Columbus Crew (1-2-5) at Galaxy (1-1-6)
My second consecutive noon Sunday Galaxy game and what a difference a week makes.
The clouds are clearing in Carson, but instead of 30,000 screaming green-bedecked Sounders fans in Seattle last weekend it's a half-empty stadium with the makings of an ugly game in store given these two teams' records.
Up top for the Galaxy, Bryan Jordan gets his first start of the season alongside Alan Gordon, while Edson Buddle has aggravated his right quad injury and is sitting this one out. Todd Dunivant is resting after the Galaxy's stint of three games in eight days and Tony Sanneh is on the bench.
The Galaxy XI: Ricketts, Franklin, Berhalter, Gonzalez, Lewis, Donovan, Kovalenko, Miglioranzi, Magee, Gordon, Jordan.
Rolling Hills Estates' Robbie Rogers is in midfield for the Crew, while Guillermo Barros Schelotto and Alejandro Moreno are up front.
The game is on TeleFutura.
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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