Galaxy (1-1-4) at Real Salt Lake (3-3-0)
Lovely evening for football at Rio Tinto Stadium where the temperature is a balmy 68 degrees, the field immaculate and the snow-capped Wasatch Mountains glistening in the background.
The Galaxy have made just one change to the team that beat New York 1-0 last weekend with Stefani Miglioranzi playing in midfield in place of Josh Tudela who retreats to the bench.
The Galaxy XI: Ricketts, Franklin, Berhalter, Gonzalez, Dunivant, Klein, Kovalenko, Miglioranzi, Lewis, Buddle and Donovan.
RSL have Andy Williams making his first start of the season in place of the suspended Javier Morales, so we'll see how he does pulling the strings in midfield for the hosts.
Ex-Galaxy striker Robbie Findley and Pasadena City College's Yura Movsisyan are up front for RSL
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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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