🎥 The top five goals from the MLS weekend | OneFootball

We are back once again for another installment of the top five goals across the latest MLS weekend.

Matchday 29 featured plenty to talk about at the office watercooler this morning, and as ever, some top-class goalscoring talent to highlight play across the league as we get closer to MLS Cup Playoff time.

Here are the best hits and goalscoring bits from the weekend.

5. Delgado vs New England

LAFC enjoyed a win on the road that many would have ultimately expected, but a superb hit from veteran midfielder Mark Delgado was something few would have anticipated.

Scoreless after the break, the Black and Gold finally took the lead through the 30-year-old California native, with his inch-perfect hit into the top corner going down as a match-winning effort on a night where South Korean star Son Heung-min made his first appearance in the starting XI.

For a player who rarely scores, this may have been his best-ever strike.

4. Ingvartsen vs San Jose

Viewed as a key piece to the new jigsaw puzzle in Southern California for MLS newcomer San Diego, Danish striker Marcus Ingvartsen has only featured on seven occasions in 2025 due to injury.

His return to action last night as a substitute would result in a lovely team goal to level the scoreline at one-all, with a bit of sublime skill from Franco Negri to flick over his marker before providing a pinpoint trivela on the rising Danes' forehead to nod home.

Was this a sign of things to come on the backend of the season as SDFC push for an improbable Cup triumph in their first-ever season?

3. Artur vs Vancouver

If not for the other two goals to come on this list, under most other circumstances, this could easily have been the top strike of the weekend.

Rarely among the goal scorers across an MLS career dating back to the 2017 season, Brazilian midfielder Artur bagged possibly the best hit of his career when he slammed home an equalizer from another postal code in stoppage time against Vancouver at BC Place.

A mazy run into the box by Lawrence Ennali set the stage before he found Amine Bassi outside the box. He then picked out Artur to step up with a hammer foot, hitting a first-time effort that would kiss the post as it glided past Whitecaps shot-stopper Yohei Takaoka, giving the 29-year-old his first goal of the 2025 season and just his fifth in nine seasons. Top class in every way.

2. Messi vs LA Galaxy

There may be some fans and neutrals who grow tired of seeing Lionel Messi feature nearly every week, but sometimes, you just have to give the little man his due.

Despite starting on the bench against the visiting LA Galaxy alongside compatriot Rodrigo De Paul, the diminutive fooballing icon still would find his way onto the playing surface in South Florida before, you guessed it, bagging a match-winning beauty in the 84th minute.

It was a typical Messi goal, too, beating two men with a lovely bit of skill before rifling his effort into the bottom corner. The fact that he went on to turn supplier for Luis Suárez'z strike five minutes later was icing on the cake.

1. Evander vs Portland

It just had to be this, right? Upon making his return to the Pacific Northwest on Saturday night as the standard bearer for Eastern Conference powerhouse Cincinnati, former Portland Timbers ace Evander did not shy away from a hostile crowd to lead the Orange and Blue to a three-point haul on their travels.

Cemented in the MVP conversation in 2025, the Brazilian midfielder showed why he has a good a chance as any to win the individual honor come season's end, with a well-struck effort from outside the box standing as the match-winner despite Portland's efforts to battle back late.

Contextually, and technically, it's hard to look past this as the best hit of the lot.

📸 Editorial Photo Credit: © Troy Wayrynen | 2025 Aug 16 - Imagn Images