Galaxy seeks first 3-game winning streak of the season

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The Galaxy has had a beardown commencement to this last agelong of the regular season, defeating Portland and Houston.

On Saturday night, it volition effort to bash thing it hasn’t done each play – triumph 3 consecutive games.

The Galaxy volition big FC Dallas successful the penultimate location crippled of the play astatine 7 p.m. astatine Dignity Health Sports Park successful Carson.

“Two weeks ago, earlier the break, we couldn’t adjacent get a triumph successful 9 games, you know, and present we got two,” Galaxy guardant Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez said. “So we request to beryllium precise calm.

“We request to support warring to marque it to playoffs.”

The Galaxy (13-11-6, 45 points) is present up to 5th spot successful the Western Conference standings, but determination isn’t overmuch breathing room. The Galaxy is 1 constituent down fourth-place Portland and 2 points up of seventh-place Vancouver.

The apical 7 teams successful the each league suffice for the MLS Cup Playoffs.

“Winning is ever good,” Galaxy manager Greg Vanney said. “There’s ever a bully emotion that comes retired of that. And present we’ve got to modulation that emotion to beryllium astatine location and to play good and effort to bash it again.”

Wednesday’s triumph was the 100th regular-season coaching triumph for Vanney.

“It’s a peculiar happening to beryllium capable to bash it backmost successful L.A. and successful a nine that benignant of gave maine my start, obviously. And to beryllium present doing that is wonderful,” Vanney said of his milestone victory. “If that was the 1 that clinched the playoffs and got america into benignant of that adjacent signifier of things, I would beryllium happier. But we’re inactive grinding distant astatine that.

“And we’re going to support gathering and hopefully No. 101 oregon 102 volition beryllium the 1 that that seals the woody for america successful the playoffs.”

One happening moving for the Galaxy is FC Dallas has already been eliminated from playoff contention and has conscionable 2 wins since August.

A triumph Saturday would surely get the Galaxy person to the playoffs, which would beryllium big, particularly with pugnacious roadworthy games (at Sporting Kansas City and Seattle) following.

“The guys person believed, the guys are moving hard and … present we’re rewarding ourselves successful these past 2 games by putting the shot successful the nett capable to triumph the game,” Vanney said.

Galaxy apical spenders successful MLS

On Wednesday, the MLS Players Association released the updated players wage usher for each players nether declaration arsenic of Sept. 30.

Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez is the 2nd highest-paid subordinate with a guaranteed compensation of $6 million.

In the archetypal merchandise successful April, the Galaxy had the third-highest payroll, but has present moved to the apical of the league with the highest payroll ($20.32 million).

Summer signees Dejan Joveljic ($612,500), Rayan Raveloson ($855,025), Nikko Hamalainen ($612,500) and defender Sega Coulibaly ($337,000) were added. Julian Araujo ($653,750) and Efrain Alvarez ($612,167) were fixed caller contracts, raising their guaranteed compensations, each contributed successful moving the Galaxy ahead.

The Galaxy has 3 of the league’s 81 players earning astatine slightest $1 million: Kevin Cabral, $1,440,000; Jonathan dos Santos, $2,000,000 and Hernandez.