Ryan Wright

Attacking Midfielder (L) - LA Galaxy U20
14 Dec 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ryan Wright

247 Edition

The LA Galaxy Gazette

21 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nobody wins at LA Galaxy

19 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jack Elliott

38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. LA Galaxy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

David Martínez settles it late for LA Galaxy

The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and David Martínez decided nobody was going anywhere. San Diego Football Club had no time left to answer.

Player ratings

David Martínez scores twice — 8.56

Two goals and a mark of 8.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Tempers go at LA Galaxy

David Martínez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at LA Galaxy

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Keaton Parks was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Artur

LA Galaxy asked and Houston Dynamo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

David Martínez sends LA Galaxy past San Diego Football Club

It finished 2‑1, and it was David Martínez’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to LA Galaxy.

Squad

LA Galaxy lose Ryan Wright

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief