Comments on: Galaxy vs. Rapids Pre-Game

By: Limey

Limey — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:09:23 +0000

What has happened to Xavuer? Last year he was solid, this year he is weak, going to groung too easily, not standing up forwards, I don’t get it he is better than that. Hope Pete is not hurt, Galaxy looked like a totally differant team with him in the line up.

By: charlesj27

charlesj27 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:02:12 +0000

David Beckham tried so hard for our team – to drive our team – to spark our team players to dig in and score some more… to walk away from tonight with a score line of 4 – 0 or 5 – 1. But alas, there are members on our Galaxy team team that just don’t get it! They don’t have the same GRIT, HUNGER, EMOTION, COMPETITIVE FEVER like David or Alvaro, or Chris, or Joey… and, this is something that Head Coach Ruud, Alexi Lalas, and Tim Liweke must, must see, take notes, and be prepared to address, demand, and change. Because without making some necessary changes we (our LA Galaxy) is NOT… I repeat NOT going to get to MLS Cup 2008. So do what needs to be done… what has to be done… some players are just not cut out to be competitve, hungry, driven MLS Champions. Our LA Galaxy needs to be driven, hungry, tough, controlled, attacking, with every intention of winning and to keep it there!!!
Love this sport – GO GALAXY!!!

By: charlesj27

charlesj27 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:00:01 +0000

Our LA Galaxy team did such an amazing job in winning balls, tunr-overs, maintaining such awesome posession. Then you may be asking, how come the socre is 3 – 2. And, not 3 – 0. Yes, that’s the question that I’m sure Ruud will have to keep harping on and breaking into the guys.
It’s so good to have David Beckham back with us – YES!!! YES!!! David is such a talented, hard-working professional!!! He played his “darn behind” off today – and, fans – this coming back from National Team Duty!!! My hats off to him and hands and feet both are trying to clap!!! David, Chris, Alvaro, Sean, Abel, and Mikey worked very hard for us today. Hey, does anybody know if Mikey was injured or may have pulled something during training sessions this week… Mikey was too tired in the second half. This was one reason why Colorado was able to come back & score. The main reason was that Fernando Clavijo brought in Omar Cummings and Hercules Gomez is the 2nd Half… and, then the tides were starting to turn in the favor of Colorado. Their tenacity, their speed, their weaving around our slower midfielders and defenders… came back to bite our rumps!!! Plus, Steve seemed to have an off-night… Sorry, Steve like I said earlier – it takes at least… at least a full year-and-a-half before a STARTING GOAL-KEEPER gets his instincts, prowess, and timing down correctly.
Sorry to hear and see that Alan got a Red-Card tonight… but, we can thank our lucky stars that one of Colorado’s got a Red-Card also!!! So, when it became a 10-on-10 game for us… guess what happened when Fernado Clavijo put in two very fast forwards. YEP – they began to find spaces, and get break-outs… plus Colorado did very well in applying some SERIOUS PRESSURE & HEAT in the second half after it became 10-v-10!
Once again, members of our team got caught up in the craziness and LOST FOCUS, SHARPNESS, DETERMINATION, DRIVE, & QUICKNESS! This is why we still keep getting dooped and scored on… Think about it – would our team stand a chance against much faster, speedier, grittier teams like New England and Chicago. Is it any reason why they’re the leaders in the Conference?

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:59:56 +0000

Oops, just read my answer re Ruiz’ speed in David’s comment, and share the same hope.

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:57:35 +0000

Only caught the last 15 minutes of the match which gave me a different perspective than the match reports I read, along with comments — elsewhere — about the terrible defense etc etc. What stood out during the protect the lead scramble was that that the defense was actually getting to the ball. Fair enough to the critics, in a perfect world you don’t “hang ten men from the cross bar” to protect your lead, and preferably stay as far from your own box as possible, where, obviously the ball is most dangerous. But in that perfect world you have enough players with the skill to maintain possession in the offensive end, and burn time with the hope of scoring again. That can be a stretch for teams at any level and it certainly looks like it would have been for the Galaxy last night. So yeah, there seemed to be a lot of clearance to no one up the field, but the guys did get to the ball in order to clear it, which is an improvement. It was fun in the end to see Becks and Ruiz make a few runs up for a little give and go. It told me more about how their experience, instincts, and competitive drive will match up than if they were doing it with more time and energy left.

Was I seeing Ruiz at full speed last night or is he still getting fit? If he’s faster that will really make things interesting.

By: David

David — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:08:56 +0000

Just a couple of notes on the players:

Klein actually played good D tonight. Ruiz looked winded and missed opportunities he would have made before. I hope it is just lack of fitness and not something worse. Vagenas continues to do nothing for me.

By: David

David — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:04:19 +0000

What a bizarre night. I think there were at least 5 injury stoppages. That red card incident was insane. The ref goes in and cards Gordon for kicking the Col player (was it Erpen) in the face. They then showed the replay on the big screen. I swear to you the ref stopped and watched. That’s when he saw that the Col player had started it by trying to kick Gordo (maybe in the junk), so he red cards the Col player! Instant replay in the MLS! Then a fan runs on the field, Klein kicks him and a security guard sits on him and it looked like he punched him. They ran the guy out past us and he actually looked pleased.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:59:17 +0000

Lord, nothing like almost snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, eh? (Or is it the other way around? I always get those confused.) You wouldn’t think that when you take a 3-0 lead you’d have to worry. But the Galaxy always figure out a way to keep us on the edge of our seats.

But still. Top of the west!

By: jen

jen — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:40:32 +0000

G’night Glen. Off to check on the kids and then get in bed.

By: Glen

Glen — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:39:10 +0000

Jen, have a good night, it was fun.