Djordje Mihailovic and Calvin Harris scored targets in a four-minute stretch of the primary half and the Colorado Rapids earned a 2-0 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy on Wednesday at Commerce Metropolis, Colo.
After ready out a two-hour climate delay on the outset, the Rapids (7-8-4, 25 factors) ended a three-game dropping streak. Colorado scored a number of targets for the primary time in its previous 10 video games.
Rapids goalkeeper Nico Hansen made 5 saves for a 3rd shutout in his sixth consecutive begin instead of Zack Steffen (knee).
The Galaxy (1-13-5, 8 factors) noticed their defensive woes proceed. The defending MLS champions have collapsed below the load of key accidents and a reworked roster to permit an MLS-high 41 targets this season. Their level complete and minus-23 objective differential are also the league’s worst.
Los Angeles has allowed a number of targets in six of its previous eight video games, together with a seven-goal bombardment by the New York Crimson Bulls in a Might 10 shutout defeat.
Novak Micovic, who has changed John McCarthy in objective, made two saves for the Galaxy.
Mihailovic opened the scoring within the twenty fourth minute when he delivered his team-leading eighth of the season. Sam Vines despatched a left-footed cross into the penalty space, and Mihailovic headed residence the objective between two Galaxy defenders.
The rating got here after Colorado was shut out in consecutive residence video games in opposition to Austin FC and Orlando Metropolis.
Harris made it 2-0 within the twenty eighth minute when he collected the ball on the precise facet of the penalty space and fired a right-footed shot simply contained in the left put up. It was his second of the season.
Harris practically had one other objective within the fifty fifth minute, however his left-footed shot, after slicing by the penalty space, rebounded off the left put up.
Los Angeles was shut out for the eighth time in MLS play this season.
–Area Stage Media
