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    LAFC plays to a 2-2 draw with San Diego FC
    • May 3, 2026

    SAN DIEGO — Making nine changes to the lineup that started against Toluca FC on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Football Club carried competing priorities into their MLS regular season game on the weekend.

    After losing both of their matches against San Diego FC in 2025, defeating their new rival to the south was top of mind. But so was resting the bulk of the players who would be counted on in the second leg of LAFC’s CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinal series with Toluca next week at 8,750 feet above sea level.

    Ultimately, LAFC (6-2-3, 21 points) battled until the 106th minute in front of an announced crowd of 28,459 at Snapdragon Stadium to salvage a 2-2 draw against an opponent that had lost five straight league matches coming into Saturday.

    In the 104th minute, LAFC defender Ryan Hollingshead leveled the match, completing a two-goal comeback that should make the bus ride back to Los Angeles brighter than it otherwise would have been.

    After missing Leg 1 against Toluca due to yellow-card accumulation, Denis Bouanga started and played 106 minutes. LAFC’s all-time leading scorer got his side back in the game in the 82nd minute, finding glory from a tight angle off Son Heung-min’s 15th assist in 16 appearances across all competitions in 2026.

    The shot was LAFC’s first on target in the match.

    SDFC (3-5-3, 12 points) snatched the lead seven minutes into the match when center forward Marcus Ingvarsten’s header from a corner kick was redirected past Hugo Lloris by LAFC defender Eddie Segura. Ingvarsten also doubled the lead in the 71st minute.

    Playing his 152nd regular season game for LAFC, tying Carlos Vela for the club record, Segura, like Bouanga, had been forced to sit out the first leg against Toluca due to yellow-card accumulation.

    Segura being more involved in more goal-scoring scenarios than Bouanga was indicative of LAFC’s trouble generating dangerous chances around the San Diego goal in the first 45 minutes.

    Opening in the attack alongside Bouanga, Nathan Ordaz and Jeremy Ebobisse did not link up in significant ways during the first half, prompting LAFC head coach Marc Dos Santos to bring on forward David Martínez for Ordaz as well as midfielder Mark Delgado, who replaced 17-year-old homegrown Jude Terry midway through the San Diego native’s second MLS start.

    Those changes brought LAFC into the match, yet they remained down a goal at the hour mark when Dos Santos called on Son to make a difference.

    More to come on this story.

    ​ Orange County Register 

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