LAFC came from behind twice to pick up a point in a 2-2 draw with St. Louis CITY SC at BMO Stadium on Sunday evening. Denis Bouanga scored both LAFC goals, giving him four in the last three games, helping the club extend its unbeaten streak to three games. With the draw, LAFC is now 4W-4L-2D on the season for 14 points.
Despite outshooting St. Louis 10-1 in the opening half, LAFC was unable to find a breakthrough, and less than 10 minutes into the second half they found themselves behind. St. Louis left back Jannes Horn hit an early cross in from the left that found Cedric Teuchert racing into the box. Teuchert took one touch before prodding the ball into the net from six yards out, giving the visitors a 1-0 lead.
LAFC assistant coach Ante Razov, acting as head coach for the club in place of Steve Cherundolo, who was serving a one-game red-card suspension, made his first changes in the 68th minute, bringing on Cengiz Ünder and Nathan Ordaz. Two minutes later, those two helped set up the LAFC equalizer. Ordaz collected the ball on the right wing and played a short pass to Timothy Tillman near the top of the box. Tillman then left the ball for Ünder, who hit a curling left-footed cross to the back post for Bouanga to tap in, tying the score at 1-1.
Three minutes later, LAFC had a chance to go in front, only for Bouanga to see his penalty kick saved by Ben Lundt in the St. Louis goal.
St. Louis was reduced to 10 men in the 83rd minute when Alfredo Morales was sent off after being shown a second yellow card, but it was the visitors who pulled back in front in the 89th minute. A scramble inside the penalty area led to a Nkosi Tafari goal-line clearance rebounding off the back of Nathan Ordaz and into the net, giving St. Louis a 2-1 advantage.
But that lead would be short-lived as, in the fifth minute of stoppage time, Bouanga raced onto an Ünder through ball down the left wing before cutting into the box past a pair of St. Louis defenders and firing a right-footed shot past Lundt, tying the score at 2-2 and giving LAFC its second consecutive draw.
LAFC will be back in action on Saturday, May 3, when the club hosts the Houston Dynamo at BMO Stadium. That game kicks off at 7:30 p.m. PT and is available on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, 710 AM ESPN, the ESPN LA app, and 980 AM La Mera Mera.
