Nathan Ordaz and Jeremy Ebobisse scored goals to conduct Los Angeles FC to a solid 2-0 victory against Houston Dynamo visiting Saturday evening.
Denis Bouanga established the second goal of his very active evening for Los Angeles FC (5-4-2, 17 points), which extended his undefeated MLS sequence (2-0-2).
Hugo Lloris won his fourth bleaching of the season during a quiet outing in which Houston did not put a single blow on the target. The Dynamo (2-5-4, 10 points) took four shots in total while seeing a sequence of four games (2-0-2) undefeated.
Houston is without victory (0-2-3) in five games on the road this season.
The unilateral match surely felt good for Lafc, which had been dominated during the recent MLS regular season game against Houston. Lafc was 0-4-1 in the last five meetings and ahead of 8-0.
Los Angeles placed 18 shots with 10 on the target during the match on Saturday.
Jonathan Bond made eight stops for Dynamo.
Bond kept the dynamo in the match with seven stops in the first half. He thwarted Bouanga in the third minute of the time to stop at first half with a stellar stop on the explosion of the left foot of the LAFC star.
Bouanga took seven shots in the first half with four of them on Target. He did not take a single blow in the second half.
Houston took two shots in the first half and two in the second.
Lafc scored in the 10th minute and the sequence started with Sergi Palencia putting a blow to the goal. Ordaz obtained the rebound and hit it in the net with its left foot.
The LAFC dominated the game but would not get another count before the 79th minute. Timothy Tillman sent a pass of his own end to free Bouanga for a break of 2 against 2 with Ebobisse.
Bouanga finally slipped a pass to his right to his teammate. Although the pass was slightly behind him, Ebobisse stabilized and pierced a left foot in front of Bond to do it 2-0.
– field level media