{"id":3046,"date":"2026-08-23T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:02:41","slug":"denis-bouangas-late-goal-helps-lafc-salvage-draw-with-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"Denis Bouanga&#8217;s late goal helps LAFC salvage draw with Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>Denis Bouanga scored late in the second half and LAFC escaped with a 1-1 draw after trailing the Portland Timbers for 75 minutes at BMO Stadium on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>David Da Costa took a pass from Kristoffer Velde in the fourth minute and scored his third goal this season to give Portland a 1-0 lead that it carried into the 79th minute.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Bouanga used assists from Jude Terry and Aaron Long to knot the score with his 11th goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Portland forward Vincent Janssen, who entered in the 69th minute, picked up yellow cards in the 89th and third minute of stoppage time to leave the Timbers down a man.<\/p>\n<p>But, James Pantemis finished off a 10-save night for Portland (8-9-4) \u2014 including his final one on a shot by Bouanga in the final minute of stoppage time \u2014 to keep it tied.<\/p>\n<p>Pantemis had five saves in the first half with four of them coming in the first 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Lloris turned away one shot for LAFC (10-7-5), which was coming off back-to-back 1-0 losses.<\/p>\n<p>Portland is 4-1-2 in its last seven matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Timbers beat LAFC on their last trip to BMO Stadium and lead the all-time series 7-6-8.<\/p>\n<p><b>Up next for LAFC:<\/b> at D.C. United on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Bouanga scored late in the second half and LAFC escaped with a 1-1 draw after trailing the Portland Timbers for 75 minutes at BMO Stadium on Saturday night. David Da Costa took a pass from Kristoffer Velde in the fourth minute and scored his third goal this season to give Portland a 1-0 lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4964,4963,707,1685,4965,4966,1025,4968,4967],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-bouangas","tag-denis","tag-draw","tag-goal","tag-helps","tag-lafc","tag-late","tag-portland","tag-salvage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}