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Recap: Galaxy Upsets Dynamo 2-1 Oct. 08, 2007
On the day the Dynamo manage to pack the biggest crowd in team history at Robertson Stadium, it rained on their parade. Literally and figuratively. After Mother Nature briefly let the rain fall early in the second half, an alert Gavin Glinton headed in the game-winner with a little more than 10 minutes to go to help the surging Los Angeles Galaxy beat the Dynamo 2-1 and maintain their playoff hopes before an announced crowd of 30,588, the Dynamo's first sellout at Robertson. The Dynamo, who are in a heated race for the top spot in the Western Conference and the accompanying No. 1 seed in the playoffs, are in second place, three points behind Chivas USA with two games to go. The loss snapped a three-game win streak and six-game unbeaten streak for the Dynamo (14-8-6, 48 points), who qualified for to the postseason. Galaxy seek playoffs In rallying from an early 1-0 deficit, the Galaxy (8-13-6), who are fourth in the Western standings and in a battle for a playoff spot, extended their win streak to four, their longest in more than a year. "It was a much-needed win for us," Galaxy coach Frank Yallop said. "To come here and get a victory is very difficult." Glinton, a second-half substitute, beat Eddie Robinson to a pass by Cobi Jones, heading it in from 2 yards in the 77th minute to put the Galaxy up for good and frustrate the Dynamo, who thought they should have beaten L.A. "They got two chances — (one) guy got a wonder shot and the second (goal was) on a set piece. That was the difference in the day," Robinson said. "The other 87 minutes of the game was one-sided." Glinton's goal, his fourth of the season, illustrated one of two flaws that doomed the Dynamo on Sunday — lax defense in the final minutes of the halves. Los Angeles was able to get two headers out of the play. The Galaxy's tying goal resulted from the defense getting caught playing a high line as Landon Donovan found a wide-open Carlos Pavón, who blasted one to the far post past Pat Onstad from 16 yards in first-half stoppage time. "We took our foot off the pedal after we scored a goal; we let them have some territory," Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear said. "Then they scored the next goal. Decent play by them, bad by us as far as ball watching and not covering." But the most frustrating of the Dynamo's flaws was their inability to finish off chances. "Not a lot of finishing by us," said Kinnear, referring to botched chances by Joseph Ngwenya and Corey Ashe in the second half. "(If) you don't hit a goal with the chances we had there, that's just rushed or bad technique or both." The Galaxy, meanwhile, converted on half their chances and played tight defense for their first win against the Dynamo in three games this season. With under one minute to go in the first half, the Dynamo thought they had all they needed on a hot and humid afternoon: an early lead. Nate Jaqua put the Dynamo ahead 1-0 in the 21st minute, collecting a deflection off a Galaxy defender's leg near the penalty spot and ripping a low shot past a stretched Joe Cannon. After Pavón tied it, the Dynamo came out firing in the second half. Ngwenya had a header in front of the Galaxy goal go high in the 46th minute. Minutes later and with Cannon beaten to his right side, Ashe misjudged a ball and kicked it against the ground, and it bounced high off the crossbar. Looking for late spark Kinnear tried to jump-start the team by subbing in Stuart Holden and Brad Davis later on, but the Galaxy never backed down, withstanding a barrage of shots in the final five minutes. "We played well, but we let our guard down at times, and they took advantage of it," Kinnear said. "They did it, and that's why we came out with zero points today."
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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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