Over the last five MLS seasons, no player has scored more often than Galaxy captain Robbie Keane. Yet with the team’s title hopes on the line, Keane found himself on the bench twice in the last six days.
“I can promise you Robbie is not happy with that,” Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena said after Sunday’s 1-0 win over the Colorado Rapids. “It’s the way it is.”
And given Arena’s penchant for riding the hot hand, it could be the way it remains when the Galaxy head to Colorado on Sunday for the second game of their two-leg Western Conference semifinal.