El Tráfico: Grandsir, Bond help Galaxy tie with LAFC

There were nary losers among Los Angeles’ shot faithful connected Sunday.

There were nary winners, either, but a 1-1 necktie betwixt the Los Angeles Football Club and the L.A. Galaxy astatine Dignity Health Sports Park was a needed alteration of gait arsenic some sides entered the 3rd “El Trafico” of 2021 suffering from three-match losing streaks during a hard conflict to gain a playoff spot.

LAFC opened scoring successful the 3rd “El Trafico” derby of the 2021 Major League Soccer play successful the 11th infinitesimal erstwhile defender Mamadu Fall dusted Rayan Raveloson connected his attack to the six-yard box, wherever the 18-year-old halfway backmost roseate supra 3 Galaxy defenders to conscionable Eduard Atuesta’s country footwear with his head.

In 13 appearances this season, the lanky Senegalese subordinate has scored 3 goals, each the headed variety.

The Galaxy brought the location fans astatine Dignity Health Sports Park to beingness successful the 19th infinitesimal erstwhile French midfielder Samuel Grandsir broke the LAFC backline acknowledgment to a done shot from his Spanish teammate Victor Vazquez.

Grandsir needed 1 interaction to dribble past LAFC goalkeeper Jamal Blackman and walk the shot into the backmost of the nett for his 3rd extremity of the season.

A choppy archetypal fractional included 5 yellowish cards from referee Armando Villarreal, who received flack from some sides, peculiarly opposing forwards Javier Hernandez and Bryan Rodriguez.

There would beryllium nary bookings from Villarreal successful the 2nd half, but the lucifer remained aggravated done its entirety.

Both sides astir took the pb with shots that bounded disconnected the woodwork.

Galaxy goalkeeper Jonathan Bond made respective cardinal stops among his six saves, denying Rodriguez’s debased hard changeable successful the archetypal half, a Cristian Arango effort to commencement the 2nd and a unsafe changeable by Francisco Ginella with an hr to go.

LAFC goalie Jamal Blackman was little influential successful the match, signaling zero saves connected the night, but he, too, was the beneficiary of a fortunate bounce erstwhile a Nicholas DePuy header deed the crossbar.

With a constituent apiece, the Galaxy (11-11-6, 39 points) and LAFC (9-12-7, 34 points) stay wrong 5 points of 1 another.