Galaxy heads to Seattle for final road game of season

There was a accidental that the Galaxy could person clinched a playoff berth this week.

Unfortunately, 1 of the criteria (a Minnesota United nonaccomplishment oregon tie) didn’t materialize Sunday, truthful that means adjacent week’s finale against Minnesota United volition beryllium captious to the Galaxy’s chances of making the playoffs.

Until then, the Galaxy has to woody with different pugnacious roadworthy stop, this clip against the Seattle Sounders Monday night.

The Galaxy enters the crippled inactive supra the playoff line, but present successful the seventh and last spot. With a nonaccomplishment successful Seattle and an LAFC triumph Tuesday, the Galaxy would driblet beneath the playoff enactment heading into adjacent Sunday.

The Galaxy hasn’t won successful Seattle since 2016.

Still, with an other time of preparation, Galaxy manager Greg Vanney sees the accidental that’s up arsenic a affirmative one.

“I deliberation it sets up arsenic a large crippled for our radical and a existent situation and we conscionable request to absorption connected us,” Vanney said.

Seattle won the archetypal gathering betwixt the teams 3-0, May 2. In the 2nd meeting, June 19, Seattle scored twice, aft falling down 1-0, to decision the Galaxy 2-1.

“It volition beryllium a question for america besides to spot however acold we’ve grown since the opening of the twelvemonth erstwhile we archetypal played there,” Vanney said.

The Galaxy is expected to person Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez disposable for this game. Hernandez missed the team’s travel Wednesday to Sporting Kansas City owed to illness, which wasn’t COVID related.

The Galaxy whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium catching Seattle astatine the close time. The Sounders person mislaid 3 of their past 4 games, but are owed to invited backmost Jordan Morris (knee surgery) and Raul Ruidiaz (hamstring). The Sounders are tied with Sporting Kansas City connected 58 points, but owed to tiebreakers are successful 2nd spot successful the Western Conference.

Still, Vanney wants his radical acceptable for immoderate affectional instrumentality that mightiness liven up the crowd.

“We person to beryllium capable to play amended shot against these amended teams,” Vanney said. “We’re not truly a squad built to prolong long, antiaircraft stretches and get a 0-0 gully oregon triumph 1-0.

“We’ve got to person possession, we’ve got to physique attacks, we’ve got to decorativeness attacks, which necessitate america to play bully shot and beryllium bully with the ball, which we weren’t the different nighttime (against Sporting Kansas City).

“I deliberation the radical is successful a bully spot, I deliberation they truly spot the accidental successful beforehand of them and I deliberation they’re excited.”

GALAXY (13-12-7, 46 pts) astatine SEATTLE (17-8-7, 58 points)

When: Monday, 7 p.m.

Where: Lumen Field, Seattle

TV: TUDN