SAN DIEGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Amahl Pellegrino added some insurance with a short-handed goal in the second half, Anders Dreyer had two assists and San Diego FC went on to beat the Galaxy 3-1 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Rookie Elias Achouri staked San Diego (8-8-6) to a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute with his second goal in four matches and it stood through halftime. Dreyer and Onni Valakari had assists.<\/p>\n
Dreyer set up rookie defender Kieran Sargeant for his first career goal three minutes into the second half for a two-goal lead. It was the 11th assist for Dreyer, leaving him in a three-way tie for the league lead.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Jeppe Tverskov left San Diego a man down when he was tagged for his second yellow card in the 50th minute and Hirving \u201cChucky\u201d Lozano scored unassisted five minutes later to cut it to 2-1.<\/p>\n
It was Lozano\u2019s first goal with the Galaxy after finishing with nine goals and 10 assists for San Diego last season \u2014 his first in the league.<\/p>\n
Pellegrino gave San Diego a two-goal advantage in the 70th minute with his third netter this season.<\/p>\n
CJ dos Santos finished with seven saves for San Diego.<\/p>\n
Novak Micovic stopped three shots in his sixth start this season for the Galaxy (6-9-8).<\/p>\n
Up next: hosts New England Revolution on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Amahl Pellegrino added some insurance with a short-handed goal in the second half, Anders Dreyer had two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[177312,11384,11383,6265,177313,177314,177310,177315,5814,177311,74,76,75,24843,278,73698,777],"class_list":["post-447813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-11th-minute","tag-amahl-pellegrino","tag-anders-dreyer","tag-assist","tag-chucky","tag-first-career-goal","tag-galaxy-loss","tag-hirving","tag-lead","tag-lozano-score","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-saturday-night","tag-season","tag-second-goal","tag-second-half"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447813","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=447813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}