{"id":190292,"date":"2025-08-31T23:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190292\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:52:18","slug":"la-galaxy-secure-concacaf-champions-cup-berth-over-orlando-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190292\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Galaxy secure Concacaf Champions Cup berth over Orlando City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 MLS Cup champions have struggled all year, but goals from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/marco-reus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marco Reus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/joseph-paintsil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joseph Paintsil<\/a> ensured they won the high-stakes clash and have a measure of pride \u2013 wherever they finish in the 2025 regular-season table.<\/p>\n<p>Reus gave LA a positive start at Dignity Health Sports Park, sweeping home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/gabriel-pec\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gabriel Pec<\/a>&#8216;s set-up feed in the 9th minute after a ruthless counter-attack.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando leveled at 1-1 in the 60th minute when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/martin-ojeda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mart\u00edn Ojeda<\/a> volleyed home a cushioned pass from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/luis-muriel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luis Muriel<\/a>. The Lions nearly equalized on two prior occasions, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/adrian-marin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adri\u00e1n Mar\u00edn<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/eduard-atuesta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eduard Atuesta<\/a> striking the woodwork for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy quickly responded, though, as Paintsil unleashed a long-range shot in the 67th minute past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/pedro-gallese\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pedro Gallese<\/a>. The Ghanaian international&#8217;s effort stood as the game-winner, capping a successful Leagues Cup run for LA.<\/p>\n<p>\n      Goals<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9&#8242; &#8211; LA &#8211; Marco Reus | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/video\/#goal-m-reus-vs-orl-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH<\/a><\/li>\n<li>60&#8242; &#8211; ORL &#8211; Mart\u00edn Ojeda | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/video\/#goal-m-ojeda-vs-la-60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH<\/a><\/li>\n<li>67&#8242; &#8211; LA &#8211; Joseph Paintsil | <a href=\"http:\/\/mlssoccer.com\/video\/goal-j-paintsil-vs-orl-67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2024 MLS Cup champions have struggled all year, but goals from Marco Reus and Joseph Paintsil ensured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,70315,102842,61117,224,5337,44504,6073,37638],"class_list":{"0":"post-190292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-galaxy","12":"tag-lavsorl-08-31-2025","13":"tag-leagues-cup","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-match-reaction","17":"tag-orlando-city-sc","18":"tag-sendtonews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115126072204166736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190292","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=190292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}