EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS 4) \u2014 El Paso Locomotive FC has clinched a berth in the 2026 USL Championship Playoffs with four matches left to play in the regular season. <\/p>\n
El Paso currently sits in first place in the Western Conference with 47 points, four points ahead of second place New Mexico United. The Locos have been the hottest team in the USL and are unbeaten in their last nine matches. They are also the first team in the Western Conference to nail down a playoff spot. <\/p>\n
“The mentality right now is to approach every match as a playoff match,” Locos midfielder Gabi Torres said. “We need to treat them as a playoff match because we want to secure the top place in the west. Games here in El Paso with the fans are a huge advantage for us.” <\/p>\n
On Saturday, the Locos will play at third place Lexington SC. Lexington is also among the hottest teams in the league, winning three straight matches. <\/p>\n
“Lexington is a possession progression team and they have some good actions towards goal,” Locos head coach Junior Gonzalez said. “So, it is going to be who executes the game plan the best and who is sharpest on the day.” <\/p>\n
After the trip to Lexington, El Paso will close out the regular season with three home matches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS 4) \u2014 El Paso Locomotive FC has clinched a berth in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-453707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453707","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=453707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}