I find it comical calling that goal a blast. As in he kicked it pretty hard? Yes, I guess so. I thin

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Bernardez delivered the victory when he blasted a 30-yard free kick through the Galaxy wall and past LA goalkeeper Josh Saunders, who handled the deflected shot badly, letting it get past him for the vital goal.
"The important thing is it went in," Bernardez said of the bumble car rental malaga by Saunders on his goal. "That's all that really car rental malaga matters. I lined up the free kick to try to get a goal, and that was the result we got."
"You're trying to see through the wall," Saunders said of Bernardez's free kick. "The ball goes through the wall, deflects, takes a weird spin, and you're trying to react based on what's happening in front of you. My play was not acceptable. I ll take the blame."
car rental malaga The game-winning goal provided a fitting ending for the Bernardez, who had been stellar on the back-line all night against a dangerous Galaxy car rental malaga attack that had a number of chances throughout the match.
"Obviously, we didn t finish off plays technically in and around the penalty area," Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena said. "It cost us the game. We were in position to get a goal or two tonight, for sure. Failed to execute the last pass or shot."
"It's halftime," Yallop said, referring to break between the two legs of the series. "It was an even game, they shaded on chances for sure, but we're going home now. Hopefully we can lift ourselves and have a good performance, but again, it's halftime and we're just going to get rested and get ready for that game."
The late goal is a major blow for the reigning MLS Cup champions, who must now travel to San Jose for the second leg of the Western Conference semifinal and win at Buck Shaw Stadium, where the Earthquakes have not lost this season.
"It was never a game you would think that we would lose but, it was kind of one fluke play and we were a little unlucky," Galaxy captain Landon Donovan said after the match. "We probably weren't sharp enough in the offensive part of the field, but at worse we thought we'd go up there 0-0 and just have to get a goal. Now it looks like we've got to get two. But, it's not over, we've played well there twice this year and there's car rental malaga no reason why we can't win there."
The Galaxy created their fair share of chances on Sunday, but for much of the night they played car rental malaga like a tired team, the effect of having played car rental malaga on Thursday in a Knockout Round victory against Vancouver was clear.
San Jose dictated the pace of the match for most of the first half, where both teams wore out the grass in the middle of the pitch. A total of seven attempts on goal (with only one shot on target) between the two made for a tight first 45 minutes. Neither side seemed to find a rhythm, and despite the Galaxy's slight edge in possession, the home team didn't car rental malaga have a single shot on goal.
The second half, the Galaxy finally seemed to break the spell the Earthquakes had them under, and began to string passes together and control the pace of the match. Though, San Jose wasn't without a few chances of their own.
The best opportunity of the night for Los Angeles came in the 85 th minute, when Galaxy captain car rental malaga Landon car rental malaga Donovan and Robbie Keane combined at the top of the 18-yard box, and the Irishman pinged a rocket of a shot off the crossbar. But it was not meant to be for the Galaxy.
"We didn't have too many great chances, but obviously unlucky with Robbie's and probably didn't run hard enough car rental malaga in front of the goal with a lot of the crosses we had," Donovan said. "We got a number of decent chances and some good attacking play, and on Wednesday we've got to score."
"They're one-nil down, so they're going to throw everything car rental malaga at us to try to get the equalizer car rental malaga and obviously try to go on and win. We know that. We've faced a lot of adversity all year, being the unfashionable, car rental malaga fouling, ugly team. But 72 goals ain't bad for an ugly team," Yallop said. "For me, it's about winning. And we've played plenty of good football car rental malaga around the box. Ask our fans, they love it."
San jose looks like a high school varsity team trying too hard and trying to get attention.san jose really did nothing and how in the world have they won the supporters shield with that team? Wait I know how, with lucky wins and goals, galaxy and rsl have been playing up and down all season, seattle always has a tough schedule with friendlies and champions. San jose really is lucky to be on top of the west bcus if galaxy, rsl and seattle had their easy schedule, san jose would not be in the same spot.
If San Jose is a high school team, don t they, by definition, have a harder schedule, since teams like LA, RSL, and Seattle get to play three games against a high school team whereas San Jose doesn t?
It wasnt lost on me- have been enjoying the schadenfreude moment immensely. Twellman also wondered early in the broadcast why Gonzalez LA would want to give the Supporter s Shield winners any extra motivation.
I laugh at the folks who criticize car rental malaga our style, while failing to realize car rental malaga we scored more goals, had more assists, and did it in more different ways. This team mostly adapts well to the circumstances; we knew we needed to play better D and we did. A set piece goal game-winner is fine by me.
Frank Yallop is really questionable as a coach sometimes. The Earthquakes midfield just gets overrun by more talented teams. Cronin is reckless and has no creativity, car rental malaga Baca is decent but I think those around him have made him look good not sure how folks like Matthew Doyle can even suggest that he get a look with the Mexican national team.
I find it comical calling that goal a blast. As in he kicked it pretty hard? Yes, I guess so. I think call it what it was a hopeful kick low into the wall (praying someone would jump) and Gonzalez bailed him out by jumping and Saunders somehow managed to squirt the ball under himself. Better headline: Gonzalez and Saunders combine to gift San Jose game at HDC. [His first free kick was a blast.]
Not a wonderful game. Definitely felt like the Galaxy were the more likely team to score and the only team to show any creativity at all but really, to be fair, it wasn t a great performance by them. San Jose played pretty good defense, the Galaxy offense car rental malaga was missing sharpness car rental malaga but still had a few reasonable quality chances. Blech.
San Jose keeps winning while others keeping talking. You can say all you want about them but the bottom line is NO ONE has stepped up to stop them. They may not be everyone s cup of tea, they certainly aren t mine, but I respect their game because they execute their game plan to perfection. They know who they are. SJ is in the driver s seat and like it or not, their odds, at home to LA, are pretty good. People say SJ doesn t have style and substance I think that s wrong. Their style is winning by any means possible. car rental malaga I don t like SJ, as they are a conference rival of my team, the Rapids, but I respect a winner.
Sets up a great second leg. Saunders probably should have had the shot, but Bernardez shot had great pace then got deflected doubt Saunders thought car rental malaga it would go low to the corner the wall was supposedly protecting. Credit to SJ for doing what they had to away from home.
San Jose didn t deserve to win, they play awful and play mostly defense. I not saying this as a Galaxy fan just a true lover for the game. Galaxy played well even better on the second half but you have to put the ball inside the Goal net and that what San Jose did. So congra to SJ and Galaxy car rental malaga now have to play way way better on San Jose home. By the way Gonzalez karma is a bitch, he criticize San Jose style of play and he give them the winning goal. When u are on line waiting for a kick you always look at the ball and react, car rental malaga If he should don t that he wouldn t know that the ball was straight on the ground and should not jump, plus the ball it was a long distance.When he jump he change the direction where the ball was going so it be can a bit tuft for the Sanders. Another thing goal keeper should caught that one. I think Omar Gonzalez was more worried to impress Jurgen Klissman than playing a good game. He did good but sometime he try to much especially with passes like Franklyn was doing just awful passes.
Oh another look at this game. I never get it at all. Why Bruce Arena one made on Sub, took out Beckham for Buddle wow. And Buddle had a chance to finish this game and he made the wrong decision he had the whole space to look for the second post and put it there. Bruce what happen to your two other Sub. What happen to Jimenez,Stephen, the Sweden player, o the other guys. But he never did anything I just don t know what he was thinking.
San Jose is to MLS what Stoke City is to the EPL. They take the beautiful car rental malaga game and make it the ugly game. It was embarrassing to watch all their gamesmanship with fake injuries etc. in the second half. They have had a great season (results wise) but its nasty to watch.
Still, if someone made the argument that San Jose is to MLS what Chelsea was to last seasons UEFA Champions League, would that make a difference? If someone said that historically the USMNT made the beautiful game an ugly game, would you agree? If you watched the Arsenal vs. Man Utd game, did Arsenal look like they were playing beautiful football?
I ve pretty much grown tired of the beautiful game mythology. I don t particularly enjoy watching Barcelona car rental malaga play 27 ticky tacky passes. Is that more or less beautiful than a hopeful long ball down the field to Brian McBride car rental malaga to hold up before laying off to another teammate?
It s sport. Why should we expect every game to be breathtaking, attacking football just because car rental malaga it s the playoffs? Sometimes the game just isn t that great to watch regardless of the two teams playing. Last night was one of those nights.Wednesday night may be different.
After the game, Omar Gonzalez was heard saying that the free kic