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That’s Denis Bouanga’s first goal for LAFC. It’s also the type of goal you hope you’re paying for when you buy a new DP.
“This goal comes with amazing timing – amazing timing for me, but as well as to give a treat to my teammates, to the city of Los Angeles, to our supporters,” Bouanga said amidst the postgame jubilee. “All the work that we’ve been through together, yes, it’s been [only] six games with the organization, but at the end of the day, there’s a fluidity for me into the organization, and this is to give it back to the club and to the supporters.”
“Very, very proud of the organization, the players – they dedicated a lot to this, their focus this week in training, even though it was an international break and guys came in late, their focus was amazing,” head coach Steve Cherundolo said. “Training sessions were very good. And so the logical performance or result happens – usually when we train well, we play well, and that’s what happened this week.
“So credit to all the players and staff. Everybody did a fantastic job this week to make sure we came up with the right result. And absolutely everybody deserves a short breather, a short celebration, but we have more to achieve this season.”
Even with this two-game resurrection on the heels of that seven-game swoon; even with Gareth Bale being a good soldier about his role as a super-sub, and with Vela being ok with not going 90 every week, and with Bouanga regularly creating danger, I’m still not sure that LAFC are better set-up to win MLS Cup than they were two months ago. And we all know very well that, as Cherundolo intimated, they will consider 2022 a failure if they don’t take home that particular piece of hardware.
But I won’t. The Shield is the best trophy you can win in MLS, and the truest representation we have of who the best team in the league actually is. Give me 34 games spread across eight months over a five-game autumn hot streak any day.
LAFC are the champs. They celebrated like mad at Providence Park on Sunday, and they deserve that lap of honor they’ll take before closing out the season at home against Nashville next weekend.
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