{"id":30018,"date":"2025-10-30T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30018\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:53:10","slug":"lafc-wins-mls-playoffs-opener-against-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30018\/","title":{"rendered":"LAFC wins MLS playoffs opener against Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nathan Ordaz scored an easy tap-in in the 79th minute<\/a> to give LAFC a 2-1 victory<\/a> over Austin on Wednesday night to begin the best-of-three series in the MLS playoffs.<\/p>\n

LAFC<\/a> plays at Austin on Sunday for a chance to advance to the Western Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n

LAFC took a 1-0 lead in the 20th minute on Brendan Hines-Ike\u2019s own goal. Ryan Hollingshead beat his defender in the box for a cross in front of goal that was deflected in by Hines-Ike.<\/p>\n

Jon Gallagher tied it at 1-1 in the 63rd for Austin. A loose ball in front of net fell to the feet of Myrto Uzuni, who poked it to Owen Wolff for a feed to a wide-open Gallagher at the back post.<\/p>\n

Son Heung-Min started the game-winning sequence with a long run to get into the area and draw defenders for a pass to Denis Bouanga, whose shot took a deflection to Ordaz at the back post.<\/p>\n

Austin won the two regular-season meetings with LAFC this year by a 1-0 scoreline \u2014 both goals coming on headers off corner kicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Ordaz scored an easy tap-in in the 79th minute to give LAFC a 2-1 victory over Austin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5994,22147,22148,22151,22149,22154,17063,15722,48,52,51,12407,22152,47,50,49,12408,22150,22146,22153,17064],"class_list":["post-30018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-austin","tag-back-post","tag-brendan-hines-ike","tag-cross","tag-defender","tag-deflection","tag-denis-bouanga","tag-front","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lafc","tag-loose-ball","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mls-playoff","tag-nathan-ordaz","tag-own-goal","tag-ryan-hollingshead","tag-son-heung-min"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30018","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=30018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}