LA Galaxy @ RBNY. Leave Comments if You’re Watching

By: Laurie | July 19th, 2008

The official Galaxy blog is listing this lineup:

————–Buddle—–Ruiz—————

Donovan—————————–Beckham

————-Vagenas—–Pires————–

Jazic——Vanney———Roberts——–Klein

——————-Cronin———————
Subs: Wicks, Dominguez, Franchino, Randolph, Tudela, Allen and Gordon.

We all knew Ruiz was going to start, right? And the new boy, Dominguez, is on the bench. I’m thinking this back line looks…old? (Except for Troy Roberts, of course.) I’d expect to see Dominguez subbed in forwhoever’s playing the worst at the half, wouldn’t you?

Should be a great game. I’m not expecting nine goals this time, but… I could be wrong. After all, we DO have the best offense and worst defense in the league. Let’s just hope that the majority of those goals are for our team.

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David

Hard to know who to believe here. But one things sticks out to me. Xavier says Gullit takes credit when they win and blames the players when they lose. I remember a game in which Gordon played horribly and stopped to tie his show. After the game, Gullit still publicly said he plays with passion and he thinks Gordon does well. I have heard him criticize the level of play, but never an individual player.
jose

http://www.goal.com/en/Articol...
David

Would be a cool signing if true. I'd still like to see a playmaking midfielder. But that seems unlikely at this point.
Laurie

Sideline Views says the Galaxy is not officially commenting on this one, which means it's probably a done deal, right?
Glen

From the sound of that article it's a done deal, but who knows for sure. Hope it's true, would be interesting to see how it works out with another player who can actually hold the ball center midfield.
Binh

http://nufcblog.com/2008/07/19...
check it out
a certain Nolberto Solano from Newcastle
Glen

Great finish for Donovan. I actually missed the last few minutes of the game so I missed the goal but it was great to see we got out of there with a point.
Justin

Pete was playing more of a CAM position where Pires was playing the DM position. The good thing about Pires is that he is only 23 and should get better the thing with Pete is prolly not going to get better. If we bring in another player in this transfer window I think Vanney will be gone.
David

Amazing result. Just watched Donovan's late goal again. Beautiful cross; very lucky bounce. Our defense is weak. Hopefully Dominguez will shore it up. But I am more and more convinced that our real problem is central midfield. Pires just does not cut it and Vagenas never did.
Diane

Agree Mark. Nice to see how far both teams have come since the beginning of the season in terms of their ability to move the ball around. It wasn't the Galaxy's best game but there was certainly a good deal more "football" -- as Gullit describes aiming for -- played on the ground than looked possible early in the season, which is wonderful to see.

Note: Heat and air quality were ugly, but seemingly more so for me than the players! A tough lot and credit to them for shaking that off!
Mike

what a game!!! but what a build up at the end!!! so close. we just needed more accuracy on the rebound to steal 3 points
Lee

Damn, I thought we just got it. That would have been
miraculous.

We've got to start getting some wins soon though our
we'll be outside the playoffs looking in.
Laurie

oh my lord, I wanted the win, but I'll take the draw.
Laurie

I. Can.'t Believe. That. Went. In.
Glen

Donovan hasn't been as sharp tonight
Glen

no power on the shot from pete
Glen

NY is making some good passes and controlling play right now
Glen

buddle, that was not a shot- had time to settle it
Glen

dodged a bullet there
Glen

come on we need that 1 point at least
Glen

going to a back three, throw everyone forward for the last 10
Glen

damn, almost for Ruiz
Laurie

Gordon for Vanney. Whoa. Because defense is SO overrated.
Laurie

AARRGGHH!! Ruiz, so close!
TJ

If Gullit wants to play this way then sub Pires out - he is a waste of space out there anyway and bring on Randolph and put him in the right back position and put Klein in the middle and have him switch off with Beckham!
Laurie

TJ, I'm hoping that with a speedier central defender we'll have enough power in back to let Klein go forward as much as he likes to. I'm looking forward to seeing Dominguez.
TJ

Gullit needs to pull his head out of his ass and make Klein stay back - NY is killing the Galaxy on that left side every time Klein makes a run forward NY comes back on that side - LA defense cannot handle this - hence the 2nd goal - hell it should be 3 - 1 NY at this time!
David

That's why Angel makes the big bucks. Nice goal.
Laurie

That. Sucked.
David

This announcer is killing me. It's Ja-zic. Not jaw-zic or yah-zic. And apparently our coach is now Yullit.
Laurie

Nice save by Cronin!!
David

Becks isn't having the best game today either.
Laurie

David, I was also wondering where Landon's disappeared to today.
Laurie

Cronin's looking a lot more self-confident today that he has at times in the past.
Lee

Somebody put Rojas on the Christmas card list.
David

Isn't Donovan much better as a striker?
Laurie

Heehee. All of David Beckham's touches on video. That is so...so...MLS.
Lee

We got the better of play overall in the first
half but we've got to get the result tonight.
Glen

Roberts, what a save!
Laurie

Troy Roberts is having a good game, isn't he?
Glen

I can't wait too see Dominguez out there and see what happens
Glen

Dominguez should be able to pick up x-mans air ability
Glen

damn, TVU is messing up for me so I'm missing some of the play
Laurie

I do worry that we're going to miss Xavier in the air.
Laurie

At least we're starting to connect passes and move the ball again. The start of the game kind of sucked.
Glen

CRAP! all I can say
Laurie

Crap. Goal NY. Maybe we will see 5-4 today. Let's just hope we're the 5.
Laurie

That goal was SOOOOOO pretty! Beautiful work by Buddle (is he just amazing this year or what?) and a beautiful finish by Ruiz. I'm so happy to see him score at last.

(And I haven't seen him flop once yet. Yea, Carlos!)
Glen

great goal for ruiz and assist from buddle
Lee

That was a damn nice play by Edson. 1-nil.
Tucker

WELCOME BACK RUIZ GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
Lee

Carlos!!!!
Glen

starting to see some good runs
Tucker

Now were starting to connect and get some chances. and Ruiz is looking pretty good
Glen

damn, what a nice setup from donovan. would have been great to see ruiz get that goal
Glen

nice deflection from Cronin on angel's shot
Lee

Nice save by Steve. We're covering the counter a little
better so far.
Glen

the last few runs have looked much better
Lee

Nope, they're playing it pretty tight so far.
Glen

some sloppy passes going on from the Galaxy
Glen

surprised to see Javic back so soon, so far there's not any flow from us yet
Glen

come on a yellow, lets just hope the ref doesn't show to much crap
Glen

Dominguez will see some time in the 2nd half I'm sure. Come on Buddle/Ruiz
Lee

Yeah, I expect to see Dominguez at the half also.

If the rumors are true and we're trying to trade
Ruiz to NY, this is a good way to let them see
him.

The key is going to be the play of Pete and Pires
in the midfield.