Chivas USA postgame wrap
Real Salt Lake 1 Chivas USA 1
*Chivas USA (4-9-3) are now undefeated in their last three MLS games.
Notable: Three Chivas USA players made their 2010 MLS debuts - midfielders Paulo Nagamura and Rodolfo Espinoza, as well as forward Giancarlo Maldonado.
Quotable:
"We came here with the attitude to win the game because we need to add points to stay close to all the teams in the conference," said Chivas USA Coach Martin Vasquez. "We will take the point; it's a good result considering the way things happened in the game. (Considering) the effort and the load of nine games in 28 days, I think it was a good result and we will take it."
Chivas USA lineup: Dan Kennedy, Mariano Trujillo, Michael Umana, Dario Delgado, Ante Jazic, Michael Lahoud (Ben Zemanski 46), Paulo Nagamura (Jesus Padilla 69), Blair Gavin, Rodolfo Espinoza, Justin Braun, Giancarlo Maldonado (Carlos Borja 82).
Next for Chivas USA: against the Columbus Crew Saturday at Home Depot Center.
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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