LA Galaxy Fan Blog

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Rangers FC Beat LA Galaxy in a Snoozer

The Scottish powerhouse, Rangers FC, beat the Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 last night at the Home Depot Center.

Last night's international friendly with the LA Galaxy taking on Rangers FC appeared exciting during the national anthem (see video below), but it quickly ended up to be a snoozer.

The Ranger FC team was full of divers - not the snorkeling kind either, but the Christiano Ronaldo kind. If you fart they'd fall over. But hey, it worked because the center referee is a Glasgow native and make all of the calls for the visitors.

The Galaxy started their second string (not counting Cobi) and they played like an AYSO team. A bunch of kicking and praying.

Except for the Rangers FC #7 (below), the visitors weren't all that impressive either.

The Galaxy had a few final chances in the second half, like this (video below) corner kick from Santino Quaranta, but even our great Landon Donovan was unable to get the service he needed from the back to make things happen.

The Ranger's goal was a a gimme as our defender Kyle Veris took a swing to clear the ball out, missed it, then allowed the Ranger's forward to boot in right in. Sorry Scotsmen, not that impressed!

Some Footnotes:

I can't seem to understand why Frank Yallop continues to give as much playing time to Nate Jaqua as he does. Nate seems too slow and awkward to be playing forward or for the LAG at all.

Labels: Los Angeles Galaxy, MLS, Rangers FC, Santino Quaranta

5 Comments:

At 2:53 AM, Charly said...: Hi,

So The LAG's level is similar than Rangers's level which is a medium level team in Europe ??

That's possible.
At 8:27 AM, lethalsoccer said...: Believe it or not, I think good teams within the MLS have definitely stepped things up and yes the LAG was as good as the Rangers FC. Although neither team fielded their first team right off the bat, but they did towards the end.
At 9:22 AM, bubby said...: Nice video. I hate divers too, though Ronaldo is still the best player in the world
At 2:31 PM, Anonymous said...: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

-CMpunk
At 3:45 PM, Mike said...: Typical yanks, trying to make out that they're as good as everyone else. Don't blame your loss because of diving. Rangers don't dive, and for the record, the Los Angeles team was a poor side who didn't even match up to the second-string Rangers team. If LAG came to Ibrox in Scotland, then the bookies would have a 5/1 odds on that it would be a 5 goals to nil romp. Sorry guys, but thats the way it is. Major League Soccer is falling behind, and has been falling even further the last few seasons.