P/I/P: #17 - LA Galaxy vs Chivas USA 07/11/09 8:00 PM PDT

Previous Game

vs New England Revolution
Result - 1-0 Win!


Current Position

5th in Western Conference
9th in League


Galaxy Injury Report
(As of 07/03/09)

OUT - Sean Franklin (R hamstring strain), Julian Valentin (R foot fracture)
DOUBTFUL - None
QUESTIONABLE - Dema Kovalenko (L calf contusion)
PROBABLE - None

Predicted Lineup

---------------------- Buddle -------- Eskandarian ----------------

-------- Lewis ---------------------------------- Donovan (C) -----

--------------------- Miglioranzi ------ Magee ---------------------

----- Dunivant ------- Berhalter ------ Gonzalez ------- AJDLG -----

------------------------------ Saunders ----------------------------

Writer's Note:

I didn't have any time to stream the NE game. Sorry about that guys. I'll try to get this game up. I don't think I'll be busy that day.

tsaldana,Thanks for your hard work.
About the game with the goats,it will be a good game and we're going to beat them.....
Eska will score....yeah

yeah if you see there forum they are saying that most likely eska will score

Nah, Esky blew his wad on Saturday.... he'll pull a hammy at practice this week. Guaranteed.

lol you could be right ill just hope not if Gordon may be out we cant afford a other forward out

Nah I won't let him pull anything before the Saturday game,after the game may be we let him pull his socks down

Also, Chivas picked up our old friend, Kevin Harmes. Maybe Precki is just losing it.

Woo hoo! Back on page 1.

Cadaver, you must be kidding. Why wouldn't Preki love KRed, Kevin Harm-s. Isn't Atiba "hospital" Harris on NT duty? Gotta have someone share the red card load with Jesse "the bodycast" Marsch-a Marsch-a Marsch-a.

This.

Kevin Harmes, sucks big time.
Don't fall down infront of him,he will step on your wrist,,and won't let go

But I'm glad that the goats have him

Theoretically, shouldn't we have Donovan and Buddle up top this game? About time we had our first-choice strikers in the lineup.

Eskandarian and Gordon off the bench.....that's actually not bad up front.

Too bad we've still got the poo-poo platter of choices in the central midfield.

I don't know if you want to play Dema or not--he's certainly aggressive enough for a Chivas match, but on the other hand, he might be a red card waiting to happen even more than usual. I say play him.

Actually, I'd rather keep Esky with Buddle and put Donovan in place of Kirovski. I don't even care how they line-up. I just think that:

Buddle+Donvan+Eskandarian > Buddle+Donovan+Kirovski.

Good point. There've been times that I've thought Kirovski < Anything With Two Legs but > Anything With Only One Leg. Not that he's played that badly over the last stretch. But yeah, find a way to get your best players on the field. Usually a good strategy. I think if that happens, Donovan definitely slides back into the center into a supporting mid role. The only downside with that is that it gives him less space to make runs, and also puts on lot of pressure on the holding mid since he'll be up in the attack most of the time.

Yah it would be nice to keep Buddle and Esky up top for the remainder of the season. Let them gel. Anyone know whats up with Dema? Its he that injured he cant play?

i think Dema is ok he was in the bench last game and BA said We are missing some other players. We are happy we didn’t have to use [Dema] Kovalenko tonight; we can save him for another week, which is a real plus. Obviously some other guys are missing. We’ll have some additions over the next couple of weeks, i also like the new addition part whos coming brichall ? that properly it

BTW that was off the blog

I know it's old...but it makes me smile

I hate Jovan Kirovski and want him off my team.

I can't understand how Bruce saw fit to give him 90 minutes last weekend.

I want him cut before the month is out.

Looking forward to being in the HDC on Saturday night.

I don't want to hate anyone for their poor play. I even try not to hate people for their wacked out political beliefs.

But Kirovski sucks. I don't know why I am such a loyal Arena fan, when he trots out players who are almost universally reviled for their play.

Anyway,

Just curious how is Migs stock on these boards? Is he getting better?

And when is Birchall coming in?

And finally I just stumbled across this:

http://www.atthefarpost.net/2009/07/colombian-player-kills-fan-who-blamed.html

After what happened to that one player years back when Columbia lost to the USA after a Columbian own goal (killed outside a tavern by his own countrymen) I guess players are now armed to protect themselves from fanatical fans.

kiro i think he has to go migs has been looking a lot better these last game but i think dema is a better

brichall i think well start on the 15 but then again there has been no official word if he has sign or not because his contract did end on the 30 and he can sign with us already but just cant play till the 15 wikipediea site say his contract with la started on the first

haskin we are not getting he already signed a 4 year contract with a SF club

Chivas v Galaxy

This coming Saturday

Tickets on this promo are $13.75 for behind the goals and $22.75 for sideline

That’s much cheaper than normal

Promo closes at 8:00 PM on July 10, 2009 or when they sell out

Code word is SUPER


https://oss.ticketmaster.com/html/go.htmI?l=EN&t=chivas&o=343186&g=586

Got my tickets through StubHub, just mere hours before i got an email from Galaxy that they have tickets reserved for us fans. Sitting in GA till the section gets taken over by Chivas (Mexican club) supporters who only show up to this derby and have no idea whos on the squad for Chivas USA.

As controversial as this is going to be... I thought Kirovski had a couple of good moments in the last game. The one that stands out was when he skinned the leftback and got in a good cross. Can't remember who got on the end of it, but they sadly headed it too close to Reis. Migz is looking better. His passing has been less sloppy the past couple of games. Magee has looked staedy recently too.

Dema has to be first choice in CM right now though.

I think Eskandarian should start. He's got to be up for this game and scoring so quickly and so clinically last week should have him on a high.

aka Legion Kalifas aka Gordos/Crudos/Tontos/Mojados

If Donovan Ricketts is still gone for Gold Cup duty and Landon Donovan and Dema Kovalenko are healthy, then I'd start the same lineup as last Saturday except I'd swap out Kirovski and Magee for Donovan and Kovalenko.

Then second half subs (if available) -- Klein, Magee and either Gordon or Jordan depending upon whether we have a lead (bring in Jordan to run his ass off) or are behind (bring in Gordon as a target up top).

It was a good move, but that was against Wells Thompson who is a so-so right midfielder that NE put in at left back out of desperation. Can you imagine what Nyassi or Mansally would have done?