The LA Galaxy Gazette
Match19 Apr 2031
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.
Squad21 Apr 2031
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.
Match19 Apr 2031
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 ratings21 Apr 2031
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.
Squad21 Apr 2031
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.
Squad21 Apr 2031
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 targets21 Apr 2031
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.
Match19 Apr 2031
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.
Squad21 Apr 2031
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
- The dugout Matt Miazga gets it from the manager
- The dugout Sam Sargent: “That is the standard”
- The dugout When it matters, Lucas Sanabria plays