{"id":587318,"date":"2026-04-16T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:34:08","slug":"paulinho-leads-toluca-to-3-0-win-over-galaxy-to-advance-to-concacaf-champions-cup-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587318\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulinho leads Toluca to 3-0 win over Galaxy to advance to CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portuguese striker Joao Dias Fernandes Paulinho scored two goals in a six-minute span in the second half as Toluca FC cruised to a 3-0 victory on Wednesday over LA Galaxy to advance to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Gallardo opened the scoring in the 10th minute and Paulinho followed with goals in the 58th and 64th minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Toluca, which won back-to-back titles in Mexico, advanced to the semifinals for the sixth time and will play LAFC.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Paulinho, who was recently called up to play for Portugal in friendly matches against Mexico and the United States, scored five goals in the series, which finished 7-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portuguese striker Joao Dias Fernandes Paulinho scored two goals in a six-minute span in the second half as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[16953,403,99],"class_list":["post-587318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587318","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=587318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}