Conventional wisdom dictates any team would miss a striker who scored 31 goals in 31 games over a single season, but Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s decision to leave the LA Galaxy at the end of 2019 came with a silver lining for some. The Swedish striker was an individual success during his time in Major League Soccer, but this never translated into success for the Carson club.
Indeed, while Ibrahimovic was, by every measure, a goalscoring machine for the LA Galaxy it was often the case that they played to the veteran striker’s strengths regardless of whether it suited them in a wider sense.