LAFC2 fell to San Jose Earthquakes II on Sunday night, 3-2, at Spartan Soccer Complex in San Jose, Calif.\u00a0 A late comeback that saw the Black & Gold score twice in the final 11 minutes was not enough, as San Jose took control in the first half and never trailed.<\/p>\n
Kaedren Spivey of Earthquakes II opening the scoring in the 18th minute before Zachary Bohane doubled the hosts\u2019 advantage six minutes later. LAFC2 generated chances of its own, but entered halftime trailing 2-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Earthquakes added a third goal in the 68th minute when Tomo Allen finished from the center of\u00a0the box to make the score 3-0. LAFC2 responded in the closing stages, as Lisandro Torres pulled one back in the 79th\u00a0minute with a left-footed strike from outside the box. Adrian Sanders then headed home a Liam\u00a0Lambert corner kick in the 86th minute to cut the deficit to one, but the Black & Gold could not find\u00a0an equalizer.<\/p>\n
LAFC2 finished with 14 shots,\u00a0including five on target. Black & Gold goalkeeper Benjamin Failla made four saves as San Jose held a 19-14\u00a0advantage in total attempts.<\/p>\n
With the result, LAFC2 remains on 41 points with three regular-season matches remaining. The\u00a0Black & Gold sits in fifth place in the Western Conference with a six-point cushion over ninth-place North Texas SC, the first team currently outside the playoff field. Austin FC II, Timbers2,\u00a0and Houston Dynamo 2 have already clinched postseason berths.<\/p>\n
LAFC2 returns to action on Saturday, September 5, when the club hosts Ventura County at\u00a0Titan Stadium in Fullerton, Calif. Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m., and the match will be available on\u00a0MLSNEXTPro.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAFC2 fell to San Jose Earthquakes II on Sunday night, 3-2, at Spartan Soccer Complex in San Jose,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[97655,97656,88522,76728,100,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-449611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-lafc2","tag-los-angeles-football-club-2","tag-match-recap","tag-mls-next-pro","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449611","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=449611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}