Defender Aaron Lengthy has praised Los Angeles FC’s current defensive power as they put together to welcome Minnesota United to BMO Stadium on Wednesday.
LAFC have received their final 4 in all competitions with out conceding a objective, with Saturday’s 1-0 victory over Atlanta United their one hundredth MLS regular-season win.
They at present sit fourth within the Western Convention with 24 factors and may leapfrog opponents Minnesota United in the event that they proceed their profitable streak.
“We touched on it a bit of bit earlier within the yr once I was requested about giving up numerous targets in numerous bizarre methods,” stated Lengthy.
“We delight ourselves on being a very good defensive workforce with a very good construction and getting 11 guys behind the ball and dealing exhausting.
“Greater than something, I feel we’ve got strikers, forwards and midfielders who can rating numerous targets. If we will maintain zeros, we will win numerous video games. We held 4 zeros in a row, 4 wins, so let’s attempt to preserve the ball rolling.”
When requested about reaching the milestone of their one hundredth win final Saturday, Lengthy added: “To be the quickest to 100 or tied because the quickest to 100, is a large, monumental step. I feel it’s one thing that the membership needs to be happy with.”
In the meantime, Minnesota are second within the desk, simply 4 factors behind leaders Actual Salt Lake Metropolis after a 3-3 draw with Colorado Rapids final weekend.
They haven’t misplaced any of their final seven matches, and ahead, Tani Oluwaseyi is trying ahead to dealing with off in opposition to a troublesome opponent.
He stated: “You all the time wish to face the nice groups and LAFC is a marquee workforce with numerous actually good gamers, actually large gamers. Hopefully, we will put an amazing recreation plan collectively to enter that recreation.”
Again at @BMOStadium this Wednesday #LAFC | @Ticketmaster
— LAFC (@LAFC) Might 28, 2024
PLAYERS TO WATCH
LAFC – Mateusz Bogusz
Bogusz scored LAFC’s lone objective of their win in Atlanta on Saturday. Solely 4 gamers have scored Los Angeles FC’s 15 targets for the reason that starting of April (excluding personal targets): Denis Bouanga (six), Mateusz Bogusz (4), Cristian Olivera (three) and Timothy Tillman (two).
Minnesota – Tani Oluwaseyi
Oluwaseyi scored the second of Minnesota’s three targets on Saturday at Colorado, scoring for the third-straight MLS highway recreation. Oluwaseyi is the second Minnesota participant to attain in three straight regular-season away matches after Franco Fragapane did so in June-July 2022.
MATCH PREDICTION: LOS ANGELES FC WIN
LAFC have received 5 straight matches in all competitions, conserving clear sheets within the final 4. This equals their second-longest all-competition profitable streak (seven straight in 2022) whereas it’s the second time LAFC have stored clear sheets in 4 straight matches (April 2023).
In the meantime, Minnesota are unbeaten in six straight matches following a 3-3 draw at Colorado on Saturday (W4 D2). The Loons have scored a number of targets in all six video games throughout that run.
Certainly, Minnesota ended a seven-match winless run in opposition to LAFC with a 2-0 residence victory on March 16. Every workforce has received 3 times in opposition to the opposite with 5 of the 11 conferences ending in attracts.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
LAFC – 51.5%
Draw – 25.3%
Minnesota – 23.2%
