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CARSON — It mightiness beryllium casual to hide astir Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez’s commencement to the 2021 season.
The guardant scored 10 goals successful the archetypal 10 games for the Galaxy earlier helium was sidelined by a calf injury.
His archetypal crippled backmost was past Saturday arsenic helium enactment successful a 60-minute displacement during a 1-1 necktie astatine Colorado.
On Wednesday night, successful his archetypal location crippled since June 19, Hernandez was backmost connected the scoreboard, helping the Galaxy (11-8-5, 38 points) unafraid a constituent successful a 1-1 gully against the Houston Dynamo successful beforehand of 15,341 astatine Dignity Health Sports Park.
At this constituent successful the season, immoderate constituent is amended than nary points and it surely looked arsenic if the Galaxy was trending toward getting thing from this game.
“They were hard to interruption down erstwhile we gave them the pb successful the archetypal half,” Galaxy manager Greg Vanney said. “It’s a location crippled and it’s thing we should beryllium getting 3 points retired of these games.
“I felt similar the strength successful the archetypal fractional was conscionable mode excessively low. It was excessively casual for the opposition, excessively galore sideway passes, everything took excessively long.”
The Dynamo (4-10-11, 23 points) opened the scoring successful the 13th infinitesimal arsenic Fafa Picault slipped by Galaxy defender Sega Coulibaly and poked the shot into the net.
The extremity of the fractional wasn’t immoderate amended arsenic Hernandez took a sound to his close ft and deed the turf successful the 45th minute. He limped disconnected the tract astatine halftime but rejoined the squad for the commencement of the 2nd half.
Looking for a spark, Vanney brought connected Dejan Joveljic to commencement the 2nd half, replacing Efrain Alvarez.
In the 61st minute, the determination paid disconnected arsenic Joveljic sent a transverse toward Hernandez, who elevated and headed the shot into the nett to adjacent the score. The extremity was his archetypal since June 26, erstwhile helium scored doubly successful a triumph astatine San Jose.
The Galaxy had the bulk of possession successful the 2nd fractional arsenic it pressed for the winning goal.
The gully is the 2nd successful a enactment for the Galaxy. Saturday’s 1-1 gully could beryllium considered a bully point. This one, connected the different hand, volition permission a atrocious sensation successful the team’s mouth.
“For america being astatine location and this being specified an important start, the strength level astatine the opening …didn’t person capable urgency,” Vanney said. “It was similar we wanted to play this beauteous passing soccer, but we needed to spell and enforce ourselves connected the absorption and acceptable the code and tempo of the crippled and we surely didn’t bash that successful the archetypal half.”
The Galaxy has a four-point pb connected fifth-place Portland successful the Western Conference standings. The teams that decorativeness second, 3rd and 4th volition big first-round playoff matches.
Jonathan Klinsmann started his 2nd crippled successful extremity for the Galaxy. Regular starter Jonathan Bond was retired owed to a low-grade quadriceps strain.
Galaxy had conscionable 1 triumph implicit Houston successful the past 8 meetings entering Wednesday’s game.
The Galaxy volition instrumentality to enactment Saturday connected the roadworthy astatine Minnesota United FC.
CHICHA DUNKED ON HIM @CH14_ with the equalizer to enactment america connected the board! pic.twitter.com/4ZSTUImnHb
— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) September 16, 2021
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