{"id":219284,"date":"2026-04-05T04:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219284\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:35:24","slug":"denis-bouangas-5th-career-mls-hat-trick-helps-lafc-beat-orlando-city-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219284\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Bouanga&#8217;s 5th career MLS hat trick helps LAFC beat Orlando City 6-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Bouanga scored three goals, his fifth career hat trick in MLS, and Son Heung-min had four assists to help Los Angeles FC beat Orlando City 6-0 on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p>Sergi Palencia and Tyler Boyd each added a goal for LAFC (6-0-1). Hugo Lloris had six saves.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando City (1-5-0) \u2014 which also conceded a hat trick to Sam Surridge last time out in a 5-0 loss to Nashville and lost 5-0 at New York City FC on March 7 \u2014 set the franchise record for largest margin of defeat in a regular-season game. <\/p>\n<p>Son&#8217;s cross was redirected into the net by Orlando defender David Brekalo to give LAFC a 1-0 lead in the seventh minute. <\/p>\n<p>Bouanga added goals \u2014 all off assists by Son \u2014 in the 20th, 23rd and 28th minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Son fed Sergi Palencia for his first goal of the season made it 5-0 in the 39th and Boyd capped the scoring in the 70th minute with his first MLS goal since July 13, 2024 for Nashville. <\/p>\n<p>Maxime Cr\u00e9peau stopped two shots for Orlando. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denis Bouanga scored three goals, his fifth career hat trick in MLS, and Son Heung-min had four assists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8003,139,141,140,2062,110],"class_list":["post-219284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}