2-1<\/a>, plays at second-seeded Vancouver in the one-game Western Conference semifinals.<\/p>\nSon Heung-Min added a goal and an assist for No. 3 seed LAFC. Jeremy Ebobisse replaced Son in the 88th minute and capped the scoring in the third minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n
Son, on the counter-attack, hesitated to freeze defender Ilie S\u00e1nchez at the top of the area and then exploded toward the left end line and blasted a shot from the corner of the 6-yard box inside the back post to open the scoring in the 21st. About four minutes later, Son fed Bouanga for a finish \u2014 the 30-year-old\u2019s 100th goal across all competitions for LAFC \u2014 into a wide-open net to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
Bouanga cut inside to evade defender Brendan Hines-Ike \u2014 who fell to the ground \u2014 and then flicked a shot into the net from the left center of the area in the 44th minute.<\/p>\n
Bouanga is the only active player \u2014 and is one of just nine in history \u2014 with at least 10 career goals in the MLS Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n
LAFC\u2019s Hugo Lloris \u2014 who was second in MLS with 12 shutouts in the regular season \u2014 had three saves, including a diving stop on a penalty kick by Myrto Uzuni in the 39th minute after a hand ball in the area by Bouanga.<\/p>\n
Ryan Porteous was shown a yellow card for a foul in the area and Dani Pereira converted from the spot in the sixth minute of stoppage time to make it 3-1 at halftime.<\/p>\n
CJ Fodrey appeared to have cut sixth-seeded Austin\u2019s deficit to 3-2 in the 71st minute, but an offsides call nullified the would-be goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Denis Bouanga had two goals and an assist on Sunday night to help Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2660,731,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-33118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-los-angeles-football-club","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33118","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=33118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}