Two of the top teams in MLS will square off tonight at Home Depot Center as the first-place Los Angeles Galaxy faces the red-hot Seattle Sounders (10:30pm, ESPN2).
The Galaxy will play with third-string goalkeeper Brian Perk after losing Donovan Ricketts to a broken arm and Josh Saunders to a red card suspension. LA, which is riding a ten-match unbeaten streak (5-0-5) faces a Seattle team riding a six-match unbeaten streak and three-match winning streak.
SBI will be providing commentary on tonight's match so please feel free to follow along here. As always, you are welcome to share your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Commentary is after the jump):
Especially when you have exciting players to build an attack with. How terrible shooters like Birchall and Barrett and terrible subs like Jordan and Kirovski play over the brilliant, energetic Cardozo.
That first call was awful, but it didn’t influence the outcome….Great match
SSFC went to LA and got a point and the MLS hounds can’t take it..
LA has peaked
Sure it can. MLS is one entity. It can do anything it wants. Those rules won’t apply to interactions with other entities, like tournaments, but MLS is a single entity under FIFA rules, MLS games are intra-squad scrimmages to FiFA, the rules for MLS competitions are independent of FIFA. If MLS wants to play 12 a side, they can.
Actually, that was the FA that put the kibosh on it, not FIFA.
and Ives, I really hope that Sigi comment one of you guys made was just a bad joke…if he is the next USMNT coach, I mean you’ve got to be kidding me!
god what a frickin boring game! after this and the colorado-houston game i think the only team i might take time to watch is D.C. United; they’re one of the only ones that attempt to play real football. MLS needs to clean out all the sigis and arenas and get some more young ben type blood in there…who cares if your team is the best in the league when they play such boring cr@p soccer…
Rob Stone can’t hide his Luv for LA
And no MLS can’t make its own rules…
No they don’t…FIFA would not allow it….they were ready to test it at Fulham and Blatter and Co. said ‘hell no’..
“I brought sparklers for half-time…” – Rob Stone
Galaxy have a sexy trainer
Yeah they already have
No they can’t…the English FA would have had Hawkeye along time ago if that were true…and don’t expect ‘old Sep to change anything….
He has a say so, as does the Canadian Soccer Federation in conjunction as a group…as I said the officiating has improved a great deal since I started watching RSL at Rice Ecles Stadium 6 years ago….but there is still a way to go and for every step forward games like this set it back a step…
The ref becoming the focus of the game and the evening and not the game itself…and that can’t continue on a frequent basis…
Ik but f**k FIFA. MLS can make its own rules just like they had a 4th subsitute for a goal kepper at one time
Sadly Garber can do nothing since the USSF not MLS runs the officiating crews.
Those are FIFA rules…MLS has no control over them….they do over poor officiating….
As an RSL fan, from game one in 2005, I have seen some awful refing in MLS up close and personal to many times…over all it has gotten better over the past six years…which isn’t saying much…but that ref tonight gave the league a black eye and in a national broadcast…th eleague can’t afford that anymore…Garber has got to fix this problem or maybe its time for him to step aside for a real futbal/soccer guy to be the commish….and clean up the officiating side of the game….
Some rules I think mls should institute are goal line technology replay and I think we should scrap stopage time altogether. Instead of adding time why doesn’t the referee stop the clock after every stopage. It would stop players from faking injuries and goalkeepers from taking their time to waste minutes. There would be no more scraps in the back of the net over the ball and there would be no more controversy over how much stopage time a team gets. It would make the game so much cleaner.
What a BS game that Revs-RSL game was for both teams. Both penalties were ridiculous and the two set piece goals were not fouls. The Shalrie Joseph yellow and the Borchers red were absurd. I didn’t understand most of the fouls.
Worst refereeing I’ve seen this year