{"id":376011,"date":"2026-10-18T02:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376011\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T02:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:28:14","slug":"leo-walta-scores-for-lafc-in-draw-with-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376011\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Walta scores for LAFC in draw with New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Andres Perea scored a goal and Matt Freese had two saves for New York City FC on Saturday night in a 1-1 tie with <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/soccer\/lafc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perea slammed home a header off a corner kick played in by Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez to make it 1-1 in the 59th minute.<\/p>\n<p>NYCFC (8-12-10) is winless, with three losses, in its last five games.<\/p>\n<p>Leo Walta, acquired Aug. 31 by LAFC on loan, scored his first career MLS goal in his fourth appearance. The 23-year-old midfielder put away a straightaway free kick from 30 yards out to open the scoring in first-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Lloris had three saves for LAFC (12-9-10).<\/p>\n<p>Up next for LAFC: Hosts the Galaxy on Oct. 25.<\/p>\n<p>           <img id=\"yt-img-0a8FiFwPzpA\" class=\"absolute\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792290494_471_hqdefault.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andres Perea scored a goal and Matt Freese had two saves for New York City FC on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38015,12876,64863,6964,55343,27823,54940,128491,138288,9931,63796,33304,9,24,55,54,56,58292,59659],"class_list":["post-376011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-andres-perea","tag-draw","tag-first-half-stoppage-time","tag-game","tag-goal","tag-hosts","tag-hugo-lloris","tag-lafc","tag-leo-walta","tag-loan","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-matt-freese","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-save","tag-scoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}