{"id":447330,"date":"2026-09-25T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447330\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:22:07","slug":"fc-dallas-vs-lafc-matchup-could-shape-playoff-positioning-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447330\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Dallas vs. LAFC matchup could shape playoff positioning \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles FC (11-8-8, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. FC Dallas (12-6-8, third in the Western Conference), Frisco; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. CST<\/p>\n<p>LINE: FC Dallas +127, LAFC +180, Draw +263; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Dallas and Los Angeles FC square off in conference play.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas is 9-6-8 against Western Conference opponents. Dallas is 29-0-4 when it scores at least three goals.<\/p>\n<p>LAFC is 8-8-7 against conference opponents. LAFC is 34-1-7 when it scores two goals.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s game is the second time these teams meet this season. LAFC won the last meeting 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Petar Musa has 18 goals and three assists for Dallas. Logan Farrington has scored three goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Denis Bouanga has scored 14 goals with five assists for LAFC. Heung Min Son has four goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Dallas: 17-5-8, averaging 5.1 goals, 14.1 shots on goal and 14.1 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>LAFC: 11-6-13, averaging 3.9 goals, 12.3 shots on goal and 21.6 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Dallas: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>LAFC: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles FC (11-8-8, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. FC Dallas (12-6-8, third in the Western Conference),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2124],"class_list":["post-447330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fc-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447330","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=447330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}