He LAFC suffered its first loss of the new MLS season on Saturday, 3-0 against Real Salt Lake. But it is fair to excuse the Los Angeles teamwho had to play the game under an impressive snow storm in Sandy, Utah.
The Colombian Andrés Gómez scored twice in the first half, taking advantage of the facilities of the Mexican full-back Omar Campos, who like his LAFC teammates looked very uncomfortable in the snow, and Chicho Arango completely finished the game before the break by scoring against his former teammates .
LAFC had started the campaign well by beating the Seattle Sounders under the Los Angeles sun. Things were totally different at the Real Salt Lake stadium, where The setbacks for the team led by Steve Cherundolo began when bad weather forced the start of the game to be delayed two hours.
Then, when the ball finally rolled, there was an interruption due to lightning in the region and the actions resumed up to an hour later.
“It was an absolute joke that we had to play today,” Cherundolo said dissatisfied.
Difficult first half for Mexican Omar Campos, from LAFC
And then came LAFC’s defensive debacle under impressive snowfall that painted the field completely white. At 18 minutes the first goal fell when Mexican Omar Campos lost his balance in a split ball with Andrés Gómez and he beat goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.
At 41 minutes, Campos did not jump to try to deflect a long serve and Diego Luna received, assisted Gómez and the Colombian made it 2-0 by shooting Lloris.
The 3-0 that defined the match came in injury time and was also scored by a Colombian, this time Chicho Arango, who before the match was honored for his 100 professional goals, 30 of which were scored for LAFC.
Arango finished off the red ball used on this occasion with a sweep after a great pass from the right for his 101st goal.
In the second half, due largely to the weather and the conditions of the field, there was no movement on the scoreboard. Real Salt Lake finished the game with one man less due to the expulsion of Paraguayan Braian Ojeda.
It was the first win for the Salt Lake City team after losing to Inter Miami in the opening game of MLS in 2024 and drawing in St. Louis.
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