Galaxy-Chivas USA at Home Depot Center
For the fourth straight game 3-0 Chivas USA is dressing all 18 of the healthy players on the club's roster, but Coach Preki makes just one change to the starting lineup, restoring right back Mariano Trujillo to the first XI after he sat out last weekend's game against the Columbus Crew with bruised ribs.
Jim Curtin drops to the bench with Carey Talley moving over from right back to central defense.
The starting XI for Chivas USA: Thornton, Trujillo,Thomas, Talley, Bornstein, Kljestan, Marsch, Nagamura, Mayen, Harris, Lillingston.
Alecko Eskandarian and Bojan Stepanovic are among the options on the bench.
The (0-1-1) Galaxy have Sean Franklin at right half again, after he started there against Colorado in the U.S. Open Cup midweek, while Eddie Lewis returns from injury at left back. Landon Donovan is also back up front partnering Alan Gordon. Jamaican goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts makes his MLS debut in goal.
The Galaxy lineup: Ricketts, DeLaGarza, Berhalter, Gonzalez, Lewis, Franklin, Miglioranzi, Tudela, Klein, Donovan, Gordon.
Jovan Kirovski is dropped to the bench, as is rookie defender Yohance Marshall who made his MLS debut last weekend in the Galaxy's MLS game against the Rapids.
About 100 Percent Soccer
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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