{"id":882892,"date":"2026-10-15T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882892\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:00:09","slug":"denis-bouanga-and-son-heung-min-propel-lafc-to-3-1-victory-over-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882892\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Bouanga and Son Heung-min propel LAFC to 3-1 victory over Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Bouanga and Son Heung-min both contributed to all three goals for Los Angeles FC in a 3-1 victory over Austin FC on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team found the net until <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2110579798527377417?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bouanga took a pass<\/a> from Son seven minutes into the second half and scored to give LAFC (12-9-9) the lead. <\/p>\n<p>Brandon V\u00e1zquez scored for the second time this season \u2014 using an assist from Myrto Uzuni to knot the score in the 66th minute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2110583807644488087?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bouanga answered<\/a> the following minute with his 17th netter off another assist from Son \u2014 his league-leading 15th of the season \u2014 and LAFC went back in front 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Bouanga returned the favor when he notched his eighth assist <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2110584382733873400?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on Son&#8217;s goal<\/a> \u2014 his sixth \u2014 in the 72nd minute for a two-score advantage. Bouanga&#8217;s assist was his eighth and Jacob Shaffelburg picked up his career-high fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Lloris totaled three saves for Los Angeles, now 2-2-3 since the start of September.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Stuver stopped 10 shots \u2014 one off his career high \u2014 for Austin (7-11-11), which has lost two straight following an eight-match unbeaten streak.<\/p>\n<p>LAFC improves to 9-3-3 at home, while Austin drops to 3-8-4 on the road.<\/p>\n<p>The two clubs played to a scoreless draw in Austin to close out March.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Austin: Hosts Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles: At New York City FC on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denis Bouanga and Son Heung-min both contributed to all three goals for Los Angeles FC in a 3-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[3031,16953,403,99],"class_list":["post-882892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-los-angeles","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882892","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=882892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}