{"id":497316,"date":"2026-03-01T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:28:08","slug":"joao-klauss-and-lucas-sanabria-lead-galaxy-to-win-over-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497316\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo\u00e3o Klauss and Lucas Sanabria lead Galaxy to win over Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/joao-klauss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jo\u00e3o Klauss<\/a> scored two goals two minutes apart in the first 13 minutes \u2014 after a score by <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/lucas-sanabria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lucas Sanabria<\/a> \u2014 and the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/soccer\/galaxy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy<\/a> cruised to a 3-0 victory over Charlotte FC on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Sanabria gave the Galaxy (1-0-1) the lead in the eighth minute with an unassisted goal. Sanabria had two goals in 21 appearances as a rookie last season.<\/p>\n<p>Klauss took a pass from Gabriel Pec and scored in the 11th minute, then scored unassisted two minutes later for a three-goal lead. Pec\u2019s first assist this season gives him 24 through his first 64 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Klauss scored the lone goal in a 1-1 season-opening draw with visiting New York City FC. He came over in a cash-for-player trade with St. Louis City in the hopes he\u2019d help ease the loss of superstar Riqui Puig for a second straight season after complications from a torn anterior cruciate ligament. So far, so good for the 29-year-old forward with 28 goals in 81 career appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Novak Micovic needed to make just one save to notch his fourth clean sheet in his 26th career start for the Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>           <img id=\"yt-img-hk7_1qIjDR8\" class=\"absolute\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hqdefault.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                 <\/p>\n<p>Kristijan Kahlina made eight saves for Charlotte (0-1-1), which was coming off a 1-1 draw at St. Louis City on a goal by Pep Biel \u2014 one of 11 players in the league with double-digit goals and assists last season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for the Galaxy: at Colorado Rapids on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jo\u00e3o Klauss scored two goals two minutes apart in the first 13 minutes \u2014 after a score by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[29606,15755,227245,9004,40666,227244,4233,227243,38913,227247,51611,46959,227248,403,99,227246,227249],"class_list":["post-497316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-appearance","tag-charlotte","tag-gabriel-pec","tag-galaxy","tag-goal","tag-joao-klauss","tag-lead","tag-lucas-sanabria","tag-minute","tag-rookie-last-season","tag-saturday-night","tag-save","tag-season-opening-draw","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-city","tag-unassisted-goal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}