{"id":731606,"date":"2026-04-16T07:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731606\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:31:22","slug":"match-report-galaxys-ccc-run-ends-against-toluca-in-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731606\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: Galaxy\u2019s\u00a0CCC Run Ends Against Toluca in Quarterfinals\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES (April\u00a015, 2026) \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The LA Galaxy\u00a0saw its 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup\u00a0run end in the Quarterfinals\u00a0with a\u00a03\u20130\u00a0defeat to\u00a0Deportivo Toluca\u00a0FC\u00a0at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif.\u00a0An early goal and two second\u2011half strikes from Toluca decided the\u00a0fixture\u00a0on aggregate\u00a0through two legs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOL\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jes\u00fas Gallardo\u00a0(Franco Romero),\u00a010th minute:<\/strong>\u00a0Toluca worked the ball across the top of the box, finding Gallardo on the left.\u00a0The defender struck a left footed shot from the edge of the area into the top-left corner, giving the visitors a 1\u20130 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOL\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Paulinho Dias\u00a0(H\u00e9lio Nunes),\u00a058th minute:<\/strong>\u00a0Nunes\u00a0found\u00a0Paulinho making a\u00a0run\u00a0into\u00a0the\u00a0box,\u00a0where\u00a0the\u00a0forward\u00a0took\u00a0a\u00a0touch\u00a0to\u00a0control\u00a0before\u00a0finishing\u00a0into\u00a0the\u00a0bottom\u00a0right\u00a0corner\u00a0to\u00a0double\u00a0the\u00a0lead for Toluca.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOL \u2013 Paulinho Dias\u00a0(Nicol\u00e1s Castro), 64th minute:<\/strong>\u00a0Castro played a through ball into the right channel for Paulinho, who ran onto it and finished with a chip shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Captain\u00a0<strong>Maya Yoshida<\/strong>\u00a0earned his 100th appearance for the LA Galaxy across all competitions with his start tonight.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>LA Galaxy winger\u00a0<strong>Joseph Paintsil<\/strong>\u00a0made\u00a0his\u00a0return to\u00a0game action\u00a0as a second-half substitute in the match.\u00a0The Ghanaian international\u00a0missed the club\u2019s\u00a0previous\u00a0seven\u00a0matches\u00a0after suffering an injury against Colorado on March 7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The LA Galaxy\u00a0shift gears back to league play and\u00a0hit\u00a0the road for two 2026 MLS Regular Season contests. First up, the\u00a0G\u2019s\u00a0will visit FC Dallas\u00a0on Saturday,\u00a0April\u00a018\u00a0(5:30 p.m. PT, Apple TV) at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas. Four days later, the Galaxy\u00a0continue\u00a0their\u00a0trip to Ohio for an interconference battle against Columbus Crew on Wednesday, April 22 (4:30 p.m. PT, Apple TV)\u00a0at\u00a0ScottsMiracle-Gro Field.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Match:<\/strong>\u00a0LA Galaxy vs\u00a0Deportivo Toluca FC\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong>: Dignity Health Sports Park; Carson, California\u00a0<br \/><strong>Weather<\/strong>:\u00a0Sunny\u00a0and\u00a068\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p><strong>LA\u00a0Galaxy:<\/strong>\u00a0GK\u00a0JT Marcinkowski; D\u00a0Juli\u00e1n\u00a0Aude, D\u00a0Emiro\u00a0Garc\u00e9s\u00a0(Elijah Wynder,\u00a046\u2019), D\u00a0Maya Yoshida, D Miki Yamane; M Edwin\u00a0Cerrillo\u00a0(Lucas Sanabria, 68\u2019),\u00a0M Justin Haak,\u00a0M Marco\u00a0Reus\u00a0(Isaiah Parente,\u00a073\u2019);\u00a0F\u00a0Erik\u00a0Thommy\u00a0(Joseph Paintsil, 67\u2019),\u00a0F Gabriel Pec, F Jo\u00e3o\u00a0Klauss\u00a0(Ruben Ramos Jr., 68\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Substitutes not used:\u00a0Brady Scott,\u00a0Novak\u00a0Mi\u0107ovi\u0107,\u00a0John Nelson, Mauricio Cuevas, Chris\u00a0Rindov, Tucker Lepley, Harbor Miller\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toluca<\/strong>: GK\u00a0Luis\u00a0Garcia; D Diego Barbosa, D Bruno\u00a0Mendez, D Everardo\u00a0Lopez, D\u00a0Simon\u00a0Santiago; M\u00a0Nicol\u00e1s Castro\u00a0(Franco Rossi, 82\u2019), M Jes\u00fas Angulo\u00a0(Marcel Ruiz, 73\u2019), M Jes\u00fas\u00a0Gallardo;\u00a0F Franco Romero,\u00a0F\u00a0Helio Nunes\u00a0(Pavel Perez, 63\u2019),\u00a0F\u00a0Paulinho\u00a0Dias\u00a0(Jorge Diaz,\u00a073\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes\u00a0not\u00a0used<strong\/>:\u00a0Hugo\u00a0Gonzalez, Antonio Brise\u00f1o,\u00a0Sebasti\u00e1n C\u00f3rdova,\u00a0Alexis Vega, Mauricio Isais, Oswaldo Virgen, Fernando Arce,\u00a0Victor Arteaga<\/p>\n<p>TOL:\u00a0Diego Barbosa\u00a0(caution)\u00a054\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LA:\u00a0Justin Haak\u00a0(caution)\u00a082\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Referee:\u00a0Mario Escobar\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Referees:\u00a0Luis Ventura, Humberto Panjoj\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fourth Official:\u00a0Bryan Lopez\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All statistics contained in this box score are unofficial\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>LA Galaxy Postgame Top Quotes<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>LA Galaxy Head Coach Greg Vanney<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0where the game got away from the team:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Early in the first half both teams were in the same shape: 3-4-3 and 3-4-3&#8230; I felt like we were having\u00a0a hard time\u00a0within the duels [and]\u00a0establishing\u00a0some possession. Being able to play clean balls forward so we could get out of our half, being able to get balls behind that could let us shift field position.\u00a0Feel\u00a0like we lost a lot of\u00a0duels,\u00a0lost a lot of second balls for the night.\u00a0We&#8217;re\u00a0battling out a bit and then we give up an early goal.\u00a0I think we\u00a0had the chance to block it. I think we should be able to block it if we go at it\u00a0brave\u00a0and we get our bodies between the ball and the goal. In the first half we were adjusting to try to find a structure [to] offset their\u00a0man-to-man\u00a0press and find some windows of time. It took us\u00a0probably 20\u00a0minutes to get\u00a0established. We tried to overload the midfield a bit differently and were able to build some attacks. I think [the opponent] managed the duels situation better than us. They were quicker than us to second balls. We were trying to get ourselves back into the\u00a0tie, and\u00a0were never able to get in front of the\u00a0game\u00a0I would say.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0how worrisome tonight\u2019s loss\u00a0is moving forward:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s\u00a0frustrating, I\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0think\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0worrisome.\u00a0I think these games\u00a0are\u00a0very different\u00a0than\u00a0MLS games.\u00a0I think the opposition\u00a0is\u00a0very\u00a0different\u00a0than\u00a0MLS opposition. In\u00a0all of\u00a0these games\u00a0there&#8217;s\u00a0takeaways for me\u00a0in\u00a0certain\u00a0situations,\u00a0it became a game of a lot of duels that we needed to win.\u00a0There&#8217;s\u00a0things that I put in the bank and think about as we approach games that might look like duels, and guys who are handling the duels better than other guys, things like that.\u00a0For\u00a0me\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0not super\u00a0worrisome, I always\u00a0knew that this [competition] against Toluca was going to be a battle,\u00a0they&#8217;re\u00a0a very good\u00a0team and it was going to be about how we could find\u00a0our momentum and our moments inside of these games where we can try to make a difference and obviously score more goals than them. This was going to be a\u00a0challenge\u00a0and we\u00a0weren&#8217;t\u00a0able to do it. We still have a\u00a0really busy\u00a0schedule right in front of us and\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0on the\u00a0road\u00a0which is always going to be a challenge, but I think the group will show resiliency.\u00a0All of\u00a0our attention now can go to\u00a0MLS\u00a0and\u00a0I think\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0where\u00a0were going to\u00a0be,\u00a0focusing on MLS. We have a tough\u00a0road trip\u00a0to Dallas and Columbus\u00a0as the first way to get this thing started.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the\u00a0halftime subs and\u00a0tactical shift at halftime: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI brought Justin [Haak] back, was trying to put our two\u00a0guys\u00a0most comfortable on the\u00a0ball\u00a0in the\u00a0build, trying to deal with their pressure, bring in another midfielder who could take a little\u00a0bit\u00a0higher. We went to\u00a0more of a\u00a04-3-3.\u00a0We had to score three goals in 45 minutes, so we started\u00a0to push numbers a little bit higher. I\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0feel like we had\u00a0enough time\u00a0to get our\u00a0full backs\u00a0from lower positions to higher positions in the game.\u00a0We tried to shift our numbers higher\u00a0a little bit more.\u00a0That\u00a0opens up\u00a0some space between the lines sometimes if things breakdown, but\u00a0we needed to score three in 45 minutes, so you\u00a0have got\u00a0to\u00a0do\u00a0something that is\u00a0somewhat\u00a0attacking\u00a0in that situation.\u00a0You\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0stay with guys behind the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (April\u00a015, 2026) \u2013\u00a0The LA Galaxy\u00a0saw its 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup\u00a0run end in the Quarterfinals\u00a0with a\u00a03\u20130\u00a0defeat to\u00a0Deportivo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":731607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,32154],"class_list":{"0":"post-731606","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116413221257690450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731606","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=731606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}