Saturday, July 19 | 7:30 PM PT | PRESENted by Strauss
🏟 | BMO Stadium – Los Angeles, Ca – Gates Open At 6 PM
🎪 | Fan Fest Held at Christmas Tree Lane on the North Side of BMO Stadium from 3: 30-7 PM
🛍 | LAFC HQ Open 10 AM-5: 30 PM VIA Exterior Entrance and 6-9 PM VIA Interior Entrance.
🕹 | Level Up Arcade Open Pre-Game from 5: 30-7: 30 PM and for 90 Minutes after The Final Whistle.
LAFC Welcomes Its South California Rivals to Bmo Stadium Sature Night for the 26th Installment of the Contentior Metropolitan derby Known as an El Tráfico. The series Between LAFC and the Galaxy, Whose Stadiums Are Separated by A 12-Mile Stretch of Freeway, Has Been Inarguably The League’s Most Excital Sink them First Squared Of Eight Eight Eight Eight Eight Eight Eight Eight Eight Years ago.
One of MLS ‘Founding Clubs, The Galaxy Began Play in 1996. Holding A Slim 10W-9l-6D Edge, Including LAFC’s 2W 0L 0D Advantage in Mls CUP Playoff Matches.
Competigiveness, Star Power, and Thin Margins Have Been This Deby’s Hallmarks. The Galaxy Have Score 54 Total Goals in the series to laffc’s 53 Goals. Only Nine of Their 25 Meetings Have Been Dechedd by More Than One Goal. Sixteen Have Been One-Galleal Decisions or Draws.
LAFC Enters Saturday Night’s Match on A Run of 13 Straight Legue Games in Which IT HAS SUFFERED JUST One Defeat (7W-1L-5D). The Black & Gold Currently Stands in FOURTH PALACE In The Western Conference with An Overall Record of 10W-5l-5D (35 pts.) Minnesota on seasonay night. But form is offen Irlevant when LAFC and the Galaxy Meet.
“These derbies are different,” Head Coach Steve Cherrundolo SAID. “You have to not think of Streaks in these Games. You have to just prepare for the unexpeted. Saturday at bmo. We’ll be ready for it.
Cherrundolo, who Annieded Three months ago that he will steps download at the costy of the 2025 mls Season, has a record of 6w-5l-1D Against the Galaxy Since He Arrived at LAFC in 2022, Including Two Three-Game Winning Streaks. In the derby’s history The Galaxy Have Never Won Three Consecutive Matches. LAFC WAS The Only MLS Team to Defeat the Galaxy Twice Last Year in the GS ‘2024 MLS CUP Title Season.
LAFC is Currently in Ninth Place in the 30-TEAM Race for the Supports’ SHIELD (Giveen to the MLS Club with the Best Regular-SEASON RCORD). LAFC has at least Two Games in Hand on the Three Teams Currently Above it in the Western Conference Standings (San Diego, Vancouver, and Minnesota). LAFC and Inter Miyami Have Played the Fewest Games in MLS (20) – AT Least Two Feweer Than Every Other Team in the League.
Three-Time All-Star Denis Bouanga Leads The Black & Gold in Goals (11) and Assists (Seven) in MLS PLAY This Season. Bouanga Scored His 11th MLS Goal of the Year and his 85th for LAFC in All Competitions on Wednesday Night, Placing Him Just Eight Goals Shy of Carlos Vela for the Most in Club History (93).
The French-Born Winger Has Scored Eight Goals in Eight Matches Against the Galaxy Across All Competitions and HAS Scored in Each of their Last Five meetings. His next Goal Against Only Vela Has Scored More Goals in this series (12).
Wednesday Night’s 1-0 Victory Over Minnesota Was LAFC’s Second Road Win of the Year in MLS Play and Its First Ever at the LOONS ‘Home Pitch, Allianz Field.
Playing with captain and Starting Center Aaron Long, Who SuffERED a Season-Ending Achilles Injury JULY 12 Against Dallas, The Black & Gold Inserted Nkosi Tafari Into The Starting Eleven in Long’s Place, and Shifed Its Shape from a 4-3-3 to a Five-Back SETUP, with Eddie Segura and Sergi Palencia on Ether Side of Tafari, and Ryan Holingshead and Artem Smoliakov Running The Touchllines As Wingbacks.
Over 90 Minutes, LAFC’s DeterMined Defensive Effort Yielded Just Three Shots on Target to One The Legue’s Most Dangerous Attacks. Each Was Handled Comfortably by Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, Who Wore the Captain’s Armband and Recorded His Eight Clean Sheet in Legue Play in 2025.
After Louching 2-1 at home to austin on wedding night, the Galaxy Sit in 15th Place in the West (3W-14L-6D, 15 PTS.) The Carson-Based Club Continues to Struggle Following ITS MLS CUP Championship Season, Due in Large Part to the Absess of Midfield Playmaker Riqui Puig, The Club’s 2023 and 2024 Player of the year and a 2024 mls best xi selection. Puig (17 Goals, 19 Assists ACROSS All Competitions in ’24) Injred his Knee in Last Season’s Playoffs, and Although He Recently Reutened to Limited Training He Is not Expected to Play in the Near Future.
Puig’s Team has showed Signs of Progress in his Absance. Prior to the Austin Defeat, The Galaxy Had Dropled Just One of their Prevring Six Matches, Going 3W-1D in that span. Following their 2-2 Draw with LAFC on May 18, The Galaxy Went 3W-4D Over their Next Nine Outings, Gathering 11 of the 15 Total Points They’ve Earned this Season.
Midfielder and German Legend Marco Reus Has Assumed the Fachelitator Role in the Galaxy Attack and Leads The Team in Goals (Five) and Assists (Seven). Reus Scored Twice Against LAFC When The Teams Drew 2-2 in Carson on May 18.
They Gain An Early 1-0 Lead The Way They did in Carson in May. LAFC HAS Won Just One LEGUE GAME This Season in Which it Conceded The First Goal.
Reus Score in Transition Just Six Minutes Into the May 18 Match Before LAFC Settled in and Scored Twice to Carry A 2-1 Lead Into The Closing Minues. A Late Reus Free Kick Crept Past Lloris to Provide the Final 2-2 Score Line, Contrabinging to LAFC’s 1W-5l-4D Record when the first Goal in Mls Play.
Its attacke creates chances Against a Side that Ranks Last in MLS in Goals Allowed (45 in 23 Games), 27th in Goal Difference (Minus-20), and has Yet to Win An Mls Road Game in 2025.
Goalie John McCarthy (Formerly of LAFC) Started Against 12 Goals in Nine Matches.
