The Galaxy got another chance Saturday night to show how good they can be without their talisman striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
With Ibrahimovic sitting out a second consecutive match with a strained Achilles, the Galaxy were ambitious, aggressive and relentless in his absence, riding first-half goals from Jonathan dos Santos and Chris Pontius and a late second-half score from Sebastian Lletget to a 3-2 victory over Minnesota United before an announced crowd of 21,177 at Dignity Health Sports Park.
Minnesota, which never led, received goals from Jan Gregus in the 75thminute and from Angelo Rodriguez a dozen minutes later.