{"id":252621,"date":"2026-04-05T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252621\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:55:08","slug":"galaxys-early-season-struggles-continue-in-loss-to-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252621\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy’s early-season struggles continue in loss to Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The MLS started play seven weeks ago but apparently someone forgot to tell the Galaxy<\/a>, who continue to sleepwalk through a season that is rapidly slipping away from them.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, a pair of defensive mistakes led to two Minnesota United goals and a 2-1 loss that extended the Galaxy\u2019s winless streak to four games in league play. And it\u2019s going to get harder, not easier, going forward for the Galaxy, who travel to Toluca, Mexico, on Wednesday for a CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal, the first of six games the team will play in the next 21 days.<\/p>\n

Anthony Markanich<\/a> and Kelvin Yeboah<\/a> scored for Minnesota United (2-2-2) while the Galaxy goal came from Marco Reus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy (1-3-2) was the better team for most of the first half, but they were once again plagued by indecision in the final third \u2014 especially in the first half when they outshot Minnesota 6-2. And as a result, some promising scoring chances were wasted.<\/p>\n

They wasted another golden opportunity in the opening minutes of the second half when Gabriel Pec<\/a> beat a pair of defenders up the right side and into the box, where he pulled up and pushed the ball into the center of the penalty area for an onrushing Reus. But the pass went behind Reus, allowing Minnesota to recover.<\/p>\n

That proved costly less than a minute later when Markanich, racing up the center, got behind Galaxy defender Mauricio Cuevas to corral a long ball from Joaqu\u00edn Pereyra, then beat keeper JT Marcinkowski<\/a> cleanly. The Galaxy pleaded for an offside call but were ignored.<\/p>\n

Reus took matters into his hands to tie the score six minutes later, putting a sharp right-footed shot on goal that Drake Callender parried away, then jumped on the rebound with his left foot and lifting the ball over Callender, who was still on the ground.<\/p>\n

Yeboah bettered that in the 67th minute, taking advantage of another defensive breakdown to poke a pass from Tom\u00e1s Chancalay at the left post by Marcinkowski. The Galaxy keeper turned and appeared to upbraid his defenders before clapping his hands and trying to rally his team after what proved to be the winning goal.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy had several chances to even the score starting in the 79th minute when a rebound from a Pec shot deflected to Jo\u00e3o Klauss, whose try was high, then again a minute later when no fewer than five players touched the ball inside the six-yard box before Callender grabbed it.<\/p>\n

Six minutes into stoppage time, Callender batted away a final left-footed shot from Pec for his season-best sixth save. When the final whistle sounded following a final corner kick from the desperate Galaxy, some in the crowd of 22,447 booed. Supporters in the north grandstand, the Victoria Block, sent the team off with chants of \u201cWe Want Better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both teams were missing important players. The Galaxy were without winger Joseph Paintsil (hamstring) and defender Jakob Glesnes (calf) while Minnesota was without midfielders Julian Gressel, who was sidelined with a toe injury, and James Rodr\u00edguez, captain of the Colombian national team, who was hospitalized with severe dehydration after an international friendly last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MLS started play seven weeks ago but apparently someone forgot to tell the Galaxy, who continue to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112160,4472,22149,112156,11247,112157,112159,48,52,51,47,50,49,3289,64049,4226,5463,20790,772,112158,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-252621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-anthony-markanich","9":"tag-ball","10":"tag-defender","11":"tag-drake-callender","12":"tag-galaxy","13":"tag-galaxy-goal","14":"tag-kelvin-yeboah","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-loss","22":"tag-marco-reus","23":"tag-minnesota","24":"tag-minute","25":"tag-pair","26":"tag-pass","27":"tag-pec-shot","28":"tag-team"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}