Many Galaxy fans are going to claim that their team was in the game until the last five minutes, but did you honestly think they were gonna pull it off? Has this team shown any signs of being able to fight through adversity or show resolve and fortitude during tough games? Have they demonstrated a positive, winning attitude during any portion of this season? Did you think Pavon and Gordon were going to suddenly learn how to run during the final 10 minutes?
The Galaxy didn’t start attacking until there were about three minutes remaining in the game. In the first half, they managed to strike an amazing ZERO shots on target, indicative of their pathetic prowess in the midfield and general inability to move the ball around the pitch with any confidence whatsoever. Meanwhile, Frank Yallop sits around on the bench looking like a depressed adolescent and continually states what his team needs to do better in order have success. The problem is, he’s doing a really shitty job of teaching his players how to do what he supposedly encourages them to do (which is retain possession of the ball and get it into areas where an attack can be generated. What a pearl of wisdom!).
Pavon refused to shake hands with the Galaxy coaching staff when he was subbed off in the middle of the second half. Once again, he was totally invisible; I honestly don’t think he had a SINGLE touch of the ball… not ONE! Someone please correct me if I’m wrong with that claim, but I’ll probably need video evidence to be totally convinced. Gordon was just as ineffective, though he did have a few chances and was on the ball every once in awhile. Just please stop calling him “Flash”, because he’s the third slowest player on the Galaxy. Pavon is the slowest and Buddle is the second-slowest. Keep in mind that those are the three strikers on the team.
Quite honestly, I hate Chivas USA and everything the club stands for, and I will never look at them as more than obnoxious tenants who rent out the Home Depot Center from the Galaxy on occasion. But today I’ll admit that they took it to the Galaxy and proved that they are a vastly superior team at the moment. They still have terrible fans who display Mexican flags (if you’re doing that while living in the United States, you’re swearing allegiance to the wrong country) and throw flares and smoke bombs on the pitch, but the team itself is definitely much more respectable than the Galaxy at the moment. So for now, nine more games until this horrid season comes to a close.
