Major League Soccer 2024 Opening Los Angeles FC Seattle Sounders

 

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24 fevrier 2024

BMO Field

ESP

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Même un penalty marqué par un Argentin n'a pas suffi à gâcher la fête. Devant un virage infernal et dansant qui donne au BMO Stadium des airs de bombonera, et après une entrée sur le terrain sur la musique d'Ennio Morricone, « The Ecstasy of gold », Hugo Lloris a remporté son premier match avec le Los Angeles FC, face à Seattle (2-1). Après dix mois sans compétition, le gardien français a effectué plusieurs arrêts très propres, dont l'un à bout portant devant Morris (3e), et l'une de ses relances à la main, plein axe, a débouché sur le deuxième but de LAFC, une merveille signée Bogusz (55e), qui augmentait l'avantage né de la volée de Tillman (45e).

Sous le soleil de février qui a donné à Lloris la mesure de la chaleur qui l'attend aux beaux jours, après douze ans d'Angleterre, le penalty de Pedro de la Vega (73e) a introduit un peu de suspense, mais le Français a pu fêter ce premier succès en famille, en restant très longtemps sur le terrain avec son épouse, Marine, et ses trois enfants.

Hugo Lloris made seven saves and won his Major League Soccer debut, leading Los Angeles FC to a 2-1 victory over the Seattle Sounders on Saturday.Timothy Tillman and Mateusz Bogusz scored for LAFC, which began its drive for a third straight MLS Cup Final appearance after winning the league's postseason title in 2022 and reaching the Final again last season. LAFC has won its season opener in all seven seasons of its existence.LAFC got an impressive debut from Lloris, who moved stateside last December after 11 1/2 seasons with Tottenham, including a decade as Spurs’ starting goalkeeper. The 37-year-old won the World Cup for France in 2018, and he has played in a goalkeeper-record 20 matches over four World Cups tournaments.

Pedro De La Vega scored in the 72nd minute of his MLS debut for Seattle on a penalty awarded to the Sounders after an egregiously long video review, but Seattle still lost to the rival that ended its 2023 season in the Western Conference final. Lloris made his first save in the third minute on a close-range shot by Jordan Morris after LAFC's Jesús David Murillo coughed up the ball in an awful spot. Lloris was repeatedly cool under pressure, and the veteran goalkeeper also opened a new facet of LAFC's attack with impressive distribution on a series of long passes to his forwards. Tillman put LAFC ahead in the 45th minute with a mid-air blast of a cross from Omar Campos, the 21-year-old Mexican left back signed in January from Santos Laguna as a possible replacement for Diego Palacios.