Galaxy Goalkeeper Steve Cronin Out With Broken Hand
Starting Galaxy goalkeeper Steve Cronin is out four to six weeks with a broken right hand, Galaxy officials confirmed Tuesday.
Cronin suffered the injury when his hand struck the face of New England's Taylor Twellman as the Revolution opened the scoring in the seventh minute of Saturday's 2-2 draw with the Galaxy.
Cronin stayed in the game until half time, when he was replaced by inexperienced backup Josh Wicks, who made his MLS debut.
Wicks is the only healthy goalkeeper listed on the Galaxy roster, with draft pick Charles Alamo out for the season.
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Nick, is this a positive or a negative for the Galaxy?
Sorry, that's mean, isn't it?
Cheers
Unless the Galaxy can find a more experienced goalkeeper at the last minute (and no MLS team is going to trade one here w/o asking for a lot in return), Cronin's injury means the Galaxy's playoff hopes are done. Wicks hasn't played a league game all year and unless he's the second-coming of Lev Yashin, Gordon Banks and Dino Zoff combined, his learning curve will be steep and intense.