Cedric Teuchert scored a objective with an help as St. Louis Town SC picked up its first win of the season and prolonged the distress of the protecting champion LA Galaxy with a 3-0 victory Sunday in Carson, California.
Marcel Hartel and Simon Becher additionally scored objectives for St. Louis Town (1-0-2, 5 issues), who discovered the again of the web for the primary time this season after opening with a couple of scoreless attracts. Roman Burki made 8 saves for his 3rd blank sheet in 3 video games.
St. Louis Town is the eleventh workforce in MLS historical past not to permit a objective over their first 3 league video games in a season.
The Galaxy have now not simplest misplaced all 3 MLS video games this season, its 4 immediately to start out 2025 when counting a Concacaf Champions Cup loss closing week to Costa Rica’s CS Herediano. The Galaxy are the primary workforce in MLS historical past to start out a identify protection with 3 consecutive league losses.
Novak Micovic made two saves for the Galaxy (0-3-0, 0 issues), who’ve given up seven general objectives of their 3 MLS defeats thus far this season, whilst scoring as soon as.
The Galaxy offense went at the assault early as Marco Reus hit the correct submit after a deflection from Burki, with Harbor Miller’s shot at the rebound going over the crossbar.
Christian Ramirez had a point-blank shot within the thirty fourth minute for the house facet that once more was once stored by way of Burki.
St. Louis Town took a 1-0 lead simply prior to half-time when Micovic did not care for a nook kick from Hartel and Teuchert wiped clean up a free ball in entrance of the objective.
Simply 4 mins into the second one 1/2, Hartel delivered his personal rating in transition into the highest left nook of the objective off an help from Teuchert.
Once more, the Galaxy simply overlooked scoring a objective within the 83rd minute when Gabriel Pec’s shot from neatly outdoor of the penalty house went simply over the crossbar. St. Louis Town countered straight away as Becher scored in transition lower than a minute later off a lead go from Kyle Hiebert.
The protecting league champions have scored only one objective of their 3 losses this season with out megastar playmaker Riqui Puig and rampaging ahead Joseph Paintsil. Each key elements of closing yr’s workforce are out indefinitely with important accidents, and LA has been not able to compensate although wholesome stars Gabriel Pec and Reus time and again created scoring possibilities in opposition to St. Louis.
