Minnesota United will try to pass a deeply disappointing trait when they host a Los Angeles Galaxy team that finally got their first point this season last weekend.
Minnesota (2-1-1, 7 points) has emerged as a trendy Western Conference election during the first pairs of weeks of the 2025 season. And it looked likely to continue during the first hour plus of last Saturday’s visit to Sporting Kansas City, when Loons stormed to a 3-0 lead.
But Kansas City responded with a furious late rally and did three times in a 13-minute distance to prevent Minnesota from serving its first passing.
“I think everyone woke up with the same feeling, I would say, that disease for how the game ended. But I think the more time that has passed and the more that the feeling has disappeared, we try to focus on the positive from that game,” said Minnesota United manager Eric Ramsay. “I still feel that it is 70 minutes of exactly what we want to see in such a situation. And what happens after is a complete deviation.”
Ramsay will be without four players called for international service, including Tani Oluwaseyi, who did twice against Kansas City.
At the same time, Galaxy’s most important absence has been injured, with Joseph Paintsil who lacked the first four matches of the season with a thigh issue, and last year’s team MVP Riqui Puig still recovered from a broken ACL suffered last year’s Western Conference final.
But Paintsil was able to return on Saturday when the Galaxy (0-3-1, 1 point) tries to build on their 1-1-O-committed on Portland Timbers last weekend.
Christian Ramirez scored his first Galaxy goal on a game created by Mathias Jorgensen to even in the 81st minute. And the galaxy fled after what seemed to be an obvious foul in the penalty area from Emil Garces was not called by referee Lukasz Szpala.
“We work hard as a group to try to put ourselves in positions to get results right now,” said Galaxy Manager Greg Vanney. “And we got some of that game. The end of the game was obviously a little hairy, and yet we got out of it 1-1.”
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