{"id":1032472,"date":"2026-08-30T06:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032472\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T06:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:20:12","slug":"chuckys-revenge-lozano-nets-first-la-galaxy-goal-vs-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1032472\/","title":{"rendered":"Chucky&#8217;s revenge: Lozano nets first LA Galaxy goal vs. San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lozano, who joined the Galaxy on loan after spending the opening months of the season on the sidelines with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-diego-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego FC<\/a>, made his second start for his new team at his old stomping grounds of Snapdragon Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His emotions were obvious as he scored to cut San Diego\u2019s lead to 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego&#8217;s flagship signing and first-ever Designated Player, Lozano was a key piece of the Chrome-and-Azul&#8217;s historic 2025 MLS expansion campaign, producing 12g\/11a between the regular season and Audi MLS Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>But the longtime Mexican international had spent most of this season on the sidelines after SDFC head coach Mikey Varas and sporting director Tyler Heaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/chucky-lozano-not-in-san-diego-fc-s-plans-for-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> in January that he wasn&#8217;t in the club\u2019s plans following disciplinary issues late last season.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/la-galaxy-acquire-chucky-lozano-from-san-diego-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">loaned<\/a> him out to their Western Conference rivals earlier this month. On Saturday, he exacted revenge with a quality finish into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>Lozano set up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/kyogo-furuhashi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ky\u014dgo Furuhashi<\/a>&#8216;s apparent equalizer six minutes after his strike, but the goal was called back following Video Review for a Lozano foul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite Lozano\u2019s goal, the Galaxy eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2026\/matches\/sdvsla-08-29-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fell 3-1<\/a> to San Diego. Amid a tight Western Conference playoff race, they will look to rebound next Saturday at home against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/new-england-revolution\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Revolution<\/a> (9:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/la-galaxy-vs-new-england-revolution\/umc.cse.72uv2plpufawoikcrv51rgysx?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.4000%2Ctvs.sbd.7000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lozano, who joined the Galaxy on loan after spending the opening months of the season on the sidelines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1032473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,412977,55902,70315,44504,3549,7264,412978,37638,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1032472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-did-you-see-it","tag-hirving-lozano","tag-la-galaxy","tag-match-reaction","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-sdvsla-08-29-2026","tag-sendtonews","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117183016428392187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}