The good news for San Diego FC is, the team’s five-match losing streak ended on Saturday. The bad news is, it ended with a draw and not a win.
After controlling much of the contest and building a 2-0 lead, SDFC faltered down the stretch and finished the game in a 2-2 tie with Los Angeles FC.
On top of that, the return of SDFC starting goalkeeper CJ Dos Santos was cut short when he was bloodied while making a save late in the match.
San Diego came into the match having last won an Major League Soccer game on March 1; the skid came on top of being eliminated from the Concacaf Champions Cup international competition against Mexican side Toluca based on goal differential.
In the first half of Saturday’s game San Diego got off to a fast start, echoing their play fromlast season, when they were undefeated against every other California team.
Forward Marcus Ingvartsen scored the first of the team’s two goals in the seventh minute when he nailed a header from the center of the scoring box to the net’s bottom left corner, with midfielder Anders Dreyer getting the assist. Ingvartsen added to the lead in the 71st minute with a right-footed shot into the net, his eighth goal of the season.
“I think it was a perfect ball, perfect execution in the box, blocking for each other,” he said after the match. “I was completely free getting in there. So, very good start.” In his first start of the season, Dos Santos — wearing a mask to protect himself after suffering a fractured cheekbone and orbital fracture in a November 2025 playoff match against Portland — kept a clean sheet for most of the match with several highlight reel-worthy saves. But Los Angeles refused to go quietly.
In the 81st minute, LAFC superstar forward Denis Bouanga cut the deficit in half by findingthe back of the net via a left-footed shot from left side of the box to the bottom left corner.
Twelve minutes later, in stoppage time, Dos Santos was shaken up when LAFC midfielder Mark Delgado slid into him while trying to score the equalizer, hitting the goalkeeper in the face and making his head snap back violently.
After laying on the pitch for about four minutes with a bloody nose, Dos Santos left the field under his own power and was replaced by backup keeper Duran Ferree.In the 104th minute – the 14th minute of stoppage time – LAFC’s Ryan Hollingshead leveled the game at two goals apiece with left-footed shot coming off of a corner kick.
“We wish would have played the game a little better in the first half and dictated the game a little better, but our response was amazing,” Hollingshead, a defender, said in a televised post-match interview. “To be able to put on that show at the end and come after [San Diego] here at their place was huge and showed a lot about who we are as a team.”
The late rally gave LAFC a 6-2-2 record, good for third place in MLS’ Western Conference table. Meanwhile, SDFC remains in 11th place in the conference with three wins, two draws and five losses.
The match also marked the second start of the season for 17-year-old LAFC midfielder Jude Terry, a Chula Vista native, who played the first half before being substituted out at halftime.
The game was also the start of a stretch of four matches in two weeks for SDFC. They next go on the road to battle the Seattle Sounders on May 9. Four days later, San Diego will begin a three-game homestand at Snapdragon Stadium with matches against Austin FC (May 13), Cincinnati (May 16), and the Vancouver Whitecaps on May 23. They will open the second half of the season with a July 22 contest on the road against the Colorado Rapids.
Notes: The MLS season will take an extended break in June due to the World Cup, which isbeing contested from June 11-July 19 at 16 stadiums across North America, including in LosAngeles.
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