Galaxy keep ideal record in CONCACAF Champions League

“That obviously had a big impact on the game”.

Comunicaciones, which is making its Group D bow in Tuesday night’s match at StubHub Center, sent 11 players to last month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup, 10 on Guatemala’s roster, and that forced it to conduct most of its preseason preparations without its most important players.

The Guatemala City powerhouse has the credentials – six straight Liga Nacional titles (and 31 in all), five CCL appearances and an enviable record (including a share of the 1978 championship, two second- and two third-place finishes) in 19 editions of the CONCACAF Champions’ Cup, the current competition’s predecessor.

The Galaxy has outscored its first two Champions League opponents by a combined scored of 10-1. “To start 2-0 down that quickly against a team like the Galaxy is a very hard situation, so we leave here with a bitter feeling”.

Robbie Keane, who entered the game as a second-half substitute made his presence felt with an assist and two goals (87th and 89th) in 45 minutes. “We were going to rotate a few players”.

Galaxy began their campaign with a dominant 5-1 victory over Trinidad and Tobago’s Central FC last August. 6 and they are looking to have a repeat performance against Comunicaciones. Gyasi (Zardes) has logged a lot of minutes, and we wanted to give him a little bit of a break. With the game out of reach, Keane added goals in the 87th and 89th minute to add to his CCL goals tally. Then in the 9th minute, Alan Gordon capitalized on a poor first touch from goalkeeper Juan Parades, collecting the ball in space and eluding Parades’ outstretched challenge before passing the ball into an empty net. Dos Santos went the full 90 minutes and thrived in the playmaker role.

On the other hand, Los Angeles will undoubtedly rely on their proven strike force of Dos Santos and Robbie Keane should the need for goals ever arise. “Tough conditions, so that’s good to have but we still have our work cut out for us”. The Galaxy next play David Villa, Andrea Pirlo, Frank Lampard and co.as LA takes on NYCFC in a nationally televised match noon Sunday at a sold out StubHub Center.