{"id":128391,"date":"2025-08-08T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128391\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:43:10","slug":"galaxy-dominate-santos-laguna-advance-to-leagues-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128391\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy dominate Santos Laguna, advance to Leagues Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Galaxy<\/a> needed a regulation victory and win by at least two goals to qualify for the knockout-round quarterfinals of the Leagues Cup.<\/p>\n

Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

Joseph Paintsil<\/a> scored in the first minute and Matheus Nascimento<\/a> tallied in the 39th minute to spark a 4-0 victory against overmatched Santos Laguna of Liga MX on Thursday night at Dignity Healthy Sports Park.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy, which have endured a nightmarish season in MLS, played like a different team, setting the tempo early with Paintsil tucking in the ball at the right post thanks to an assist by Mauricio Cuevas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy struck again when a sliding Nascimento tapped in the ball past goalkeeper Carlos Acevedo<\/a> off a long cross from Cuevas to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n

In the 45th minute, Choco Lozano<\/a> was shown his second yellow card to leave Santos Laguna short-handed.<\/p>\n

Defender Maya Yoshida<\/a> then added a goal during injury time to give the Galaxy a 3-0 advantage at the half. Yoshida collected a rebound after a long shot by Paintsil and buried it.<\/p>\n

At the end of the first half, midfielder Ramiro Sordo was also shown a red card and Santos Laguna was left with nine players to open the second half.<\/p>\n

Substitute Lucas Sanabria<\/a> scored in the second half off a nice feed from Yoshida in the 74th minute for the Galaxy\u2019s final goal.<\/p>\n

The victory moved the Galaxy from the fifth seed among the MLS standings to the third seed, passing the Portland Timbers and No. 4 seed Orlando City.<\/p>\n

The Leagues Cup quarterfinals \u2014 comprised of four MLS teams and four Liga MX teams \u2014 will be held Aug. 19-20. The Galaxy will take on Pachuca in the quarterfinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Galaxy needed a regulation victory and win by at least two goals to qualify for the knockout-round…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[20698,1582,276,21804,42155,55674,78423,2961,78422,35667,224,5337,78426,78427,6656,78428,78424,78421,51379,78425],"class_list":{"0":"post-128391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ball","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-galaxy","12":"tag-goal","13":"tag-half","14":"tag-joseph-paintsil","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-leagues-cup-quarterfinal","17":"tag-liga-mx","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-maruicio-cuevas","21":"tag-matheus-nascimento","22":"tag-mls","23":"tag-nice-feed","24":"tag-regulation-victory","25":"tag-santos-laguna","26":"tag-second-half","27":"tag-yoshida"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114991792329170438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128391","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=128391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}