{"id":142305,"date":"2026-02-23T04:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142305\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:32:17","slug":"galaxy-settle-for-draw-with-new-york-city-fc-after-red-card-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/142305\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy settle for draw with New York City FC after red card \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Galaxy head coach Greg Vanney, center, looks on during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match against the New York City FC at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy defender Jakob Glesnes, right, moves the ball against the New York City FC during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy defender Juli\u00e1n Aude, right, fights off a New York City FC defender during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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New York City FC midfielder Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez (7) converts a penalty kick for a goal past Galaxy goalkeeper Novak Micovic, right, during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy midfielder Justin Haak (15) kicks the ball defended by New York City FC midfielder Aiden O\u2019Neill during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Jo\u00e3o Klauss (99) reacts to a referee call during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match against the New York City FC at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Jo\u00e3o Klauss, left, recovers the ball against the New York City FC during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy defender Juli\u00e1n Aude (3) vies for the ball with New York City FC defender Thiago Martins during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy defender Carlos Garc\u00e9s (25) looks to pass against the New York City FC during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy midfielder Marco Reus, right, moves the ball past New York City FC midfielder Aiden O\u2019Neill during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy take on the New York City FC during the first half of their season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Joseph Paintsil chases the ball down against the New York City FC during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Gabriel Pec chases the ball against the New York City FC during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy fans look on before the start of first half of their season opener match against the New York City FC at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy supporter cheers during the second half of their season opener match against the New York City FC at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy defender John Nelson, back, defend against New York City FC midfielder Nicol\u00e1s Fern\u00e1ndez during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy goalkeeper Novak Micovic kicks the ball into play against the New York City FC during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy midfielder Justin Haak heads the ball against the New York City FC during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Joseph Paintsil, left, moves the ball against the New York City FC during the first half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer). The match ended in a draw 1-1.\n<\/p>\n

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A tifo is lifted before the start of the Galaxy season opener match against the New York City FC at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer). The match ended in a draw 1-1.\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Jo\u00e3o Klauss, left, and forward Gabriel Pec look on before the start of the LA Galaxy season opener match against the New York City FC at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer). The match ended in a draw 1-1.\n<\/p>\n

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The Goodyear blimp files over before the start of the Galaxy season opener match against the New York City FC at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer). The match ended in a draw 1-1.\n<\/p>\n

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DJ ACRAZE performs before the Galaxy season opener match at against the New York City FC Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer). The match ended in a draw 1-1.\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy starting eleven pose for a portrait before the start of thier season opener match against the New York City FC at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer). The match ended in a draw 1-1.\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy midfielder Lucas Sanabria (8) kicks the ball against the New York City FC during the first half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy midfielder Marco Reus (18) dribbles defended by New York City FC defender Kai Trewin (5) during the first half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Joseph Paintsil (28) kicks the ball against the New York City FC during the first half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Gabriel Pec (11) brings the ball up the pitch against the New York City FC during the first half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Jo\u00e3o Klauss, right, celebrates with forward Gabriel Pec after Klauss scores a goal against the New York City FC during the first half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy forward Jo\u00e3o Klauss (99) celebrates after scoring a goal against the New York City FC during the first half of the LA Galaxy season opener match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Galaxy head coach Greg Vanney, center, looks on during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener match against the New York City FC at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. on Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. The match ended in a draw 1-1. (Photo by Raul Romero Jr., Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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CARSON \u2014 It might have been unfair to label a season opener as a must-win, but considering where the Galaxy were last year, Sunday\u2019s opener seemed of the high-importance variety.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Galaxy opened the season with a 16-game winless streak and didn\u2019t win for the first time until May 31.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy might have had their sights focused on the win after an early goal by Jo\u00e3o Klauss in the second minute, but things always have a way of changing with the Galaxy and that\u2019s what happened in the 65th minute.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy\u2019s fortunes changed in the 65th minute. Defender Emiro Garces was issued his second yellow card after fouling Nico Fernandez. The play went to video review, and referee Martin Rivas was eventually called over for a look. He would officially confirm the penalty and the yellow card, sending Garces off for the rest of the night and leaving the Galaxy with 10 men.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially in the run of play, I thought penalty,\u201d Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said. \u201cWhen I watched it back, I\u2019m not as convinced as I was when I saw it in the run of play, just because I couldn\u2019t tell if the player runs in Emiro, because they\u2019re both kind of angling toward the ball and then goes down.\u201d<\/p>\n

To compound the situation, Garces was due to be subbed out before picking up his second yellow card.<\/p>\n

Fernandez converted the penalty, tying the game at 1-1 and that\u2019s how the game ended in front of 25,025 at Dignity Health Sports Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought our start to the game was fantastic,\u201d Vanney said. \u201cAnd then I thought we struggled to create attacks, build attacks from the back for pretty much the rest of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt the combination of the group of players were just having a hard time finding the in sync with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klauss\u2019 goal gave the Galaxy some life and excitement, but they were unable to capitalize the rest of the half. NYCFC actually won the possession battle in the half (61-39 percent), but didn\u2019t have a shot on goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know his qualities,\u201d Klauss said of Marco Reus, who had the assist with a nifty backheel. \u201cAfter the goal, we had two or three good moments that maybe we have to a little bit better. I think most of the time they had the ball, but we didn\u2019t suffer a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final possession totals still showed the Galaxy having one of their lowest nights of possession (62-38 percent).<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we had a hard time with the ball,\u201d Vanney said. \u201cI thought we did some really good defensive work. They gave us the ball right back. We gave it right back to them, probably 15-20 times in the game. They give us the pass, we give it right back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to be much, much better on the ball, keeping the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Galaxy opened their competition schedule last Thursday in Panama in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. The first leg ended in a 1-1 draw, with the deciding leg set for Wednesday at Dignity Health Sports Park.<\/p>\n

The positives for the Galaxy are that they will have a chance to win their opening Champions Cup series against Sporting San Miguelito Wednesday, and they\u2019re taking a point from Sunday, despite being a man down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the mentality, I think it\u2019s important, early in the year, if you can, I would have liked the three points, but if you have those games where you grind early in the year and get results, they can pay dividends for the team in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galaxy head coach Greg Vanney, center, looks on during the second half of the LA Galaxy season opener…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58887,9,11,10,400,319],"class_list":["post-142305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-los-angeles-galaxy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142305","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=142305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}