secured victory in LAFC\u2019s last MLS contest<\/a>. And Ordaz has one apiece in CCC and MLS.<\/p>\nWith Son Heung-min scoring once as he operates as a facilitator \u2013 the 33-year-old South Korean star has seven assists in all competitions \u2013 Nkosi Tafari, Timothy Tillman, Mark Delgado and Stephen Eust\u00e1quio picked up the slack.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy focus \u2013 me and the staff \u2013 was to build a team with a big \u2018T,\u2019\u201d Dos Santos said Friday. \u201cAnd when you\u2019re a team, you\u2019re going to have seasons inside the season, where a player is going to be the protagonist, two players maybe, but what we want the majority of the time is the team above all and a lot of different players participating. We don\u2019t know who is going to score. We don\u2019t know where the goals are going to come from, and I think that\u2019s pretty positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
LAFC\u2019s attacking depth offset the absences of Jeremy Ebobisse and Jacob Shaffelburg since the start of the year. When the MLS calendar resumes April 4 at home against Orlando, Dos Santos plans on both forwards being available.<\/p>\n
The coach hopes the same is true for\u00a0Eust\u00e1quio, who took a knock to his leg colliding with referee Drew Fischer on March 1.\u00a0The calming midfield presence missed the last three games with a dead leg following a setback in rehab that cost him a call-up to the Canadian national team this window.<\/p>\n
Reinforcing a stout defensive unit, center back Aaron Long, who underwent knee surgery last July, is likely to be reintegrated into team training by the end of the month.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now before the break, we have to focus on the run we\u2019re having,\u201d Dos Santos said. \u201cCan we continue? Can we win five in a row and keep pushing? That\u2019s our objective as a group.\u201d<\/p>\n
LAFC at AUSTIN FC<\/p>\n
When: 5:45 pm. PT Saturday<\/p>\n
Where:\u00a0Q2 Stadium, Austin, Texas<\/p>\n
TV\/Radio: FOX (Ch. 11), Apple TV\/710 AM, 980 AM, 1230 AM, ESPN LA App, SiriusXM FC 157<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unbeaten in a club-best eight consecutive games to open the season, the Los Angeles Football Club is poised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,137,2660,731,154],"class_list":["post-213739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-lafc","tag-los-angeles-football-club","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}