Wednesday July 9 | 7:30 p.m. PT | Hello Kitty Night
🏟 | BMO Stadium – Los Angeles, CA – The doors open at 6 p.m.
🖥 | MLS season pass on Apple TV
🛍 | Lafc HQ open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. via the outdoor entrance and from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. via the interior entrance.
🕹 | Nivel Up Arcade Open Pre-game from 5.30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and 90 minutes after the final whistle.
LAFC welcomes Colorado Rapids to the BMO Stadium on Wednesday for a critical confrontation of the Western Conference between clubs seeking to go beyond their current position on the line of the playoffs.
With its regular seasonal seasonal calendar, the Black & Gold (7W-5L-5D) is in seventh place in the conference, which sends its eight best teams to the MLS CUP qualifiers in October. Due to the LaFC race at the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions Cup and its appearance in the FIFA Club World Cup, Lafc has played four MLS less than rapids, and has at least three games in all the other teams of the 15 teams.
Wednesday evening’s match was reprogrammed from May 31 due to LaFC’s participation in the World Cup game match FIFA of this evening against the American club.
Hot and cold
The Colorado is in ninth place in the West (7W-9L-5D) and comes out of a 2-1 home defeat against KC Sporting on July 4. Lafc and the rapids will again compete on the day of the MLS decision, on October 18, when each club will play its last regular season match and finish the Playoff of the MLS Cup Playoff. This competition will be played on the law enforcement at the City Rapids, Colorado – The same place as Lafc and the Rapids began their campaigns in 2025, with a blinding day in February. The Colorado beat Lafc 2-1 in the first leg of his series of two games of the Champions Cup on February 18, to be eliminated by Lafc in the return match a few days later in Los Angeles.
Lafc holds the advantage in the series of all regular seasonal times, with a record of 7W-4L-1D, and a differential of more-11 goals (24 goals scored and 13 conceded). Lafc has never lost a home game against Colorado during the regular season game (6W-0l-0d), scoring 17 goals and only granting two.
Form check
Lafc is exactly halfway through its league calendar in 2025, after playing 17 of the 34 games. Last year, the club arrived in Midway Point on June 15, a testimony of the calendar without LAFC League this year. Until now in ’25, Lafc has granted the third largest number of conference goals (24, tied with Minnesota), is fifth in the West in points won per game (1.53), and was held strong at home with a 6W-2L-1 championship record at the BMO stadium.
“If I had a word to describe this season, it would be” coherence “, and sometimes it would be his absence,” said the LAFC head coach Steve Cherundolo after training on Tuesday. “The potential we’ve seen from the group has been great… and i think that’s something we need to clean up for the second half of the season in mls. We need to have more really good performance and certainly less poor performances. Everthing Needs to Balance Out a Little Bit in order goals [and] Consider the points and put us in a position to play for a trophy. »»
After conceding only four goals for the elite of the world competition during its three matches at the FIFA club World Cup, Lafc returned to MLS on June 29 with a 1-0 home defeat against Vancouver, which is second in the West and fifth in the shield race of MLS supporters. The Black & Gold match in Austin last weekend was postponed due to bad weather.
Strike Denis Bouanga, who was recently appointed MLS ALL-STAR for the third consecutive season, is one of the four finalists to be appointed captain of the MLS 2025 stars team [VOTE for DENIS]. Bouanga conducts all MLS players in goals scored since January 2023 and is looking to become the first player in the history of the League to record three consecutive seasons of 20 or more goals. Bouanga contributed eight goals and four assists to the recent unbeaten Lafc game race, which ended with the defeat of a goal against Vancouver on June 29.
Rapid yields
Djordjejeje Mihailovic, who scored the two goals in the 2-1 victory of the CONCACAF CONCACAF CHANCE CUTTER against Lafc on February 18, represented four goals and a decisive pass during his five games against theFC all competitions. Mihailovic was refused twice by the position during the 2-1 defeat of last weekend against KC Sporting, including on a penalty kick in the first half. Darren Yapi won a penalty in the second half and Rafael Navarro converted it to finalize the 2-1 score line. The defeat did not reflect the advantage of 61.5% of rapids in possession or their 25 shots in total for the five of SKCs. The Colorado generated 4.6 objectives expected 1.1 XG from Sporting.
“There is a real burning desire to win matches, bringing the points closer and getting closer to our goal, which are the playoffs,” said head coach, Chris Armas. “Many reasons to get it, the last but not the least, Lafc. You always like to set up the best … They are the reference.”
Rapids can win if
The Movement of Young Armas sets up and transforms the chances into objectives. The SKC match saw the return of the midfielder Colettt (23) of the injury. The candidate of the perennial stars has performed well, as are the other second half replacements Yapi (20), Kimani Stewart-Baynes (20) and Ian James, 17 years old.
“I have a young team, but they fight so much, they run so much, they have put it so much,” said Armas. “I want us, especially the players and our fans, to collect the ultimate rewards of this. We have planted the seeds. “
Lafc can win if
He responds as nine days gap between the games with the kind of energy and coherence that Cherundolo stressed during his Tuesday media session. “We have work to do, we have a lot to catch up to achieve our goals,” said Cherundolo, “and time is exhausted.”
“When you have a congestioned schedule, when you are in a good time and you win matches, it’s also a good time to have a congested schedule because things flow and go in the right direction. It is therefore important to roll the ball in the right direction tomorrow.”
