CARSON, Calif. \u2014 After the opening 45 minutes, the LA Galaxy looked every bit the part of a contender.<\/p>\n
They had a goal inside two minutes from a new striker, controlled the possession and tempo against NYCFC, and played in front of a supportive crowd of 25,025 at Dignity Health Sports Park.<\/p>\n
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For the final 45, the club looked like they were having flashbacks.<\/p>\n
When the final whistle blew on a 1-1 draw Sunday night, the Galaxy were left to sift through the wreckage of a promising night undone by a moment of poor discipline and a second-half offensive stall.<\/p>\n
The night began with the kind of moment every new signing dreams of. In just the second minute, striker Jo\u00e3o Klauss connected for his first goal in a Galaxy uniform.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was amazing. I’ve been in the league for three years and everybody in the league dreamed to play for Galaxy, so in my first game in front of fans and with 85 seconds or something, I scored my first goal.\u201d Klauss said.\u00a0\u201cIt was magic.\u201d<\/p>\n
The match flipped on its head following a lengthy VAR review that resulted in defender Emiro Garces being shown a second yellow card for a foul in the area in the second half.<\/p>\n
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Greg Vanney wasn\u2019t pleased with Garces\u2019 decision making, as Maya Yoshida was standing near the bench, waiting to enter, for Garces.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually had Maya standing right next to me, ready to go in for him, so I just needed one more one more stoppage, as it was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vanney also made a point to call out the length of the review itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt shouldn’t take that long to make a decision. It should be pretty clear and obvious,\u201d Vanney said. \u201cI thought our start to the game was fantastic, and then I thought we struggled to create attacks, build attacks from the back for pretty much the rest of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Galaxy were reduced to 10 men and NYCFC had a lifeline.<\/p>\n
Nico Fern\u00e1ndez calmly buried the ensuing penalty kick, erasing LA’s quick start in an instant.<\/p>\n
Head coach Greg Vanney turned to his bench, inserting Yoshida and John Nelson for Reus and a booked Julian Aude, while Nascimento replaced Klauss.<\/p>\n
The subs, however, failed to spark a response. With their most creative player and the lone goal scorer on the sideline and a man down, the Galaxy\u2019s attack sputtered and died.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just felt like we were making a lot of bad reads as it goes to starting our attacks, I felt like we weren’t showing up for each other with in preparation for what needed to happen next, and we were getting like we were getting forced into a lot of areas of the field that we we didn’t necessarily want to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n
The draw leaves the Galaxy with a single point on opening night, a result that feels more like a loss given the context, a similar feeling after the Galaxy drew earlier this week in Panama.<\/p>\n
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\u201dIt\u2019s always difficult to travel to Panama, play on an interesting field, different circumstances, and then come back home,\u201d Justin Haak, who made his first start against his former club, said. \u201cI think today, especially, we showed really good characters and still come away with a point in difficult situation, going down a man.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201dI also still feel like we could have gotten, or maybe deserved the three points and winning both of those games,\u201d Haak added.<\/p>\n
Next, the Galaxy host Sporting San Miguelito for the second leg of the Concacaf Champions Cup opening round from Dignity Health Sports Park, Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARSON, Calif. \u2014 After the opening 45 minutes, the LA Galaxy looked every bit the part of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59822,59823,59820,59819,36820,58887,59821,9,11,10,6584,59824],"class_list":["post-142298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-dignity-health-sports-park","tag-galaxy","tag-greg-vanney","tag-joao-klauss","tag-justin-haak","tag-los-angeles-galaxy","tag-maya-yoshida","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nycfc","tag-reus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}