{"id":830157,"date":"2025-02-27T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/lafc-advance-past-colorado-rapids-in-concacaf-champions-cup-mlssoccer-com\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:13:00","slug":"lafc-advance-past-colorado-rapids-in-concacaf-champions-cup-mlssoccer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/lafc-advance-past-colorado-rapids-in-concacaf-champions-cup-mlssoccer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"LAFC advance past Colorado Rapids in Concacaf Champions Cup | MLSSoccer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The result sees LAFC advance via the away goals tiebreaker, as the series finished level at 2-2 on aggregate following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/mihailovic-gives-rapids-edge-over-lafc-in-concacaf-champions-cup\">Colorado&#8217;s 2-1 victory<\/a> in Leg 1. The Black &#038; Gold will now face the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/columbus-crew\/\">Columbus Crew<\/a>, who automatically qualified for the Round of 16 by virtue of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/leagues-cup\/\">Leagues Cup<\/a> 2024 title.<\/p>\n<p>LAFC midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/marky-delgado\/\">Mark Delgado<\/a> scored the lone goal of Tuesday&#8217;s match in the 49th minute, combining with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/david-martinez\/\">David Mart\u00ednez<\/a> for the aggregate equalizer. With the Rapids unable to break the tie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/aaron-long\/\">Aaron Long<\/a>&#8216;s first-leg away goal was the difference to send the hosts through.<\/p>\n<p>It sets up a rematch with a Columbus side that clinched their spot in the continental tournament by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/cucho-hernandez-columbus-crew-are-leagues-cup-2024-champions#:~:text=Cucho%20Hern%C3%A1ndez%20%26%20Columbus%20Crew%20are%20Leagues%20Cup%202024%20champions!,-MLSsoccer%20staff&#038;text=The%20Columbus%20Crew%20again%20defeated,final%20at%20Lower.com%20Field.\">topping LAFC 3-1<\/a> in last year&#8217;s Leagues Cup final, and made a run to last year&#8217;s CCC final before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/columbus-crew-lose-concacaf-champions-cup-final-to-pachuca\">falling to LIGA MX side Pachuca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/lafc-advance-past-rapids-to-concacaf-champions-cup-round-of-16\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Michele Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer The result sees LAFC advance via the away goals tiebreaker, as the series finished level at 2-2 on aggregate following Colorado&#8217;s 2-1 victory in Leg 1. The Black &#038; Gold will now face the Columbus Crew, who automatically qualified for the Round of 16 by virtue of their Leagues Cup 2024 title. LAFC midfielder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34724,1110,2005],"tags":[12903,5695],"class_list":{"0":"post-830157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-advance","8":"category-colorado","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-advance","11":"tag-colorado"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}