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By: jen | June 20th, 2009

Well, on paper we were supposed to win last week. This week we are almost guaranteed a win — on paper anyway.

San Jose is having an awful season. Add to that injuries to key starting players and our chances still look great without Landon and Eddie Lewis. I learned my lesson last week though, so I’m not making any predictions.

Keys to winning the match:

* Quick passing through the midfield into the final third.
* Getting the ball wide in the attacking half.
* Defensive midfield marking, as well as smooth transitions from the d-mids to offense.
* Buddle dribbling at players.
* Ricketts having yet another stellar match in goal.

We’ll see, we’ll see.

Tune in at 1:30 Pacific on ESPN2.

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Girlsoutloud

I thought this was a very interesting post thanks for writing it!
Villa Rentals

Your site layout is a bit off in Chrome. Good post however.
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thanks !! very helpful post!
David

Trick question to ask when we had a good result with Berhalter playing. When have we had a good result with anyone playing? In the games I have seen, Berhalter has made a significant, positive contribution. He is a talented defender who aggressively stops attacks and is usually good at feeding the ball to the midfield. He is far from perfect though, being both overly aggressive at times and a little over the hill for a soccer player. Generally though he is a vast improvement over our prior defense.
Glen

Patterson sure missed a great opportunity, I knew with Huckerby/Convey coming back it was going to be a tough match on the road for us. We had some chances but didn't convert them into goals. Ricketts made some great saves, I'm just surprised Berhalter didn't get another red in this game- he's over do.
jen

Laurie! It's good to see you!

Berhalter HAS been having a bad stretch. I imagine he has saved more goals than he has caused, but maybe not by much in recent months.
Adethomas

can any body tell me when we had a good result when Gregg Berhalter was playing ?/ if he is not getting sent off he is ginving a penalty away WHEN we did win Guess what he was not playing and we beat TFC
Laurie

Sad result. But on the plus side, your goal was gorgeous. It gave ma a huge dose of set piece/header envy.
jen

The usual four in back.

Kirovski, Migs in center mid, with Patterson and Klein on the wings.

Magee and Buddle up top.
jen

Oooh, looks like Kyle Martino is providing color commentary. He's really good -- I haven't heard him on a Galaxy game though.

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