{"id":32794,"date":"2025-11-03T06:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32794\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:14:21","slug":"bouanga-brace-as-lafc-beats-austin-4-1-to-advance-in-mls-cup-playoffs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/32794\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouanga brace as LAFC beats Austin 4-1 to advance in MLS Cup playoffs | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles FC, fueled by two goals from Denis Bouanga and one apiece by Son Heung-min and Jeremy Ebobisse, beat Austin FC 4-1 on Sunday to advance in the MLS Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n

The victory in Austin, Texas, gave LAFC a 2-0 victory in the best-of-three round one series.<\/p>\n

They booked a one-match Western Conference semi-final showdown with German star Thomas Muller and the Vancouver Whitecaps, who polished off FC Dallas on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Once again, it was the high-scoring duo of Bouanga and Son who did the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n

South Korean star Son, the former Tottenham captain who arrived in August, opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Fed by Bouanga on a counter attack, Son capped his run up the left side with a stinging right-footed shot into the bottom right corner.<\/p>\n

Three minutes later, another deadly LAFC counter-attack finished with Son finding Bouanga on the left side of the box, the Gabon international unleashing a shot that found the bottom left corner as Austin goalkeeper Brad Stuver scrambled to get back to his line.<\/p>\n

Bouanga made it 2-1 in the 44th minute, Austin pulling a goal back in first-half stoppage time when Dani Pereira converted a penalty — his effort barely making it past LAFC keeper Hugo Lloris.<\/p>\n

Lloris had come up with a diving save on a penalty attempt by Myrto Uzuni in the 39th after a hand ball in the penalty area by Bouanga.<\/p>\n

Late sub Ebobisse added LAFC’s fourth in second-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n

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Columbus Crew beat 10-man FC Cincinnati 4-0 to force a decisive game three in their Eastern Conference series.<\/p>\n

US international Max Arfsten put hosts Columbus up 1-0 in the 33rd minute, collecting a pass from Diego Rossi on the edge of the box and dribbing past charging Cincinnati goalkeeper Roman Celanto to bury the shot in the open net.<\/p>\n

Five minutes later things got worse for Cincinnati when Yuya Kubo was sent off after bringing down Andres Herrera just outside the area.<\/p>\n

Dylan Chambost doubled the score in the 41st minute with Herrera and Jacen Russell-Rowe adding second-half goals to seal the win.<\/p>\n

Russell-Rowe came on in the 61st and promptly made his presence felt, finding Herrera with a cross to the center of the box for Herrera’s goal in the 65th and scoring in the 69th.<\/p>\n

With the series knotted at one game apiece, Cincinnati will host the deciding game three on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The winner of the series will face either Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami or Nashville in an Eastern Conference semi-final match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles FC, fueled by two goals from Denis Bouanga and one apiece by Son Heung-min and Jeremy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21106,132,134,133],"class_list":["post-32794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-afp","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32794","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=32794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}