{"id":64017,"date":"2018-07-04T23:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=64017"},"modified":"2018-07-04T23:28:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T06:28:37","slug":"galaxy-fit-to-be-tied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=64017","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Fit to be Tied"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Pontius put the Galaxy up 2-0 in the first half. (Photo by Duane Barker.)<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

(Carson) – Darren Mattocks goal in the 85th minute erased the Galaxy lead as D.C. United forged a 2-2 tie with LA Wednesday night before a sold out Fourth of July crowd of 25, 462 at StubHub Center.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy had a 2-0 lead when Chris Pontius scored in the 25th minute with a line shot by D.C. United goal keeper David Ousted. Zlatan Ibrahimovic put LA up 1-0 in the fifth minute when he booted one in off a perfect cross pass from Dave Romney.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy two goal lead didn’t last long however. Two minutes after Pontius scored Zoltan Stieber caught the Galaxy defense napping as he took a pass and went right through the heart of the LA D and punched it by David Bingham to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy had an opportunity for another goal in the 18th minute when Romain Alessandrini hit Ibrahimovic with a nice dish but his kick was wide left.<\/p>\n

D.C. United nearly tied it late in the first half when Mattocks got by the Galaxy defense but his shot was wide left and LA took a 2-1 advantage into the break.<\/p>\n

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in the fifth minute. (Photo by Duane Barker.)<\/p><\/div>\n

In the second half Alessandrini was clearly tackled when he tried to field a long pass from Ibrahimovic and break away in the 54th minute but there was no call which left Galaxy Coach Sigi Schmid screaming from the bench.<\/p>\n

Ibrahimovic got off a shot from distance three minutes later but Ousted made the save. In the 69th minute Ola Kamara replaced Alessandrini.<\/p>\n

Over the next ten minutes Baggio Husidic and Ibrahimovic again had chances but were turned away by Ousted. It appeared Kamara had put the Galaxy up 3-1 in the 82nd minute but the goal was nullified by an offsides call on the Galaxy.<\/p>\n

Three minutes later Mattocks dribbled through three LA defenders and rifled it by Bingham to knot it.<\/p>\n

Three minutes of additional time was added but neither team could come up with the game winner.<\/p>\n

It was the second consecutive tie for the Galaxy (6-7-4) coming off of 3-3 draw with San Jose last Saturday night in the Clasico. D.C. United moved to 2-7-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Carson) – Darren Mattocks goal in the 85th minute erased the Galaxy lead as D.C. United forged a 2-2 tie with LA Wednesday night before a sold out Fourth of July crowd of 25, 462 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":[11085,11052,12660,10063,272,12880,10120,13199],"class_list":["post-64017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer","tag-chris-pontius","tag-d-c-united","tag-dave-romney","tag-la-galaxy","tag-mls","tag-sigi-schmid","tag-stubhub-center","tag-zlatan-ibrahimovic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64017","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=64017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64024,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64017\/revisions\/64024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}