Six Minutes and It Was Gone

It didn’t feel like a game that was going to slip. | Photo by Gilbert Bita | Fieldtalk

It didn’t feel like a 4-1 game early.

LAFC had control—or at least it looked like it. The ball was moving, chances were there, and the crowd wasn’t worried.

Then one moment didn’t go their way.

Son Heung-Min gets his look early in the second half—clean strike, real chance.

Saved.

You could feel it right there—hands on heads on the field.

But in the stands, the singing didn’t stop.

That’s what made it stand out.

The game was there. Shape, movement, control—it didn’t look broken yet. | Photo by Gilbert Bita | Fieldtalk

The first crack came in the 53rd.

Ousseni Bouda finishes it—but it started before that. Ball lost. Space opened. No reset.

Three minutes later, it got worse.

Timo Werner finds space and drives through it. That’s when it stopped feeling like LAFC would settle it.

By the 58th, it wasn’t even control anymore.

A deflection. An own goal.

Everything rushed. Everything reactive.

Three goals in six minutes.

Not just mistakes—momentum gone.

LAFC pulled one back in the 74th through Reid Roberts—but it didn’t feel like a comeback. It felt like a response that came too late.

A fan not happy after the 4th goal against LAFC. | Photo by Gilbert Bita | Fieldtalk

And in the 80th, Bouda again.

That one didn’t change the game.

It just confirmed it.

This wasn’t about being outplayed from the start.

It was about a moment they didn’t handle.

And once it slipped, it didn’t come back.