Galaxy falls to Real Salt Lake on late goal as winless streak reaches 8

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SANDY, Utah — Anderson Julio scored connected a breakaway successful the 95th infinitesimal to springiness Real Salt Lake a 2-1 triumph implicit the slumping Galaxy connected Wednesday night.

The Galaxy (11-11-5, 38 points) had its winless tally extended to 8 matches, portion Salt Lake (11-10-6, 39 points) won for the 3rd clip successful its past 4 games and edged past the Galaxy successful the Western Conference standings.

Julio got a interaction connected Damir Kreilach’s agelong walk to get distant from 2 defenders and helium volleyed it wrong the acold post, past a diving Jonathan Bond.

Kreilach opened the scoring for Salt Lake successful the 45th infinitesimal with a header that went disconnected the hands of Bond and rolled implicit the line. Kreilach has 4 goals successful his past 5 games and 12 wide this season.

Javier “Chicharito” Hernández scored for the Galaxy successful the 76th by settling a walk from Efraín Álvarez and beating goalkeeper David Ochoa to the adjacent post.

Chicharito besides had bully scoring chances successful the 16th and 57th minutes, but Ochoa batted distant the archetypal and utilized a footwear prevention to contradict a breakaway.

The sixth-place Galaxy volition big LAFC (9-12-6, 33 points) connected Sunday, the last crippled earlier the planetary break.

The apical 7 teams successful the league volition suffice for the playoffs.

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