Cedric Teuchert scored a objective with an lend a hand as St. Louis Town picked up their first win of the season and prolonged the distress of the protecting champion Los Angeles Galaxy with a 3-0 victory Sunday in Carson, Calif.
Marcel Hartel and Simon Becher additionally scored targets for St. Louis Town (1-0-2, 5 issues), who discovered the again of the web for the primary time this season after opening with a couple of scoreless attracts. Roman Burki made 8 saves for his 3rd blank sheet in 3 video games.
St. Louis Town is the eleventh crew in MLS historical past not to permit a objective over their first 3 league video games in a season.
The Galaxy now not simplest have misplaced all 3 MLS video games this season, they’re 0-4-0 when counting a CONCACAF Champions Cup loss closing week to Costa Rica’s CS Herediano. LA is the primary crew in MLS historical past to start out a name protection with 3 consecutive league losses.
Novak Micovic made two saves for the Galaxy (0-3-0, 0 issues), who’ve given up seven overall targets of their 3 MLS defeats to this point this season, whilst scoring as soon as.
The LA offense went at the assault early. The Galaxy’s Marco Reus hit the appropriate publish after a deflection from Burki, with Harbor Miller’s shot at the rebound going over the crossbar.
The Galaxy’s Christian Ramirez had a point-blank shot within the thirty fourth minute that once more was once stored by means of Burki.
St. Louis Town took a 1-0 lead simply prior to halftime when Micovic did not take care of a nook kick from Hartel and Teuchert wiped clean up a free ball in entrance of the objective.
Simply 4 mins into the second one part, Hartel delivered his personal rating in transition into the highest left nook of the objective off an lend a hand from Teuchert.
Once more, the Galaxy simply overlooked scoring a objective within the 83rd minute when Gabriel Pec’s shot from smartly out of doors of the penalty space went simply over the crossbar. St. Louis Town countered instantly as Becher scored in transition not up to a minute later off a lead cross from Kyle Hiebert.
–Box Stage Media