P/I/P Game 32: L.A. Galaxy @ SKC, SATURDAY 10/6/18, 5:30pm PT

I agree that SKC was relentless the 2nd half and several of our players were worn out from all of the running in those sloggy conditions. And I was impressed with how Allessandrini and Ema kept fighting through their obvious fatigue; same for Romney and Lletget.

But it was my impression that Z's normal level of effort, competitiveness and usually exquisite skill set were missing from the start of the game. I do remember the occasional selective hard runs you mention but they were few and far between. And as I mentioned I appreciated him making the effort to come back into the box to help us control the airspace in front of the goal when the game was on the line. But the most part he did a lot of ball watching and just seemed out of it, mentally and physically.

As far as the big referee calls - pk and disallowed goal - I think both were about as close to 50/50 calls as you could get. It was fair that each team had one go their way. And as far as the incompetent Marrufo not calling a lot of obvious bad fouls and refusing to protect the players - what's new?

 

This^^^. Except the too tired part - at the end of basically a playoff game you suck it up and make that run into the box - every time.

 

Great game. I couldn't sit down on this one. Little bit of luck on that PK which i never see any contact on Ola but MPNumber9 broke it down enough I am taking his word on it. Steres goal was definitely offside. I think we did great getting out of there with something. KC is just a machine and even in our late-found performance cannot hold up to a team like that. Especialy when the Chosen One has a slow night. A bad nigh for Ibra is a bad night for everybody as evident saturday. Same as with Rooney and DC. Plus that Russell and his hustle was a heart attack in the making that second half. That bastard was a man on a mission.

Didn't like Steres and Romney being broken up like they were for skelvik. Why screw with a winning formula? Just shove him in there for Sheanon and call it a night Dom. It's bad enough I have to even look at the guy. Looking forward to the Loons. We are going to pluck them and serve them with a side Ibra hat-trick sauce!

 

The fact that we're still alive is amazing. I'll take it.

Also kinda chortled that we gave up a goal after Jorgen came in. Figures. Though it was coming and Bingham was due one of these games (easily MOTM as @TrickHog said).

Keep the same line up and keep going!

P.S. The fact that we had multiple players on the line preventing a goal was a testament to how much this team wants to make the playoffs. That effort was great to see.

 

It was only available on Direct Kick for me so I was waiting for the 10:30 broadcast.

At 10:15 I get a text "So with this tie, what does that mean for the Galaxy's playoff hopes?".

 

If text was from a company then turn off notifications. Otherwise....
If from a male -- Is he within driving distance? If so how big/strong?
If from female -- What book is she reading? Or even better - any tv series she is looking forward to binge watching?

 

Brutal.

 

If someone told you this team would tie SKC at Sporting Children's Merciful Lisbon Sport Park -- after holding them scoreless for 80 minutes -- last month, would you believe it? If this were the playoffs, we'd be set-up to advance on away goals against one of the best teams in the conference.

 

I wonder if Zlatan's play had anything to do with a combination of him being on caution accumulation warning (i.e. being suspended if he gets another yellow) and the Galaxy having the lead.

 

I would not believe it. With the speed and intensity KC was playing with all game long, with Kitchen, Ciani, and Shelvik, we would have wilted for at least five goals in that game.

 

I can just picture the scene.

The minister gets to the bit about "forever hold your peace"... the barely audible buzz of a vibrating cellphone... TrickHog screaming "SON OF A BI....!!!!"

EDIT: When one of my many cousins got married, the grooms brother stood up at that point as a joke, then immediately sat down again.

 

I thought I saw a statistic somewhere for wins vs. playoff position teams (or something similar) and the Galaxy was actually pretty solid. It may be our record against the non playoff teams that sinks us this season.

 

Ibra’s passing was poor all night. And, he didn’t even try at the end. That was disappointing.

Poor Shannon got beat up in his first real game.

Russell killed us last time, no?

 

Highlight Time Folks


I think Ibra is getting tired. We need him to be able to at least gut out 90 for the rest of this season to even have a chance at the playoffs but it sucks that we don't have a 3rd striker who could reliably give him a break at minute 65 here and there.

Thanks for sucking up the 3rd DP slot Giovanni!!

 

Yeah Russell was great against us in our first meeting with SKC. He's like a slightly lesser version of Alessandrini; and just a TAM player too.

He'd actually be pretty amazing on our team playing opposite Alessandrini on the wing. Too bad our FO used the majority of our TAM budget on Kitchen, Ciani, and Shelvik this year.