We're about 10 minutes away from kickoff here at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park and the lineups are in.
Gregg Berhalter and Alan Gordon return to the lineup after serving their one-game suspensions, while Colorado native Todd Dunivant will earn his first start since returning to the club. Another new lineup for the Galaxy, who have now used a different lineup in each of the first five matches.
Here's are tonight's lineups.
LA
-----------Donovan-------Gordon----------
Lewis---- Kovalenko---Miglioranzi ----Klein
Dunivant---Berhalter---Gonzalez---Franklin
-------------------Ricketts------------------
Subs: Saunders, Sanneh, DeLaGarza, Tudela, Kirovski, Buddle, Jordan.
Colorado
---------Casey-------Cummings-------
Cooke---Mastroeni---Ballouchy---Clark
Harvey----Palguta---Ihemelu----Kimura
------------------Burpo----------------
Subs: Pickens, LaBrocca, Dalby, Guerrero, Holody, Peterson and Schunk.
The referee tonight will be Alex Prus.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
All Set For Kickoff
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It was a fair result, I guess. But like I said, if we want to go back to the playoffs again, and hopefully further, we need to stop settling for ties.
It's fortunate that we got a tie - AGAIN! It seems like we are employing Houston Dynamo's philosophy - battle it out defensively to earn a tie adn a point 8 - 10 games through a season and then turn the "scoring switch on". As a soccer entusiast, personally, I do NOT like that philosophy. To me, that's being very settled and secure and hiding in one's niche and hoping others will duke it out and wait for casualties! Soccer is a game that is at its best when players have a moving, pressed, driving passion for it - and, they play together in a way that paints vivid pictures to its audience that they are artists in their own right of the game.
Now, all that being said - Colorado has a younger, more resilient/athletic team with a location/stadium that have an altitude advantage. And, unfortunately, we are coming in with a more "aged" team - and, Bruce's main objective is to manange the opposing team from scoring on us early. OK, objective attained. They only score on us in the 2nd-half. But, watching that kind of soccer can be dull and dreary... especially, when the rest of the world's premier leagues are displaying football/soccer with attitude, gusto, and flair. But, I have to keep reminding myself and forcing myself to accept - US Soccer is young and it's going to take at least two decades before we can get to that standard. However, it makes me irritated inside when I see the style and tenacity of football/soccer being played by Seattle FC, Real Salt Lake, and Chivas USA.
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