In preparing for the next LA Galaxy game, like many folks I tend to do a quick gut handicap of either the chances or the projection coming in for each match. Ahead of Saturday’s game at Sporting Kansas City, it was an easy projection: must-win for the Galaxy.
No offense to Sporting, who are normally extremely hard to beat at home and who I knew would come good eventually, even if only for 90 minutes, but they refused to lie down and battered the Galaxy 4-2. Chicharito gave LA a flicker of hope with a brace in the dying minutes, but Julian Araujo’s truly stunning (in a bad way) backpass handed SKC a late insurance tally and the game was well and truly over.