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Cengiz Under, Jeremy Ebobisse, Denis Bouanga and Yaw Yeboah scored as Los Angeles FC pulled away late to defeat the visiting Seattle Sounders 4-0 Wednesday night.

Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris made three saves for LAFC (6-4-3, 21 points), which extended its unbeaten streak to six matches (3-0-3).

The Sounders (5-4-4, 19 points) featured a heavily rotated starting lineup with a Cascadia Cup rivalry match coming up at Portland this weekend. Seattle’s own five-match unbeaten run (4-0-1) came to an end.

Under’s goal in the 26th minute came following an LAFC corner kick from the left wing. Seattle goalkeeper Andrew Thomas punched the ball clear, but it fell right to Under about 25 yards from the net. Under settled the ball and unleashed a low shot that skipped through a maze of Sounders defenders and past Thomas.

Ebobisse doubled the lead in the 51st minute. Seattle’s Pedro de la Vega was stripped of the ball just outside of the LAFC 18-yard box and Igor Jesus sent a long pass ahead to a streaking Ebobisse, who dribbled around defender Jonathan Bell and put a 17-yard shot into the lower left corner of the net.

Bouanga put the match away on the counterattack in the 80th minute. He took a pass from David Martinez and dribbled down the left wing and into the penalty area before putting a 12-yard shot into the far side netting.

Yeboah tallied on a right-footed shot from about 15 yards out in the 86th minute off a pass from Olivier Giroud to cap the scoring.

Seattle’s Osaze De Rosario, whose father, Dwayne, was the 2011 MLS MVP, made his first career start. De Rosario forced Lloris to make a diving save on a 30-yard shot in the 22nd minute and put a header off a corner kick right at Lloris in the 38th.

The Sounders came close on a couple of other occasions in the first half.

Danny Leyva’s free kick from 25 yards in the 14th minute took a slight deflection off the wall and went just wide of the right post. De la Vega put a header off a corner off the crossbar in the 29th.

Lloris also made a diving save on a curling 20-yard shot by de la Vega in the 65th.

Seattle’s Danny Musovski, who came on as a substitute in the 57th minute, had his five-match goal scoring streak end.

–Field Level Media

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