Half Time: Kansas City Wizards at Galaxy
A lone piece of class from the Wizards' Argentine forward Claudio Lopez was enough to separate the teams going in at the half.
Lopez, a veteran of the likes of Spain's Valencia and Italy's Lazio, made Brandon McDonald look hapless before slamming home his third goal of the season five minutes before half time in a move that came out of nowhere.
The Galaxy almost responded immediately, David Beckham nodding the ball past an apparently awed Michael Harrington, but not Kevin Hartman who saved from an acute angle two minutes later.
In truth that was about it for excitement.
The Galaxy didn't look particularly sharp and as usual the Wizards were content to bunker in and look for the counter attack.
Guess that worked.
Chivas USA beat the Rapids 2-1 in Colorado tonight, with Jesse Marsch and Jorge Flores scoring.
The result means the Galaxy can top the West if they can come back to win since they will leapfrog the Rapids.
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Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
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