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SEATTLE – Simply put, the Seattle Sounders were not gracious hosts Saturday to the Los Angeles Football Club.
The Sounders pulled away for a 5-2 victory over LAFC at Lumen Field and hand the visitors their first road loss of the season in Major League Soccer play.
Seattle (1-1-1) opened the scoring in the 11th minute when Kalani Kossa-Rienzi received a ball over the top of the Black & Gold’s defense before he buried a shot in the net with his left foot for a 1-0 lead.
LAFC’s Homegrown player Nathan Ordaz leveled the match in the 37th minute off a corner from Artem Smoliakov. After a frantic scramble in front of the goal with multiple chances to score, Ordaz was able to equalize at 1-1.
The score remained 1-1 into the halftime break, but Seattle took a 2-1 lead in the 57th minute when a short Seattle corner led to a shot from outside the box by Paul Rothrock. The Sounders claimed another goal in the 77th minute when Jordan Morris received a pass inside the box and placed the ball in the far corner. The fourth from the Sounders came in the 84th minute with a shot from Cristian Roldan right outside the box to cap a 3-0 run and built a 4-1 advantage.
David Martínez answered shortly after with a solo goal for LAFC (2-1-0) in extra time (90+2) to make the score 4-2. After winning the ball at midfield, Martínez carried it into the Sounders’ box and took on five defenders before finding the back of the net from close range with his left foot, claiming his first MLS goal of the season.
Seattle rounded out the scoring two minutes later (90+4), when Albert Rusnák scored to give the Sounders the 5-2 victory.
LAFC is back in action on Tuesday, March 11, when the club heads to Ohio to take on the Columbus Crew in the second leg of the club’s Concacaf Champions Cup Round of 16 series. That match kicks off at 5:30 p.m. PT (8:30 ET) and will be broadcast on FS2.ons, I am confident we are poised to continue making a significant impact in women's sports and our community.”
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The Los Angeles Football Club has difficulties getting around the Seattle Sounders in a 5-2 defeat.
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