3-0: Los Angeles FC, with Bale in attendance, reach their first MLS final

Los Angeles FC (LAFC), with Giorgio Chiellini Y Carlos candle in his eleven and the former madridista Gareth Bale in the substitution without playing a single minute, will play next Saturday his first final of the MLS Cup after defeating by 3-0 this Sunday with enormous authority to Austin at the end of the Western Conference.

Founded in 2018 with the Mexican Carlos candleformerly of Real Sociedad, as an emblem, LAFC, which was the best team of the regular season, will play the game for the title in their field against the winner of the Eastern final, who play this next morning on Philadelphia Union and the New York City. The Colombian Christian Arangothe Argentinian Maxi Urruti own door and the Ghanaian Kwadwo Opoku They signed the goals of the win.

The Angelenos dominated the duel with a firm hand and made perfect use of Argentine Sebastián Driussi, who this year had scored 22 points for the Austin. The Texan team had been ‘the black beast’ of the LAFCwhom he beat in both games of the regular phase, but this Sunday he gave a very poor image.

Instead, the team led by Steve Cherundolo, which put Italian Giorgio Chiellini, formerly of the Juventusand in which one more day the Welshman was left without playing Gareth Baleshot 22 times (10 on goal) and took 11 corners (two of his goals came from corner kicks).

Withdrawn in his field, the Austin yielded the initiative to the LAFCwho gave the first warnings -without much danger- with a loose shot from Arango and a deflected shot from Acosta after a bad start from Stuver.

With a compact block defense that denied the ball to Sánchez, the Angelenos’ midfield compass, the Austin He pushed LAFC to enter on the wings or with a more direct game.

There they found their ideal setting, a hyperactive palaces and the speed of Bouangawho, in a counterattack, entered like a knife to the area but neither he nor Arango in the rebound they were able to open the scoring.

Even clearer was the occasion in the 17th minute of Cifuentes, who surprised by dropping from the second line and whose dry shot ended up hitting the post. There was no news from Austin, harmless from the start, while LAFC repeatedly sought the back of the rival defense with the trident Vela-Arango-Bouanga combining more and more freely.

He stalked the goal LAFC (Bouanga had another very clear opportunity after a diagonal pass from Vela) but the well-deserved goal against the local domain came in the 29th minute with an impeccable header from Arango in a corner The goal did not change the script of the match.

LAFC continued to attack some Austin center backs with huge problems defending long balls. Candle brushed the second in its umpteenth diagonal from the right wing and Cifuentes he also came close to knocking out a very disappointing Austin from outside the box in the first 45 minutes, with Driussi Y Fagundez disappeared and that he was lucky to go to the locker room only 1-0 down.

Without too much conviction, Austin took a small step forward in the restart against a LAFC in which Ibeagha replaced Chiellini. In 57 he could have sentenced the LAFC with a double opportunity: first Candle he did not hit with a free header in the small area and, on the same play, Hollingshead a missile was taken out that stopped Stuver.

The Austin left more and more gaps behind and Arango he exploited it by attacking from the left. However, control of LAFC he had a prize again for set pieces, when Urruti, who had just entered the field, got a ball into his goal in minute 61 after a corner kick.

In a constant I want and I can’t, the Austin He looked for the rival goal without many ideas but in minute 81 he received the final blow from the LAFC with a left-handed Opoku.

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