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By: EFE Posted Jun 22, 2023, 8:20 am EDT
The Mexican Alan Pulido, with two goals this Wednesday (one of them in minute 91), further depressed an LA Galaxy that does not raise its head while Los Angeles FC (LAFC) was placed as the new leader of the West in MLS and Cincinnati confirmed that it is the fittest team in the East.
This season full of troubles and disappointments does not give rest to a Galaxy without the injured Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández for the remainder of the year and which continues in the last places in the West.
On this occasion, the Galaxy conceded a 2-2 draw against Sporting Kansas Citywho saved a penalty point after a handball from Daniel Aguirre inside the area at 90 minutes.
Polishedwho transformed that maximum penalty and who had already scored with a header in the first half, He is going through a magnificent moment with six goals in his last four games.
The Uruguayan Martín Cáceres scored one of the goals for the Galaxy but He left injured in the second half.
The Galaxy is penultimate in the West with only 14 points after 17 games played (three wins, nine losses and five draws).
Instead, yesNeighbors LAFC beat the Seattle Sounders 1-0 in a game at the top of the West.
Led by the Mexican Carlos Vela, LAFC only needed 54 seconds to go ahead thanks to a good shot from the front and after a counterattack from Mateusz Bogusz.
The Sounders did not acknowledge the blow and reached the Los Angeles goal with danger in the first half with two very clear chances of Raúl Ruidíaz that the LAFC goalkeeper, John McCarthy, took out when the Peruvian striker was already singing a goal.
Neither did LAFC give up the attack and the Ecuadorian José Cifuentes scored the second goal for his team in the second half but the VAR annulled the goal by hand and the scoreboard no longer moved.
LAFC is first in the West with 32 points in 17 gamess ahead of a St. Louis City team that has 29 points after 18 games and that this Wednesday stumbled at home 3-1 against Real Salt Lake.
Damir Kreilach shone with two goals for a Real Salt Lake side who have won their last three away games.
In the East, the Cincinnati, at the head of this conferencesealed his tenth win from ten home games this year by steamrolling 3-0 to Toronto.
The Colombian Santiago Arias and the Argentine Luciano Acosta scored for an impressive Cincinnati that has not lost since April 15 and that, adding the MLS and the US Open Cup, accumulates an extraordinary balance of 12 wins and only two losses in their last 14 duels.
For his part, Atlanta United rescued a point in minute 94 thanks to the young Brazilian Nick Firminowhich he scored on his MLS debut to make it 2-2 against New York City.
Pereira, also a Brazilian, got a double for the New Yorkers.
A similar script followed the confrontation between the Orlando City and the Philadelphia Union, which also ended in 2-2 and which also had emotion until the end.
The locals made it 2-0 with goals from Duncan McGuire and Argentine Martín Ojeda, but the Philadelphia team closed the gap thanks to Jack McGlynn and closed the tie with an unstoppable missile from the Venezuelan José Martínez in 90 and from about 25 meters.
In addition to the epic goals and the absences of the internationals due to the FIFA date, the other protagonist of this MLS day was the bad weather.
Thus, storms and rain forced the start of one game to be delayed (Austin-Dallas) and another to be interrupted in the middle of the game, which could later be resumed (Houston Dynamo-San Jose Earthquakes).
In addition, the Colorado Rapids-Vancouver Whitecaps match, which should have started at 7:30 p.m. in Denver, had not yet started at press time due to bad weather and when it was already 11:15 p.m. without it having been officially postponed.
In any case, Austin made up for the wait as they crushed Dallas 3-0 in their Texan duel with a great goal from Uruguayan Diego Fagundez while Houston also rewarded so much delay with a 4-1 thrashing of San José (Spanish Carlos Akapo scored the only goal for the Earthquakes).
Finally, the Chicago Fire beat the Timbers 1-2 in Portland, Montreal beat Nashville 1-0 and the New York Red Bulls drew 2-2 against Charlotte.
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