{"id":219471,"date":"2026-04-05T10:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:18:16","slug":"denis-bouanga-and-son-heung-min-power-lafc-to-blowout-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/219471\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Bouanga and Son Heung-min power LAFC to blowout win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Denis Bouanga<\/a> scored three goals, his fifth career hat trick in MLS, and Son Heung-min<\/a> had four assists to help LAFC<\/a> beat Orlando City 6-0 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Sergi Palencia and Tyler Boyd each added a goal for LAFC (6-0-1). Hugo Lloris<\/a> had six saves.<\/p>\n

Orlando City (1-5-0) \u2014 which also conceded a hat trick to Sam Surridge the previous 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 match. <\/p>\n

Son\u2019s cross was redirected into the net by Orlando defender David Brekalo to give LAFC a 1-0 lead in the seventh minute.<\/p>\n

Bouanga added goals \u2014 all off assists by Son \u2014 in the 20th, 23rd and 28th minutes.<\/p>\n

Son fed Sergi Palencia for his first goal of the season that 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

Maxime Cr\u00e9peau stopped two shots for Orlando.<\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24675,5521,1657,99540,99539,190,63686,99541,6567,139,141,140,78435,1960,99538,78432,8007],"class_list":{"0":"post-219471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-assist","9":"tag-cross","10":"tag-denis-bouanga","11":"tag-fifth-career-hat-trick","12":"tag-first-goal","13":"tag-goal","14":"tag-lafc","15":"tag-large-margin","16":"tag-nashville","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-orlando-headlines","19":"tag-orlando-news","20":"tag-sergi-palencia","21":"tag-son","22":"tag-son-heung-min-power-lafc","23":"tag-tyler-boyd","24":"tag-win"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219471","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=219471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}