LA Galaxy will host toluca-fc" rel="tag">Deportivo Toluca FC on Wednesday, April 15, in the second leg of their Concacaf Champions Cup quarterfinal series, with kickoff set for 6 p.m. PT at Dignity Health Sports Park. Toluca takes a 4-2 lead into the return match after winning last week’s first leg in Mexico, leaving LA Galaxy with a steep but clear path to the semifinals.
Gabriel Pec and Marco Reus scored the Galaxy’s away goals in the first leg, and that matters because a 2-0 or 3-1 win would send Los Angeles through on the away-goals tiebreaker. A 4-2 LA Galaxy victory would force extra time, and if the teams were still tied after that, a penalty shootout would decide the semifinalist. Any Galaxy loss ends the run.
The stakes are sharper because the clubs have already met once in 2025, when Toluca beat LA Galaxy 3-2 in the Campeones Cup. This time, the pressure is on the home side to turn around a two-goal deficit without letting Toluca find the net. LA Galaxy entered the match with a 4-4-4 record across all competitions in 2026, and its most recent outing offered some lift: a 2-1 road win over Austin FC at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas.
That result came with several signs of life. Reus and Maya Yoshida combined on a corner kick to open the scoring, and Erik Thommy scored his first goal for the club. The Galaxy also have production at the top of the lineup: João Klauss and Pec each have 8 goal contributions, Klauss is tied for second in MLS with five goals, and Reus has recorded six goal contributions in his last six matches. Pec’s strike against Toluca was his sixth Concacaf Champions Cup goal, underlining how much of LA Galaxy’s comeback hopes rest on finishing chances quickly Wednesday night.
Toluca still controls the tie, but the margin is thin enough that one early Galaxy goal would change the night fast. What LA Galaxy cannot afford is a slow start, because any loss sends the club out of the competition and the clock begins at 6 p.m. PT.
