{"id":617256,"date":"2026-02-26T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/617256\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:06:09","slug":"match-report-la-galaxy-advance-to-round-of-16-in-2026-concacaf-champions-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/617256\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: LA Galaxy Advance to Round of 16 in 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES (Feb.\u00a025, 2026) \u2013<\/strong> The LA Galaxy\u00a0advanced to\u00a0the Round of 16 in the 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup with\u00a0a 0-0 draw against\u00a0Sporting\u00a0San Miguelito\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0second leg of\u00a0Round\u00a0One\u00a0at Dignity\u00a0Health\u00a0Sports\u00a0Park in Carson,\u00a0Calif. Combined with the 1-1 scoreline from leg one in Panama, LA advanced\u00a0with an\u00a0overall\u00a0advantage\u00a0on away goals.\u00a0The Galaxy\u2019s next opponent will be\u00a0Jamaican\u00a0Premier League\u00a0side Mount Pleasant\u00a0FA, with the first meeting set for\u00a0Wednesday,\u00a0March 11 at home.\u00a0Ticket availability for the\u00a0Round of\u00a016 home match\u00a0versus Mount\u00a0Pleasant FA will be announced next week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Midfielder\u00a0<strong>Elijah\u00a0Wynder<\/strong>\u00a0made his 2026 debut as a second-half substitute in the match.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Forward\u00a0<strong>Gabriel Pec<\/strong>\u00a0had a goal disallowed in the 32nd minute for an offside in the buildup.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Matheus Nascimento<\/strong>\u00a0was issued a red card in the\u00a0third minute of added\u00a0time\u00a0for entering the field of play as a substitute\u00a0and\u00a0was\u00a0dismissed from the match. He will now miss the club\u2019s first match in the upcoming Round of 16.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The LA Galaxy became the fifth team to not allow a shot on target in a Concacaf Champions Cup match.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Galaxy defenders\u00a0<strong>Maya Yoshida<\/strong>\u00a0(106) and\u00a0<strong>Jakob Glesnes<\/strong>\u00a0(104) each completed 100+ passes against Sporting San Miguelito. It was just the second match in this season\u2019s edition of the\u00a0Concacaf Champions Cup\u00a0in\u00a0which two players from the same team reached that mark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The LA Galaxy completed 643 passes tonight against Sporting San Miguelito, the third-highest total in this edition of the Concacaf Champions Cup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The LA Galaxy\u00a0make\u00a0a quick return\u00a0to MLS Regular Season play at\u00a0Dignity Health Sports Park\u00a0on Saturday, Feb. 28\u00a0against Charlotte FC,\u00a0presented by\u00a0Maruchan\u00a0(7:30 p.m. PT, Apple TV).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Match:<\/strong>\u00a0LA Galaxy vs\u00a0Sporting San Miguelito\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>:\u00a0February 25, 2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong>: Dignity Health Sports Park; Carson,\u00a0California\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weather<\/strong>: Clear\u00a0and\u00a061\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lineups<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/><strong>LA Galaxy:<\/strong>\u00a0GK JT Marcinkowski; D John Nelson, D Maya Yoshida, D Jakob Glesnes, D Mauricio Cuevas; M Justin Haak\u00a0(Elijah Wynder,\u00a090\u2019), M Edwin Cerrillo, M Marco Reus\u00a0(Lucas Sanabria,\u00a086\u2019); F Joseph Paintsil, F Gabriel Pec, F Jo\u00e3o Klauss\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Substitutes\u00a0not used:\u00a0Brady Scott,\u00a0Novak\u00a0Mi\u0107ovi\u0107, Juli\u00e1n Aude,\u00a0Emiro\u00a0Garc\u00e9s,\u00a0Harbor\u00a0Miller, Isaiah Parente, Tucker Lepley, Ruben Ramos Jr., Matheus Nascimento\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sporting San Miguelito<\/strong>: GK Jose Calderon;\u00a0D\u00a0Jeslan\u00a0Caicedo, D\u00a0Marlon Avila, D Sergio Ramirez, D Omar Alba, D Harold Cummings; M Armando\u00a0Cooper\u00a0(Ramses De Leon, 88\u2019), M Angel Valencia\u00a0(Julio Betancourt\u00a075\u2019), M Hector Hurtado\u00a0(Angel Orelien\u00a088\u2019), M Rodrigo Tello; F Gustavo Herrera\u00a0(Angel James,\u00a045\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes\u00a0not used<strong\/>:\u00a0Kevin Mosquera, Jefferson Asprilla, Manuel Azcarate, Alexis Cede\u00f1o, Adrian Bethancourt, Joel Barria, Diogo Camargo, Mois\u00e9s Richards<\/p>\n<p>SSM:\u00a0Angel James (caution) 89\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LA:\u00a0Matheus\u00a0Nascimento\u00a0(dismissal)\u00a090+3\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SSM:\u00a0Sergio Ramirez\u00a0(caution)\u00a090+5\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Referees:\u00a0David Moran, Henri\u00a0Pupiro\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fourth Official:\u00a0Amairany Garcia\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>VAR:\u00a0Enrique Santander\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All statistics contained in this box score are unofficial\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>LA Galaxy Postgame\u00a0Top\u00a0Quotes<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>LA Galaxy Head Coach Greg Vanney<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the group\u2019s\u00a0180 minutes\u00a0against\u00a0Sporting San Miguelito:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividually they are\u00a0very good\u00a0defenders.\u00a0Even\u00a0in combinations\u00a0I thought their guys stayed close together\u00a0for the most part.\u00a0They were really committed to the defending aspect of it.\u00a0If we were truly tied and needed to win the\u00a0game,\u00a0I would have done things differently, too. You\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0need to expose yourself to go try to score goals, especially as the game progressed.\u00a0When\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0ahead and not giving\u00a0up\u00a0really much on the\u00a0defensive\u00a0side, I chose to keep it a little more stable and a little less exposed.\u00a0Could we have\u00a0maybe created\u00a0a few more chances? Maybe.\u00a0But\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a knockout situation and you have the advantage.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the availability of players and\u00a0team development in the next few weeks:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s\u00a0some healing, plus the guys who are getting a ton of minutes right now are going to need to\u00a0recover\u00a0from this week a little bit next week, but we will\u00a0certainly, as we get back on the field,\u00a0prioritize the things we can work on in one week to have ourselves as prepared\u00a0for the next. And the next one is 5 games in\u00a016 days. Four in ten to five in 16 \u2013\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0get a ton easier in that regard.\u00a0Hopefully\u00a0we\u2019ll\u00a0be a little healthier, and then we can look at how\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0going to approach it.\u00a0We\u2019re\u00a0going to take the experiences of this, use some video to learn, and do some things on the training field to take a step forward.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the team\u2019s stretch of games early in the season:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re a little in it, as I said, we played the 3 games in Coachella,\u00a0tried to divide\u00a0in\u00a0Coachella and\u00a0really\u00a0be\u00a0two teams that were trying to maximize\u00a0minutes.\u00a0We&#8217;re\u00a0trying to physically get ourselves ready for this week as much as anything so that we could keep guys as healthy as we could, and I would say we probably spent less time on the tactical stuff in the latter part of preseason just to try to get guys physically as ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (Feb.\u00a025, 2026) \u2013 The LA Galaxy\u00a0advanced to\u00a0the Round of 16 in the 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":617257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,32154,50,10426],"class_list":{"0":"post-617256","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-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-match-report","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-press-release"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116136377440808601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617256","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=617256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}