10:30am Line-up Some interesting things in that line-up. Fair to guess this is the starting 11 minus Omar, Landon & Keane Keane not fully recovered from off-season surgery Hall? Cochrane/Dunivant to platoon this season? Sarvas not match fit or has Husidic shown something? Rogers not a starter?
I think it is very interesting that AJ is playing centrally and not at RB. If Bruce really views him as the new RB, then one might expect him to be put there for a scrimmage and then pair Opare and Leo or Meyer. Of course, it does give us a chance to test out the trialists at RB, but this suggests AJ isn't out of the rotation at CB.
Juni! Adam Serrano @LAGalaxyInsider 1m A Juninho bomb! A confident run up field and Juninho easily buries the shot from about 25 yards past the 'keeper. LA up 2-0. I want to see more of that this season!
So, will the Chivas USA closed door scrimmage or the Galaxy II scrimmage be a more difficult test for the senior squad?
2nd Half Lineup: Perk; Sorto, Leonardo, Venter, Gaul; Jamieson IV, Sarvas, Garcia, Hoffman; Rugg, McBean
I think Bruce is trying to see how certain parts work (new players etc) and it's hard to tell if you just throw in a bunch of scrubs together and young kids. I suspect he's trying to have balanced teams for each half where he can get a sense of how players are doing without a ton of confusion. Sarvas and Leonardo are most likely the glue for the 2nd team who have been in the system a long time and can keep things together.
No. Matheau Hall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matheau_Hall http://www.lagalaxy.com/blog/beat/2014/01/28/la-galaxy-bring-trialists-dan-gargan-and-matheau-hall-camp-right-back-depth The interesting is that he seems like the USL Pro addition and he got the run with the senior squad, while Gargan and Riley, didn't.
All I need to know about this game is that it's looking like Juni is not starting slow. Please I hope that's the case because we need him in CCL.
I think AJ is the starting RB in Bruce's mind. He just wants to have a look at all our options (Sorto, and the three trialists : Gargan, Riley and Hall) to make a decision. I bet Riley and Gargan will play against Shirak on Saturday. I would not be surprised to see Sorto loaned to the Galaxy II for the whole year and then we'll sign one of the three veterans to backup AJ this year. I agree with Bruce and co. : we don't have enough depth at RB. Gargan is a solid journeyman who was not bad last year with SJ. Riley was one of the best RB in the league a few years ago but he lost himself in bad teams (Chivas and DC).
By the way, in this article on the website : http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...b-friend-brings-new-dimension-la-galaxy-attac Can't find any informations about this game. Can someone help me?
http://www.cdchivasusa.com/video/20...xy-chivas-usa-vs-la-galaxy-friendly-scrimmage 5 minutes of hilights from the Chivas scrimmage
@LAGalaxyInsider: A new #Frenemy for the rest of @MLS? Rob Friend settling in well with #LAGalaxy. - http://t.co/ymBiOUrPjC This part of the article stuck out and was definitely an aspect of our game sorely missing last year: Friend was particularly impressed with another Galaxy newcomer Stefan Ishizaki who fired in a number of dangerous crosses into the Canadian forward as he caused havoc for the Chivas defense along the right side of midfield. “He's a winger that likes to put the ball in the box,” said Friend. “I'm a striker who likes to get in the box and get on the end of them. So it's perfect.”
Notice that the highlights are from Chivas too. If it were up to Bruce, he wouldn't let anyone know that these scrimmages exist.