Injuries so plagued the Galaxy last season that at one point, the team was missing nine players. They started a game in July without enough healthy bodies to fill out the bench.
One week into this season and the Galaxy already are ahead of that pace, leaving coach Sigi Schmid struggling to put together a lineup for Sunday's game with New York City FC at the not-so-friendly confines of Yankee Stadium (SSN/SD 2 p.m. Pacific).
Four players — midfielders Joao Pedro and Chris Pontius, forward Bradford Jamieson IV and midfielder Romain Alessandrini, the team leader in goals and assists last season — didn't make the Galaxy's first road trip of the season.