{"id":133888,"date":"2025-08-10T08:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133888\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T08:28:20","slug":"denis-bouangas-late-goal-helps-lafc-salvage-draw-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133888\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Bouanga’s late goal helps LAFC salvage draw with Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Denis Bouanga<\/a> scored on a penalty kick in the 81st minute to rally LAFC<\/a> to a 2-2 draw with the Chicago Fire at SeatGeek Stadium on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Bouanga notched his 14th goal of the season for LAFC (10-6-7) after subbing in for Mathieu Choini\u00e8re in the 61st minute. The PK was awarded after Son Heung-min<\/a> \u2014 in his debut with the club \u2014 was fouled by defender Carlos Ter\u00e1n.<\/p>\n

Chicago (10-9-6) grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute on Ter\u00e1n\u2019s first goal this season. Philip Zinckernagel collected an assist on the score. Ter\u00e1n has one goal in five straight seasons.<\/p>\n

LAFC pulled even in the 19th minute on a goal by defender Ryan Hollingshead \u2014 his second. Nineteen-year-old midfielder David Mart\u00ednez picked up his first assist this season after notching two in 17 appearances last year.<\/p>\n

The Fire took a 2-1 lead in the 70th minute on a goal by Jonathan Bamba \u2014 his fourth in his first season in the league. Zinckernagel snagged another assist \u2014 his 13th \u2014 and Brian Guti\u00e9rrez earned his second.<\/p>\n

It was the first of three straight home matches in Bridgeview for the Fire whose home these days is Soldier Field. Chicago is 102-55-72 in regular-season play at SeatGeek.<\/p>\n

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Chris Brady saved four shots for Chicago.<\/p>\n

Hugo Lloris totaled one save for LAFC.<\/p>\n

Chicago began the day in possession of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference as it tries to make the postseason for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n

LAFC entered the day sixth in the Western Conference, but the club has at least two matches in hand on all five teams above it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRIDGEVIEW, Ill.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Denis Bouanga scored on a penalty kick in the 81st minute to rally LAFC to a 2-2…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[80985,38124,1582,276,11222,53525,2385,44308,2961,2220,80988,80989,5615,224,5337,53526,5950,80986,5613,80987],"class_list":{"0":"post-133888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-14th-goal","9":"tag-assist","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-chicago-fire","13":"tag-chris-brady","14":"tag-day","15":"tag-denis-bouanga","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-lafc","18":"tag-lafc-salvage-draw","19":"tag-late-goal","20":"tag-lead","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-philip-zinckernagel","24":"tag-season","25":"tag-seatgeek-stadium","26":"tag-second","27":"tag-teran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115003530327696905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133888","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=133888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}