Starting XI: GK Novak Mićovic, D John Nelson, D Maya Yoshida(c), D Emiro Garces, D Miki Yamane, M Diego Fagundez, M Edwin Cerrillo, M Elijah Wynder, F Mauricio Cuevas, F Gabriel Pec, F Matheus Nascimento
Substitutes: GK JT Marcinkowski, F Miguel Berry, F Tucker Lepley, M Tommy Musto, M Isaiah Parente, D Chris Rindov, D Zanka, D Eriq Zavaleta
Lineup Notes:
- Brazilian youth international forward Matheus Nascimento, who tallied two goals in LA’s 4-0 win over Club Santos Laguna on Aug. 7, again starts up top in tonight’s match against FC Dallas. The Niterói, Brazil native has notched three goals and three assists in 20 appearances (11 starts) for the Galaxy during the 2025 MLS Regular Season. Nascimento joined LA as a U22 Initiative Player on loan from Brazilian Série A side Botafogo on Feb. 19, 2025. Notably, Nascimento is the youngest player (16 years old) in club history to make their debut for Botafogo. Nascimento notched 12 goals and 7 assists in 98 appearances (55 starts) across all competitions in six seasons played with Botafogo (2020-25). At the international level, Nascimento has made multiple appearances for Brazil at the U-16, U-17, U-18, U-20 and U-23 age groups. The forward was part of the Brazilian National Team side that won the 2023 Pan American Games gold medal after defeating Chile in penalties on Nov. 4, 2023.
- 2024 MLS Newcomer of the Year Gabriel Pec, 24, who has recorded eight goals and nine assists in 37 matches played (35 starts) across all competitions for LA during the 2025 campaign, returns from an injury in the last match to start on the right wing against FC Dallas. In the Galaxy’s 4-1 win against Sporting Kansas City on September 27, Pec recorded two assists and now has four assists in his last four matches across all competitions. Pec has totaled 55 career goal contributions (29 goals, 26 assists) in 78 appearances (73 starts) across all competitions in two seasons with the LA Galaxy (2024 - Present).
- Mauricio Cuevas, 22, has tallied three goals and six assists in 48 career appearances (12 starts) across all competitions for the LA Galaxy (2023 – Present). Cuevas earned a secondary assist in Diego Fagundez’s goal last weekend against FC Dallas, and he finished with a left-footed shot from the right side of the box into the bottom left corner off Paintsil’s assist in extra time during the Sept. 20 match against FC Cincinnati. Cuevas tallied one goal and one assist in 18 appearances (1 start) during the 2024 MLS Regular Season. In 22 appearances (2 starts) across all competitions during the 2024 campaign, Cuevas notched one goal and two assists. The Los Angeles, Calif., native played two seasons for LA Galaxy II (2019-20) in the USL Championship, recording four goals and five assists in 21 matches played (21 starts) across all competitions.
- All eyes are on Midfielder Diego Fagundez, who scored his 79th career MLS goal in last weekend’s match against FC Dallas, and recorded his 79th MLS assist in the Galaxy’s 4-1 win over Sporting Kansas City on September 27, pushing him forward in his quest to join the 80/80 club for MLS. Fagundez enters this match against Dallas with 78 goals and 79 assists in 421 career regular season MLS matches. He is the eighth player in MLS history to record at least 75 goals and 75 assists in league play: (Landon Donovan; 145 G, 136 A), (Jaime Moreno; 133 G, 102 A), (Dwayne De Rosario; 104 G, 77 A), (Diego Valeri; 86 G, 91 A), (Preki; 79 G, 112 A), (Steve Ralston; 76 G, 135 A), (Luciano Acosta; 77 G, 98 A). In the 2025 Regular Season, Fagundez has made 27 starts of 30 games played and has notched six goals and three assists. Fagundez became the youngest player (30 years, 89 days) in MLS history to make 300 career regular season starts, surpassing Andrew Farrell's previous record (30 years, 182 days).
- Edwin Cerrillo, 25, who has tallied one assist in 38 matches played (38 starts) across all competitions during the 2025 campaign, starts again as the holding midfielder against Dallas. Cerrillo has registered one goal and five assists in 88 career matches played (77 starts) across all competitions with the LA Galaxy (2023 - Present). Cerrillo has tallied one goal and six assists in 160 career MLS regular season matches played (124 starts).
- Midfielder Elijah Wynder, 22, makes his 11th career start (20th appearance) across all competitions this season for the Galaxy in tonight's match against FC Dallas. Wynder earned his first career MLS goal and 90 minutes of action in the win against Colorado on August 23 and notched his first career MLS assist against Vancouver on March 2. During the 2024 USL Championship Regular Season, Wynder recorded six goals and two assists in 33 matches played (32 starts), en route to being named the 2024 USL Championship Young Player of the Year, earning USL Championship All-League Second Team honors and helping Louisville City capture the club’s first-ever USL Championship Players’ Shield.
- John Nelson, 27, tallied his third assist for the season in 29 appearances (22 starts) in the 2025 MLS Regular Season. He again starts at left back in the match against FC Dallas. In the 2024 match played against Colorado at Dignity Health Sports Park, Nelson recorded his first career MLS goal (Regular Season or Playoffs) and an assist in LA’s 5-0 win over the Colorado Rapids in the Round One Best-of-3 Series opener of the 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs on Oct. 26, 2024.
- Team Captainand defender* Maya Yoshida*, 36, returns tonight on the back line after suffering a slight injury in the Campeones Cup match against Toluca FC. Yoshida has tallied six goals and five assists in 85 appearances (82 starts) across all competitions for the LA Galaxy in three seasons for the club (2023 – Present) since signing as a free agent on Aug. 3. His goal against the Sounders in the Club’s regular season match on Sept. 13 helped to mark the first instance that two Japanese born players on the same team scored in the same MLS match (Yamane scored the second goal to bring the game to a draw.) Yoshida made over 450 professional appearances in the top leagues of England, Germany, Italy, Japan and Netherlands since making his professional debut in 2007 with J1 League side Nagoya Grampus. The Nagasaki, Japan, native made 29 appearances (28 starts) for FC Schalke 04 during the 2022/23 Bundesliga campaign. Yoshida recorded nine goals and four assists in 194 appearances (172 starts) across all competitions for Southampton. Yoshida tallied six goals and four assists for Southampton in 154 career appearances (135 starts) in the Premier League (2012-20). Yoshida has tallied 12 goals and two assists in 126 career appearances (120 starts) for the Japanese National Team. Yoshida has played in three FIFA World Cups (2014, 2018, 2022) and captained Japan to the Round of 16 of the 2022 edition of the FIFA World Cup.
- Emiro Garces, 24, starts on his birthday tonight (10/11/2001) in the match against FC Dallas. He recorded his first career MLS and Galaxy goal in the club's 2-2 draw against Minnesota United FC on March 22. Garces has totaled two goals and two assists in 44 career appearances (35 starts) across all competitions for the LA Galaxy (2024 - Present). Garces made 67 appearances (57 starts) across all competitions for Deportivo Pereira (2021-24), helping the club win its first-ever league title during the 2022 Liga BetPlay Dimayor I campaign. At the international level, Garces was previously called up to by the Colombian National Team for a domestic training camp back in October of 2022.
- Miki Yamane, 31, is making his 25th start (30th appearance) for the LA Galaxy in tonight’s match against FC Dallas. Yamane was named to Major League Soccer's Team of the Matchday for Matchday 30 after two assists in the Galaxy's 3-0 win on August 23 against the Colorado Rapids, and again for Matchday 33 after his 87th minute game-tying goal against the Seattle Sounders. His September 13th goal in Seattle was Yamane’s career-first in MLS. Now in his second season with the Galaxy, the defender has recorded one goal and 10 assists in 62 games played (56 starts) since he was signed in January 2024. He recorded 14 goals and 27 assists across 196 J1 League appearances with Shonan Bellmare (2016-19) and Kawasaki Frontale (2020-23). Notably, Yamane was named to the J1 League Best XI in three consecutive seasons (2020, 2021, 2022), and helped Kawasaki Frontale earn two J1 League titles (2021, 2020), two Emperor’s Cup titles (2020, 2023) and one Japanese Super Cup (2021). Yamane has recorded two goals and four assists across 16 appearances (12 starts) for Japan since making his debut for his country in 2021.
- Serbian goalkeeper Novak Mićović, 23, makes his 26th start across all competitions during the 2025 campaign in tonight’s match against FC Dallas. Mićović, who holds a 1.94 goals-against average this season, recorded his third shutout of the season in LA’s 4-0 win over Santos Laguna to advance to the Quarterfinal round of Leagues Cup 2025 on Aug. 7. In his match against the Seattle Sounders, Mićović made seven saves.
