For seven seasons, the Galaxy and LAFC have shared Southern California. But until Thursday they had never played one another while sharing the top spot in the Western Conference standings.
They didn’t finish the night that way, with first-half goals from Kei Kamara and Denis Bouanga lifting LAFC to a 2-1 victory before a crowd of 70,076 at the Rose Bowl. Gabriel Pec scored for the Galaxy early in the second half.
The win, LAFC’s third in as many games, extended the team’s franchise-record unbeaten streak to 10 matches, gave it a three-point cushion atop the conference table and pushed it closer to Inter Miami in the Supporters’ Shield race.