MLS Soccer Sunday: Galaxy at New York Red Bulls
It is now exactly 22 days until MLS Cup at Home Depot Center and we have six hours of MLS playoff soccer ahead of us today.
If the Galaxy needed to be reminded about the irrelevance of the regular season in Major League Soccer, they need look no further than the Seattle Sounders' humbling Saturday night loss to Real Salt Lake - that could have even be worse - and gives them a real uphill trudge in the return leg to make the next round.
It appears, howevver, as Staff Writer Phil Collin reports, the Galaxy likely have their big guns back and are well aware of the postseason pitfalls, especially against an inconsistent New York team that nevertheless has the personnel to rise to the big occasion.
After the noon game on ESPN2, Houston is at Philadelphia on the same channel and the Colorado-Rapids-Sporting Kansas City contest follows at 4 p.m. on Fox Soccer.
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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