Allisson Faramilio scored twice and the Lights lost 2-1 to a Premier Development League squad on Wednesday in Downey, Calif.
Ben Gotz
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Ben Gotz was named assistant sports editor in November 2023. He previously covered the Vegas Golden Knights. Ben came to the Review-Journal in May 2016 after graduating from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Las Vegas, he wrote about college hockey, college football and high school sports during stops at the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press and Minnesota Daily back home in Minnesota.
The Lights used the same starting 11 for the first time this season in games against FC Tucson and Real Monarchs SLC last week.
The team added forward Daniel Guzman Jr., midfielder Eric Avila and defender Roberto Inigo while getting rid of forward Anuar Kanan, midfielder Adolfo Guzman and defender Jorge Guillen-Torres on Monday.
Lights leader Jose Luis Sanchez Sola promised his team would make the playoffs this week despite a 0-2-3 stretch in the United Soccer League regular season.
Defender Miguel Garduno, who comes from a family of candy makers, is one of the main reasons the Lights have allowed multiple goals in only two games this season.
The Lights dropped their first road game of the season Friday night and fell to 0-2-3 in their last five matches.
The 29-year-old defenseman was the only Vegas player to not make an apperance in the team’s first two playoff series.
The defender injured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot in January, but now has started the Lights’ past three games.
Review-Journal reporter Ben Gotz talks about the suspension to Lights technical director Jose Luis Sanchez Sola and the changes it’s brought to the club.
Bishop Gorman graduate and goalkeeper Thomas Olsen signed with the Lights FC on Friday after spending a week on trial with the team.
Lights coach Isidro Sanchez promised to shake up the team’s personnel after only getting a point out of a match with the winless Roughnecks.
San Jose seemed surprised by the Golden Knights’ early aggressiveness and ended up allowing one goal too many in a 5-3 loss at T-Mobile Arena on Friday.
The Lights’ on-field boss will have to sit out the team’s next seven games after making physical contact with a match official in last Friday’s loss to San Antonio FC.
Review-Journal reporter Ben Gotz talks with Lights FC midfielder Alex Mendoza about his start to the season and his mentality when it comes to starting or coming off the bench.
Technical director Jose Luis Sanchez Sola and coach Isidro Sanchez were both suspended by the United Soccer League for Monday’s game at Real Monarchs SLC and any additional punishment will be announced this week.