When you allowed 67 goals in the previous season, which is an average for about two per game, at any time you keep a opponent down which is a positive.
This is a good way to describe Galaxy Heading in the second game of their season.
Galaxy shut down the Inter Miami CF from the scoreboard, until Lionel Messi scored in the second minute of the stops time, when the Galaxy 10 was below men after the second yellow card of Mark Delgado.
“Defensely, I felt that we were really compact,” said Galaxy coach Greg Vanni. “When we were high, we were together, when we were less, we were together … we were really spreading differently and I think it’s going to be really important for this team, for the whole season.”
Galaxy (0–0-1, 1 point) will face San Jose Earthquake (0-1) on Saturday in the 99th edition of Cali Classico (7:30 pm, Apple TV+)
A lot of questions were focused on the pair of 35 -year -old Maya Yoshida and 36 -year -old Martin Sacreres. Both bring more than their experience.
“For the position of the center for me, you should only be really athletic when you make bad decisions or you don’t read the situation, or when things break around you and you need to cover,” Vanni said. “When you have about 80 years of experience, you do not get many bad decisions from these people.
“You get a lot of good decisions, the recognition of scenarios, before seeing things they are able to bite them. If the group in front of them is doing a good job of keeping us connected, then they are not exposed to big places. So, this is why I say that our connections are actually important to help them. They are both a little more athletic than getting credit for their age, but we also do not want to bring them into a position where they are chasing people throughout the ground, so we have to be compact. ,
This helped against Inter Miami, but San Jose hopes that in further positions there will be a different challenge with his movement.
CACERES missed a temporary fracture in his left knee with a majority of the previous season. His return did not come as a surprise for Vanni.
“First, he is a machine,” Vanni said. “He only works every single day, he is in a weight room every day, he takes care of himself. I wanted him at the age of 36. He looks like this. He is actually a professional about those things and besides that he is a warrior.
Delgadado character Saturday
In Sunday’s game against Inter Miami, the delegadado’s response to her second yellow card was one of the delaits shocks. Shortly thereafter, everyone else felt the same as the video replay showed that Delgado had missed the tackle on Sergio Basquets.
Galaxy appealed for the decision and independent review panel, including a representative of the US Soccer Federation, Canadian Soccer Association and an independent representative nominated by the professional referee organization, decided to save the second yellow card of delgado, allowing them to play on Saturday.
“Between A, looking at the footage, especially from different angles you see that he does not get it; B, I think such a collective community is not a small (a dishonest); And C, when the busquets come out and say that he doesn’t really get me, it should not be a yellow card, ”Vanni said on Thursday. “I don’t know how much of it gets in the decision (decision), but I think there was enough evidence to turn it out.”
“I think this is a bad situation. We lost two points because of this, but we should not lose two digits and the player in a situation that is suspicious. ,
Galaxy in San Jose
When: Saturday at 7:30 pm
Where: PayPal Park, San Jose
TV: Apple TV (MLS season pass)