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03/15 00:00 CDT Choiniere scores 2 goals, Lloris has 4th consecutive shutout as
LAFC beats St. Louis 2-0
Choiniere scores 2 goals, Lloris has 4th consecutive shutout as LAFC beats St.
Louis 2-0
LOS ANGELES (AP) --- Mathieu Choiniere scored twice --- the 27-year-old's
second career multi-goal game in MLS --- and Hugo Lloris had his fourth
consecutive shutout on Saturday night to help Los Angeles FC beat St. Louis
City 2-0.
Loris finished with four saves for LAFC (4-0-0), which has outscored its
opponents 8-0 this season. The 39-year-old Lloris, who had 12 clean sheets in
each of his first two seasons with the club, joined Roman Brki (St. Louis,
2025) as the only players in MLS history with four consecutive shutouts to open
a season.
Choiniere, in his ninth MLS season, went into the game with 12 goals in 132
career appearance.
Choiniere intercepted a pass near midfield, raced to the top of the penalty arc
and slipped a rolling shot inside the left post to open the scoring in the 73rd
minute. Then, in the 81st, Choiniere ripped a shot from near the right corner
of the penalty box that skipped between the legs of defender Timo Baumgartl and
bent inside the left post to make it 2-0.
Brki had three saves for St. Louis (0-3-1).
LAFC's Denis Bouanga hit the crossbar with a shot in the opening moments and
Nate Ordaz had his shot from the center of the area bounce off the right post.
Players for both teams wore black armbands with "IL" in white lettering to
honor Ilona Lwen, the wife of St. Louis City's Eduard Lwen, who died Monday
following a two-year battle with brain cancer. Eduard Lwen, who signed with
St. Louis as a designated player in 2022, has not played this season.
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