SJ Earthquakes are no match for LAFC as losing streak extends to four

This time it was all LAFC.

The Earthquakes gave up four goals in the first 42 minutes Saturday night at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles and fell to LAFC 6-2 in a Major League Soccer match.

San Jose lost its fourth straight game, this time falling to a defeated team 3–1 at Levi’s Stadium on May 4.

The Quakes are winless in their last eight matches.

Rodrigues and Benji Kikanović scored for San Jose on Saturday, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the early four-goal deficit.

“Obviously disappointing result,” Quakes coach Luchi Gonzalez said. “I didn’t compete, especially in the first half, in the sense of duels, in the sense of defensive recovery runs – knowing that it’s a good team, very dynamic offensively. We also had control of the ball because they had to enter their own half at the start of the match. But it lacked quality.

“It was far from our standard.”

Mateusz Bogusz opened the scoring by converting a cross from Sergi Palencia to give LAFC a 1-0 advantage in the 15th minute. The home side widened the lead to 2-0 when Denis Bouanga scored in the 26th minute.

Kei Kamara’s goal in the 33rd minute made it 3-0 and Ryan Hollingshead’s unassisted goal in the 42nd minute made it 4-0.

Rodrigues’ first-half stoppage-time goal reduced the lead to 4-1.

After Bogusz scored his second goal of the game in the 48th minute, Kikanović found the back of the net for San Jose nine minutes later to bring the Quakes within 5-2.

Tomas Angel’s goal for LAFC in the 87th minute completed the scoring, delighting an announced crowd of 22,146.