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Galaxy Ends Six-Game Skid

Sept. 10, 2007

Two-thirds of the way through its confused and corrosive Major League Soccer season, the Galaxy finally got a break Saturday night.

A 3-1 victory over the Colorado Rapids at the Home Depot Center ended a six-game losing streak for the Galaxy, momentarily lifting the gloom in Carson and even bringing a few post game grins.

So what if the second of those goals was scored from a palpably offside position. The linesman didn't flag it and referee Ricardo Salazar didn't call it.

So what if the first two goal-getters -- Alan Gordon and Edson Buddle -- each limped off with injuries shortly after scoring. The Galaxy has been overcoming injuries all year and two more won't make much difference at this point.

What mattered was that the team won an MLS game for the first time since the Fourth of July. The three points it added to its embarrassingly bleak total of 14 meant that, while still in last place, the Galaxy is now only one point behind Real Salt Lake , which lost at Houston .

By the time the third goal arrived, courtesy of midfielder Kyle Martino, it was enough to cause Martino to do a celebratory dance in the corner and for the announced crowd of 22,881 to believe that a rare victory was not only possible but probable.

The first 45 minutes did nothing to suggest that. They provided probably the most turgid soccer seen this season, with the teams one as inept as the other.

David Beckham and Chris Albright, recovering from injuries and watching in suits and ties from one of the stadium's event suites, could only cringe.

Thirty-six seconds into the second half, things started to change.

Gordon put the Galaxy ahead, side-footing the ball into the net after beating goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul to midfielder Pete Vagenas' long and rather hopeful downfield delivery into the penalty area.

It was the first goal the Galaxy had scored against the Rapids in 588 minutes, a barren spell dating to September 2005.

Buddle, who was at least a yard offside when Cobi Jones passed the ball to him, scored the second, chipping his shot over backup goalkeeper Zach Thornton in the 63rd minute. Thornton five minutes earlier had replaced Coundoul, who suffered an abdominal strain.

Gordon left the game just after his goal, with an undetermined left leg injury, and Buddle followed suit after scoring. A left hamstring injury caused his early departure.

Martino's goal, in the 70th minute, came when he stooped to head Chris Klein's deep cross from the right into the net. Thornton attempted to fist the ball clear but succeeded only in driving it into the side netting.

Colorado (7-10-7) got an 89th-minute goal from Mehdi Ballouchy, who fired a line drive into the Galaxy net after goalkeeper Joe Cannon's punch, like Thornton 's, failed to clear the ball.

By that point, however, the Galaxy was unconcerned. It was about to "improve" -- the term is used loosely -- to 4-11-5. With 10 games left, the inevitable had been postponed and the impossible was still alive.

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The Galaxy opened their stadium, the Home Depot Center on June 7. But in order for their home to be ready, the team had to play a record 8 games to start the season and failed to win a game. In fact, the Galaxy finish the season without a win away from home the whole season. After the season's final game, the Galaxy had the final playoff spot in the West. In their aggregate series with the Earthquakes, they seemed well on to vindication for the MLS Cup loss 2 years earlier as they held 4 goals to 0 lead midway through the 2 nd game. A thing happened as the Earthquakes scored four unanswered goals to force a tiebreaker. In that session, the Earthquakes' Rodrigo Farina score to send the Quakes onto the next round.

In 2004 Looking to return to the top, the Galaxy would go through a mediocre 1 st half of the season before 3 straight wins over the summer. But from July 14 on, the Galaxy won only 2 more games, one in September and one in October. The Galaxy had a record of 11-9-10, good enough for 2nd in the West and the playoff, remaining the only club in MLS to have a playoff spot in every year of league in the playoffs, the Galaxy withstood an early challenge from the Rapids to win the aggregate goal series, 2-1, scoring 2 times in Game 2. In the conference final, the Galaxy's season would come to an end in Kansas with a 2-0 loss to Arnaud and the Wizards.

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