Wednesday, April 22 | 7:30 p.m. PT
🏟 | BMO Stadium - Los Angeles, CA
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Coming off its first home defeat in more than seven months, LAFC looks to bounce back against the Colorado Rapids in a midweek Western Conference matchup at BMO Stadium.
The Black & Gold (5W-2L-1D, third in the West) fell to second-place San Jose on Saturday night as goalkeeper Hugo Lloris conceded his first goals of the year in MLS play after setting a club record by holding opponents scoreless for 595 straight minutes.
Forward Son Heung-Min leads all MLS players in assists, with seven. The Black & Gold has the fifth-best defensive record in the league, conceding just six goals so far – all six coming in their last two matches, both losses.
Colorado (4W-4L-0D, eighth) has scored 21 goals in league play, second-most in the Western Conference, while conceding 15 goals, for a goal differential of +6 (fifth-best in the West).
Only three players in MLS have scored more goals than the six that forward Rafael Navarro has tallied for the Rapids (Musa-DAL, Messi-MIA, Surridge-NSH).
Colorado is also coming off a home defeat, falling last Saturday to Inter Miami, 3-2, in front of the second-largest crowd ever to see an MLS match.
THE SERIES
LAFC holds an 8W-4L-2D advantage over the Rapids in MLS regular-season play, scoring 29 goals to Colorado’s 15. The last goal Lloris conceded before going on his record-setting run this year was to Rapids forward Darren Yapi, who struck in the 87th minute of the clubs’ 2-2 draw on October 18, 2025.
LAFC CAN WIN IF
The Son-Bouanga connection is rekindled. They don’t need to score goals, necessarily, but the clever runs and combinations that made Son and Denis Bouanga all the rage last year (when they combined for 25 goals and eight assists after Son’s summer arrival) have not shown up as consistently in 2026. Still, the Black & Gold sits in fourth place in the 30-team Supporters’ Shield race – a testament to strength of the rest of the roster.
RAPIDS CAN WIN IF
Navarro and fellow attackers Yapi and Paxten Aaronson find room to operate. The Rapids three-man front line – average age 23 – has generated 20 combined goal contributions so far this year (12 goals, 8 assists) and can return to Denver with points if their defenders and goalkeeper Zack Steffen do their part.
