Final Result: New England Revolution at Galaxy
Landon Donovan arrived at half time in place of the invisible Alan Gordon and duly almost resurrected the Galaxy, engineering L.A.'s second half goal to make it 2-1.
The Revs hung on, however, and now the Galaxy go into Thursday's derby with Chivas USA without a win in three games.
The goal came in the 66th minute with Donovan sprinting 40 yards with the ball in a counter-attack that culminated with David Beckham scoring from 14 yards for his fifth goal of the season.
Edson Buddle could have tied it in the 77th minute, but crashed a shot from 12 yards off the bar after Becks had set him up perfectly with a well-hit pass.
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So, did Ruud put Ruiz on the field just to show Sigi Schmidt that he's at least fit enough to put in a game? There didn't seem to be any other point to it.
Thanks for the summaries.
It's a shame the team can't dump Xavier (who was at fault for both goals) because his salary/contract is guaranteed till the end of this season.
The only thing which he "was" good was his aerial ability, but today even that was bad.
Gordon is not good enough to start.
Donovan really changed the game, because his runs helped create space for Becks, Klein, Buddle and Randolph.
Everything was set up to be a big party - a full capacity crowd, great stadium, heck even Becks scoring, 4th of July Fireworks...