August 5, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
LA Galaxy News Release
LOS ANGELES – Closing out the Leagues Cup 2024 Group Stage, the LA Galaxy played to a 2-2 draw against Club Deportivo Guadalajara in regulation, before earning a 5-4 penalty-kick shootout win in front of a sell-out crowd of 25,174 fans at Dignity Health Sports Park on Sunday night. Gabriel Pec and Joseph Paintsil each tallied a goal, while goalkeeper Novak Mićović, who was named the GEICO Man of the Match, made six saves and recorded the penalty-kick winning stop in the shootout victory over Chivas.
Leagues Cup 2024
With the penalty-kick shootout win against C.D. Guadalajara, the LA Galaxy finished top of Group West 2 with a 1-0-1 record (5 points, 4 GF, 3 GA) and advanced to the Round of 32 of Leagues Cup 2024 to square off against Seattle Sounders FC at Lumen Field on Thursday, Aug. 8 (Time TBD, Broadcast TBD). In four all-time Leagues Cup matches played, the LA Galaxy hold a 1-2-1 record (5 GF, 6 GA). Pec has tallied one goal and one assist in two Leagues Cup 2024 matches.
LA Galaxy Unbeaten at Dignity Health Sports Park
In 13 matches played at Dignity Health Sports Park across all competitions during the 2024 campaign, the LA Galaxy hold an unbeaten record of 9-0-4 (32 GF, 19 GA). In 13 matches played across all competitions at Dignity Health Sports Park during the 2024 campaign, Pec has tallied nine goals and eight assists, while Paintsil has totaled 12 goal contributions (6 goals, 6 assists) in 11 matches played at the venue this season.
Goal-Scoring Plays
GDL – Alan Mozo (Ricardo Marin), 8th minute: Ricardo Marin received a pass inside the penalty area and flicked the ball into the path of Alan Mozo, whose shot from the right side of the six-yard box found the far netting.
LA – Joseph Paintsil (Mauricio Cuevas), 11th minute: Riqui Puig played an incisive pass down the right side of the penalty area to Mauricio Cuevas, whose first-time pass across the face of goal was tapped in from close range by Joseph Paintsil.
LA – Gabriel Pec (Mark Delgado), 67th minute: Miki Yamane cut inside from the left flank and found Mark Delgado outside the top of the 18-yard box. Delgado passed the ball to Gabriel Pec, who took a touch and ripped his left-footed shot from the right side of the penalty area into the bottom left corner of the goal.
GDL – Cade Cowell (Mateo Chavez), 90+1st minute: Mateo Chavez’s in-swinging cross into the penalty box was headed into the top corner by Cade Cowell.
Postgame Notes
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