LAFC sets good records, Orlando City bad in 6-0 shutout | OneFootball

Lions supporters couldn’t turn away, as they watched their Orlando City SC team wreck before the Los Angeles FC.

There were records achieved as Orlando City SC got shut out 6-0 by the Los Angeles FC. The records went against the Lions and fully favored LAFC. They won 6-0 only once before, against the Vancouver Whitecaps in 2020. They’ve scored six goals in MLS play five times.

Orlando set the franchise record for the largest margin of defeat in a regular-season match. Previously this season, the Lions lost 5-0 both to Nashville FC and by the same score to New York City FC.

There are more records.

The 10-game unbeaten streak is a record for LAFC, the only club in MLS without a loss this season. The team recorded a shutout in each of its first six league games of the season. That extends their MLS record shutout streak to open a season to 540 minutes.

The trouble started for Orlando in the seventh minute with a David Brekalo Own Goal. Then, LAFC winger Denis Bouanga scored a hat trick while forward Son Hueng-Min went on an assist frenzy. He provided helpers on all Bouanga’s, with a second-assist on the first by Nathan Ordaz in the 20th minute.

He then assisted with Denis Bouanga as Sergi Palencia scored in the 39th minute. The scoring in the first half was more than enough, but Tyler Boyd added the sixth in the 70th minute with an assist from Jacob Shaffelburg.

Son is only the second player in MLS history to record four or more assists in a half. Lionel Messi is the other, with five against the New York Red Bulls. Bouanga’s fifth career hat trick is the fourth-earliest completed in the league. Coming in a span of eight minutes, it’s also the third shortest.

Because the Lions have one win and the Philadelphia Union have none, Orlando sits next to last in the MLS Eastern Conference. But if conference standings depended on Goal Differential, the Lions would be last place – if not worse – with a mark of minus-18.

Goal Differential, subtracting Goals Against from Goals For, is the simplest statistic in soccer. Yet the number measures how good or bad a team is quickly and accurately. LAFC has a differential of plus-14. The next worst MLS team compared to the Lions in this statistic is Montreal with minus-10.

Orlando City SC no longer has to focus on the MLS postseason this season. They needn’t even fret when their next win might occur. The Lions must instead dig themselves out of a deep Goal Differential hole.