Whitecaps notch first highway win over LAFC with 3-2 victory

LOS ANGELES — Defender Ranko Veselinovic scored within the second minute, Ryan Gauld had a objective and two assists and the Vancouver Whitecaps by no means trailed in a 3-2 victory over Los Angeles FC on Saturday night time.

Vancouver (6-5-7) beat the defending champions on the highway for the primary time in its eighth try. The Whitecaps had misplaced three straight on the highway coming into the match and have been 0-8-7 of their final 15 away from residence.

LAFC (9-4-5) had received back-to-back matches getting into play after a 0-5-1 winless skid.

Gauld had a hand in Veselinovic’s first objective this season and the third of his profession. Gauld and Sergio Córdova arrange Brian White’s seventh objective of the marketing campaign to offer the Whitecaps a 2-0 lead within the twenty third minute.

Dénis Bouanga scored unassisted within the forty fifth minute to tug LAFC inside a objective at halftime. Bouanga has 11 targets this season, second within the league to the 13 of Nashville SC’s Hany Mukhtar.

Gauld picked up a objective for the fourth straight match when he scored unassisted within the 63rd minute for a 3-1 lead. That got here in helpful when LAFC’s Carlos Vela took a go from Mateusz Bogusz within the 68th minute and located the web for a sixth time this season. Gauld and Lucas Cavallini – final season – are the one Whitecaps to attain in 4 straight contests.

PHOTOS: Whitecaps notch first highway win over LAFC with 3-2 victory

LAFC was coming off a first-minute objective by Bogusz in a 1-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday. It was the primary time a membership received a 1-0 match on a first-minute objective since Allan Cruz did it for FC Cincinnati in a win over CF Montreal in 2019.

Gauld’s scoring streak comes after a 13-match scoreless run.