Galaxys early-season struggles continue in loss

The MLS began play seven weeks in the past but apparently somebody forgot to inform the Galaxy, who continue to sleepwalk through a season that is quickly slipping away from them.

On Saturday, a pair of defensive errors led to two Minnesota United objectives and a 2-1 loss that prolonged the Galaxy’s winless streak to 4 video games in league play. And it’s going to get more durable, not simpler, going ahead for the Galaxy, who journey to Toluca, Mexico, on Wednesday for a CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal, the first of six video games the workforce will play in the next 21 days.

Anthony Markanich and Kelvin Yeboah scored for Minnesota United (2-2-2) while the Galaxy purpose got here from Marco Reus.

The Galaxy (1-3-2) was the better workforce for most of the first half, but they had been once again plagued by indecision in the ultimate third — particularly in the first half when they outshot Minnesota 6-2. And as a outcome, some promising scoring possibilities had been wasted.

They wasted another golden alternative in the opening minutes of the second half when Gabriel Pec beat a pair of defenders up the best aspect and into the box, where he pulled up and pushed the ball into the middle of the penalty space for an onrushing Reus. But the move went behind Reus, permitting Minnesota to recuperate.

That proved pricey less than a minute later when Markanich, racing up the middle, received behind Galaxy defender Mauricio Cuevas to corral a long ball from Joaquín Pereyra, then beat keeper JT Marcinkowski cleanly. The Galaxy pleaded for an offside call but had been ignored.

Reus took issues into his fingers to tie the rating six minutes later, placing a sharp right-footed shot on purpose that Drake Callender parried away, then jumped on the rebound with his left foot and lifting the ball over Callender, who was still on the ground.

Yeboah bettered that in the 67th minute, taking benefit of another defensive breakdown to poke a move from Tomás Chancalay at the left post by Marcinkowski. The Galaxy keeper turned and appeared to upbraid his defenders before clapping his fingers and making an attempt to rally his workforce after what proved to be the successful purpose.

The Galaxy had a number of possibilities to even the rating beginning in the 79th minute when a rebound from a Pec shot deflected to João Klauss, whose strive was high, then again a minute later when no fewer than 5 gamers touched the ball inside the six-yard box before Callender grabbed it.

Six minutes into stoppage time, Callender batted away a closing left-footed shot from Pec for his season-best sixth save. When the ultimate whistle sounded following a closing nook kick from the determined Galaxy, some in the group of 22,447 booed. Supporters in the north grandstand, the Victoria Block, despatched the workforce off with chants of “We Want Better.”

Both groups had been lacking important gamers. The Galaxy had been without winger Joseph Paintsil (hamstring) and defender Jakob Glesnes (calf) while Minnesota was without midfielders Julian Gressel, who was sidelined with a toe injury, and James Rodríguez, captain of the Colombian national workforce, who was hospitalized with extreme dehydration after an worldwide pleasant last weekend.