{"id":51804,"date":"2016-02-09T20:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T03:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51804"},"modified":"2016-02-10T08:19:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T15:19:53","slug":"la-galaxy-vs-club-tijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=51804","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy, Club Tijuana Zero in on Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_51821\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0908.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51821\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51821\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0908-622x768.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Mendiola gets close late in the game but can't get the ball in the net. (Photo by Duane Barker)\" width=\"520\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raul Mendiola gets close late in the game but can&#8217;t get the ball in the net. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Carson) &#8211; The LA Galaxy and\u00a0Club Tijuana\u00a0battled to a scoreless tie Tuesday night in an exhibition before 14,543 at StubHub Center. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ashley Cole had a shot at an open net but missed high in the 26th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Jelle Van Damme picked up a yellow card for the Galaxy in the 37th minute but Tijuana wasn&#8217;t able to\u00a0capitalize as the teams\u00a0went\u00a0into the break.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51822\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0815.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51822\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51822\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0815-631x768.jpg\" alt=\"Giovani dos Santos and the LA Galaxy battle to a draw against Club Tijuana. (Photo by Duane Barker)\" width=\"520\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giovani dos Santos and the LA Galaxy battle to a draw against Club Tijuana. (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Galaxy had 3 total shots compared to 7 for Tijuana in the first half.\u00a0Only\u00a0Tijuana was credited with a shot on goal.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Sorto made a big\u00a0play in front of the\u00a0Galaxy net in the second half\u00a0kicking away\u00a0an attempt\u00a0by Tijuana that could have broke the scoreless tie. Sorto came in for Cole in the 58th minute. Van Damme exited for Dan Gargan in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy finally got their first shot on goal in the\u00a069th minute when Emmanuel Boateng&#8217;s shot was\u00a0saved by\u00a0Tijuana keeper Federico\u00a0Vilar.<\/p>\n<p>Gyasi Zardes had a\u00a0rush up the right side but was\u00a0denied\u00a0by Vilar who came out to meet him.\u00a0A minute later Raul Mendiola\u00a0missed an opportunity when he booted\u00a0one high over the head of Vilar and over the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Villarreal had a free kick for the\u00a0Galaxy\u00a0in the 90th minute but that sailed high. Two minutes of additional time was added but\u00a0neither side pushed anything across and they were fit to be tied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Carson) &#8211; The LA Galaxy and\u00a0Club Tijuana\u00a0battled to a scoreless tie Tuesday night in an exhibition before 14,543 at StubHub Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[11623,11621,11086,11624,11625,10083,11622,11015,10063,11277,11430,10120],"class_list":["post-51804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer","tag-ashley-cole","tag-club-tijuana-soccer","tag-dan-gargan","tag-emmanuel-boateng","tag-federico-vilar","tag-gyasi-zardes","tag-jelle-van-damme","tag-jose-villarreal","tag-la-galaxy","tag-oscar-sorto","tag-raul-mendiola","tag-stubhub-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51804"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51824,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51804\/revisions\/51824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}