Seeing Son Heung-Min and Denis Bouanga with LAFC today seems like we are watching history in the making. In September 2025, they set a new MLS record for consecutive goals in a match, with 17.
That’s 17 goals in a row from the same two players. This streak is enough to make you stop and realize you’re seeing a partnership that just clicks on a different level.
Son only arrived in August, a record $26.5 million signing that set a new record for the league. And he wasted no time proving himself, 8 goals in his first 8 games is the kind of start that only happens in fantasy. But what stands out more than the numbers is how he’s lifted Bouanga’s game.
Bouanga was already one of the league’s top scorers but 2025 has taken him to another level. He has 23 goals and 6 assists so far, passed Carlos Vela to become LAFC’s all-time leading scorer and became the first player in MLS history to score 20+ goals in three straight seasons.
Those alone would put him in the conversation for one of the greatest forwards in MLS history but add Son to the equation and you see a Bouanga who looks unstoppable.
Since Son arrived Bouanga has scored 10 more goals, including two hat-tricks, like they’ve been playing together for years.
A new benchmark for MLS duos
The beauty of their partnership is how seamlessly their styles blend. Son drifts into areas, drags defenders with him, and Bouanga is right there picking up the pieces.
It’s simple, it’s instinctual and it’s lethal. Steve Cherundolo has been quick to remind anyone willing to listen that LAFC’s goals are a result of team movement and collective effort but even he has said watching Son and Bouanga finish those movements has been “wonderful.”
To be fair, MLS has had its share of great duos before. Donovan and Beckham turned the Galaxy into a spectacle, Vela and Rossi gave LAFC its first taste of attacking football, duos like Dempsey and Johnson or Mukhtar and Surridge have had great moments.
But none of them have put together a streak like this.
Would we be getting ahead of ourselves to call them the best MLS dio in history ? Maybe. Because in the MLS, greatness is often predicated on playoff success and sustained excellence over multiple years, and not just what players did over a two month stretch.
Defenses will adjust, and the hardest tests are yet to come. But for the observer, week to week, it would be hard not to feel like this is something new, something historic.
In every single game and at every single interval when Son and Bouanga are on the field, anything feels possible.