{"id":441038,"date":"2026-08-23T06:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441038\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:22:40","slug":"valakari-achouri-score-goals-san-diego-beats-rapids-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441038\/","title":{"rendered":"Valakari, Achouri score goals, San Diego beats Rapids 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN DIEGO &#8212; Onni Valakari and Elias Achouri scored first-half goals to help San Diego FC beat the Colorado Rapids 3-0 on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After a Rapids giveaway in their defensive third, Valakari opened the scoring in the 27th minute with a first-touch shot from point-blank range. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Gabriel Pirani capped the scoring in the 71st, his second goal in as many games for San Diego (7-8-6). <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Rapids (9-11-1) had won three straight, and four of five, all by shutout, since the World Cup break. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">CJ dos Santos had two saves for San Diego. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Achouri, acquired from Danish Superliga powerhouse FC Copenhagen on July 24, scored his first MLS goal to make it 2-0 in the 36th. After a pair of Rapids defenders allowed the ball to drop in the center of the area, Achouri slammed home the loose ball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nico Hansen had one save for the Rapids. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mls-soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full MLS coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO &#8212; Onni Valakari and Elias Achouri scored first-half goals to help San Diego FC beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9223,74,76,75,1083,127],"class_list":["post-441038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-mls-soccer","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441038","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=441038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}