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The Portuguese striker\u2019s first of the night, capped off another exemplary Toluca counterattack goal with an inch-perfect ball by Helinho, setting up the 2-0.<\/p>\n
His second of the night, a superb chip to finish off a Nicol\u00e1s Castro pass, effectively killed the tie and took any fight left out of the Galaxy by the 64th minute with a 3-0 scoreline.<\/p>\n
A chorus of Oles\u00a0from the Toluca fans in the last 20 minutes was followed by more remonstrating from the home crowd at full-time. The home support met the Galaxy with fervent shouts of \u201cWe want better\u201d for the second straight game, intermixed with calls of \u201cVanney out.\u201d<\/p>\n
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One of the only bright spots on an evening where they lost 3-0 at home to Toluca, LA Galaxy Winger Joseph Paintsil made his return to the field on Wednesday, April 14, 2026.<\/p>\n
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One of the only bright spots on an evening where they lost 3-0 at home to Toluca, LA Galaxy Winger Joseph Paintsil made his return to the field on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.<\/p>\n
“Look, nobody, nobody ever likes to hear that. I mean, it’s not what we do it for,” Vanney said in response to the chants about his future.<\/p>\n
“But I think what it did to this group is it galvanizes the locker room a little bit more. It’s like, okay, we’ve got to, it’s us. We got to answer the bell here, and we’ve got to respond.”<\/p>\n
The only silver lining around elimination from the Concacaf Champions Cup is that the Galaxy can now focus squarely on MLS play. They’ll look to follow up a positive performance and 2-1 away win at Austin on matchday 7 with another victory in a second successive Texas tussle with FC Dallas.<\/p>\n
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It’ll be a tall order, as they haven’t won in Dallas since August 15, 2015.<\/p>\n
A visibly frustrated Maya Yoshida was unequivocal when asked if it was good that the team could focus solely on league play.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether we like it or not,\u201d the Galaxy captain said flatly. \u201cWe have to make it good, we have no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Galaxy will see just how good they can get on Saturday against Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles, Calif. — The LA Galaxy were overcome by a scarlet wave, both in the stands and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[225995,15617,252367,256869,256868,252448,75136,252446,403,99,215137,252366],"class_list":{"0":"post-587259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-concacaf-champions-cup","9":"tag-fc-dallas","10":"tag-greg-vanney","11":"tag-helinho","12":"tag-joseph-paintsil","13":"tag-jt-marcinkowski","14":"tag-la-galaxy","15":"tag-maya-yoshida","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-the-galaxy","19":"tag-toluca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587259","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=587259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}