Milan Iloski scored a club-record four goals and Anders Dreyer had three assists as San Diego FC beat Vancouver 5-2 to move past the Whitecaps into first in the MLS Western Conference.
Iloski, an Escondido native, is the third player this season, joining Vancouver’s Brian White and Nashville’s Sam Surridge, and the 20th in MLS history to score at least four goals in a game.
“It was a huge game, and we wanted to win,” Iloski said. “We wanted to get ourselves in that first place spot.
The surge to first came on the same day that Dreyer, Hirving “Chucky” Lozano, as well as team captain Jeppe Tverskov, were named to the MLS All-Star Team roster. The match is set for July 23 in in Austin, Texas against a team of All-Stars from Mexico’s top soccer league, LIGA MX.
They are joined on the roster by global star and 2022 FIFA World Cup winner Lionel Messi and United States Men’s National Team standouts Patrick Agyemang, Max Arfsten, Sebastian Berhalter, Alex Freeman, Diego Luna, Miles Robinson. and Brian White.
With Wednesday’s victory, San Diego (11-5-3) has won seven of nine with just one loss in that span and has 36 points, four behind Philadelphia — the points leaders in all of MLS — and one ahead of Vancouver in the Western Conference.
??. ????????? Milan named @MLS Player of the Matchday. pic.twitter.com/jl76LALx4N
— San Diego FC (@sandiegofc) June 26, 2025Vancouver (10-3-5) has lost back-to-back games following an 11-game unbeaten streak.
Iloski’s shot from the edge of the box was parried by goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka, but Iloski calmly tapped in the one-touch putback from the left side of the area. It slipped inside the near post in the 35th minute.
He then scored on the counter-attack in the 37th to make it 2-0.
Édier Ocampo scored his first career goal in MLS in the 43rd, a first-touch shot off a misplayed ball by San Diego defender Oscar Verhoeven.
Dreyer played an arcing ball-in from the right side to the center of the area, where Iloski scored on a diving header in the 44th minute for the first hat trick in club history. He then ran onto a ball played ahead by Dreyer and beat Takaoka one on one to make it 4-1 in the 47th.
Mathias Laborda cut Vancouver’s deficit to 4-2 in the 66th minute and Antoine Coupland, who made his MLS debut when he subbed on in the 87th minute, capped the scoring in the sixth minute of stoppage time.
SDFC faces Dallas (5-7-6) at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( SDFC, now atop Western Conference, has 3 MLS All-Stars )
Also on site :
- Amazon Has an Iconic $100 LEGO Fountain Garden Set on Sale for Just $64, and Shoppers Say It’s 'Easy to Put Together'
- Iconic '90s Actress, 55, Flaunts ‘Agelessly Sexy Beauty’ in Itty-Bitty String Bikini
- EU calls for Gaza ceasefire, stops short of taking action against Israel