{"id":45631,"date":"2014-12-01T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=45631"},"modified":"2014-12-01T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:29:40","slug":"galaxy-loses-game-advances-to-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=45631","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Loses Game, Advances to Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42572\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_9896-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42572\" class=\"wp-image-42572 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSC_9896-1-618x768.jpg\" alt=\"Galaxy fans will get to see Landon Donovan one more time! (photo by Doug Brown)\" width=\"520\" height=\"646\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galaxy fans will get to see Landon Donovan one more time! (photo by Doug Brown)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The LA Galaxy lost to the Seattle Sounders 2-1 Sunday at\u00a0Seattle&#8217;s Century Link Field. But by virtue of an away goal by\u00a0Juninho the Galaxy advanced to the MLS Cup Final\u00a0where they will play\u00a0New England at the StubHub Center\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Galaxy was down 2-0 when Juninho scored off of a Landon Donovan corner kick\u00a0nine minutes into the second half.\u00a0The right footed blast\u00a0struck the near post and ricocheted into the net.\u00a0The goal put\u00a0the Galaxy into the Final.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy beat Seattle 1-0 last Sunday and even though the teams were tied at two in aggregate\u00a0goals, the Galaxy advanced\u00a0 because of an MLS\u00a0rule that\u00a0adds emphasis to away goals.<\/p>\n<p>Clint Dempsey scored a goal and\u00a0assisted\u00a0on the other for the Sounders. Both goals came in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy- New England game is set for Noon on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Galaxy lost to the Seattle Sounders 2-1 Sunday at\u00a0Seattle&#8217;s Century Link Field. But by virtue of an away goal by\u00a0Juninho the Galaxy advanced to the MLS Cup Final\u00a0where they will play\u00a0New England at the StubHub Center\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[10768,9892,10769,10063,10062,272,10064,10120],"class_list":["post-45631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer","tag-century-link-field","tag-clint-dempsey","tag-juninho","tag-la-galaxy","tag-landon-donovan","tag-mls","tag-seattle-sounders","tag-stubhub-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45634,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45631\/revisions\/45634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}