the venezuelan Joseph Martinezwith a brace, became a player of MLS who reached 100 points the fastest this Saturday bad news for Los Angeles teams, since LAFC lost his first game of the year and the Galaxy racked up another tough loss in what has been a very disappointing season so far.
Martínez scored two goals against his former teammate, Atlanta United’s Argentine Thiago Almada, in Inter Miami’s 2–1 victory. The Venezuelan striker entered the game in the second half, scoring a penalty in the 59th minute and ending the local victory in the 75th minute. Argentine Franco Negri was sent off for a red card at Inter Miami while Andrew Gutman, who had a header and minutes. 92 , accomplished the goal of honor for an Atlanta that had three consecutive losses (including its surprising elimination from the Cup against the mediocre Memphis 901).
For its part, Mexican Carlos Vela’s LAFC registered its first loss of the year in MLS by falling 2-1 against the San Jose Earthquakes. Argentine Cristian Espinoza, who was voted the best player in MLS in April, scored two goals (one of them a penalty) for San José while Denis Bouanga scored for the Angelenos. With this double, Espinoza is the leading scorer in MLS at the moment with 8 goals, the same as the aforementioned Bouanga (LAFC) and Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders).
For their part, the Galaxy extended their very serious crisis of results by losing 1-3 against the Colorado Rapids and, after playing 10 games, they achieved only one victory. To add more drama to the team of Mexican Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández and former Barça player Riqui Puig, one of the three Rapids goals was signed by a former Galaxy player like Kevin Cabral. The Galaxy are penultimate in the West with just 6 points out of a possible 30.
One of the big stars of the day was Hany Mukhtar, last year’s MLS MVP and who shined with a hat-trick in Nashville’s 3-0 win over the Chicago Fire. On the other hand, one of the most colorful matches on Saturday was won by Charlotte 3-2 against New York City with Brazilian Gabriel Pereira and Uruguayan Santiago Rodríguez scoring from a penalty. The victory of the Vancouver Whitecaps against Minnesota United also ended with 3-2. Also, Cincinnati beat DC United 2-1 in a victory with an Argentine flavor as Luciano Acosta (with an Olympic goal against a weak visiting defense) and Álvaro Barreal scored.
For the rest of Saturday, the New England Revolution beat Toronto 0-2, the Philadelphia Union beat the New York Red Bulls 0-1, Montreal beat Orlando City 2-0 (Honduran Romell Quioto got one of the goals ), the Houston Dynamo drew at home and scoreless against Real Salt Lake, and Austin salvaged a 2-2 injury-time tie against the Portland Timbers (Argentine Claudio Bravo scored for the locals) .
Finally, the match between FC Dallas and St. Louis was suspended in the second half due to bad weather when the score was 0-0.
Source: La Verdad
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