and Owen Wolff then tapped it to an open Jon Gallagher who found the net from close range.<\/p>\n
LAFC regained the lead late with the help of another deflection. Denis Bouanga\u2019s shot ricocheted over Brad Stuver and fell to Nathan Ordaz right on the goal line.<\/p>\n
The teams meet again on Sunday night at Q2 Stadium for Game 2.<\/p>\n
LAFC (1-0) \u2013 Brendan Hines-Ike (Own goal) 20\u2019<\/p>\n
ATX (1-1) \u2013 Jon Gallagher (assisted by Owen Wolff, Myrto Uzuni) 63\u2019<\/p>\n
LAFC (2-1) \u2013 Nathan Ordaz (unassisted) 79\u2019<\/p>\n
Venue: BMO Stadium (Los Angeles, CA)<\/p>\n
Weather: Clear, 72 degrees<\/p>\n
Assistant Referee 1: Cory Richardson<\/p>\n
Assistant Referee 2: Kevin Lock<\/p>\n
4th Official: Marcos DeOliveira II<\/p>\n
Statistical source: MLSSoccer.com<\/p>\n
Austin FC will host LAFC in Game 2 of the clubs\u2019 Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs Round One Best-of-3 Series on Sunday, November 2. The match will kick off at 7:30 p.m. CT at Q2 Stadium. Every match in the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs will air on MLS Season Pass and will be available for free for Apple TV subscribers.<\/p>\n
On radio, the match will be broadcast on iHeart Radio\u2019s ALT 97.5 in English, as well as on TUDN Radio Austin (104.3-HD2, KLQB) in Spanish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin FC fell in a narrow 2-1 defeat at LAFC in Game 1 of the teams\u2019 Audi MLS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8915,48,52,51,47,50,49,12003],"class_list":["post-29878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-2025-season","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mls-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29878","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=29878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}