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Galaxy Blast New England 5-1

July 17, 2014 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
New England Revolution News Release


CARSON, Calif. - The New England Revolution suffered a 5-1 loss on the road to the LA Galaxy Wednesday night at StubHub Center behind a two-goal, two-assist performance from LA's Robbie Keane and a two-goal performance from Gyasi Zardes.

LA got on the board in the 10th minute and pushed the lead to 2-0 in the 18th minute, before the Revs pulled within one goal with a Lee Nguyen penalty kick in the 38th minute. But the Galaxy re-claimed the two-goal lead three minutes after the half, and added a pair of unassisted goals in the 75th and 78th minutes to round out the scoring.

New England (7-9-2, 23 pts.) went down to 10 men in the 29th minute when A.J. Soares was shown a straight red card for a midfield tackle on LA's Juninho. Soares will now miss Saturday's game at Dallas while serving a one-game suspension.

The LA (7-3-6, 27 pts.) advantage lasted only eight minutes however, as defender Dan Gargan was shown a straight red for denial of a goal-scoring opportunity in the 36th minute when he took down Teal Bunbury in the box as the forward broke in for a one-on-one with the keeper.

The loss pushed the Revs' winless run to six games. The team's last win came on May 24.

Key Plays

- 8' - Off a quick restart following a foul, Lee Nguyen plays Teal Bunbury in behind the Galaxy defense. Bunbury gets the shot off and past LA keeper Jaime Penedo, but A.J. DeLaGarza clears the attempt off the line | WATCH THE PLAY

- 10' - LA GOAL: Robbie Keane finds the upper right corner of the goal after launching from 20 yards. He and Baggio Husidic played a one-two on the left wing before Keane worked inside to create space and get his shot off | WATCH THE GOAL

- 11' - YELLOW CARD: LA's A.J. DeLaGarza shown yellow for taking down Kelyn Rowe along the right side | WATCH THE PLAY

- 15' - LA's Gyasi Zardes picks up a pass over the midfield line and makes the run in on goal, creates space from his defender and tries to shoot on the near post, but NE's Bobby Shuttleworth makes the save | WATCH THE PLAY

- 18' - LA GOAL: Gyasi Zardes finds space inside the near post from 8 yards after Robbie Keane lays off a pass for him after Stefan Ishizaki gets around his defender on the end line and plays the ball back in toward the penalty area | WATCH THE GOAL

- 28' - RED CARD: NE's A.J. Soares shown a straight red card for a tackle on Juninho near midfield | WATCH THE PLAY

- 36' - RED CARD & PENALTY KICK AWARDED: LA's Dan Gargen shown a straight red card denying a goal-scoring opportunity as Teal Bunbury had a one-on-one with the LA keeper and he tackled Bunbury from behind | WATCH THE PLAY

- 38' - NE PENALTY KICK GOAL: Lee Nguyen converts the penalty kick attempt to cut the deficit to 2-1 | WATCH THE GOAL

HALFTIME SCORE: LA Galaxy 2, New England Revolution 1

- 48' - LA GOAL: Gyasi Zardes re-directs Robbie Keane's cross on the doorstep to give LA a 3-1 lead | WATCH THE GOAL

- 51' - YELLOW CARD: LA's Leonardo shown a yellow card for tackling Patrick Mullins as he tried to latch on to a through ball | WATCH THE PLAY

- 56' - NE's Bobby Shuttleworth saves Robbie Keane's tight-angle chip shot from 10 yards | WATCH THE PLAY

- 60' - NE's Kelyn Rowe works his way to the endline and gets off a cross that finds Jerry Bengtson three yards from goal, but LA's Jaime Penedo makes the save

- 65' - NE's Lee Nguyen gets off a rising shot from outside the area after the Revs worked a prolonged possession sequence around the box | WATCH THE PLAY

- 70' - NE's Steve Neumann gets on the end of Lee Nguyen's 50-yard pass over the defense but his turning volley was wide of goal

- 74' - YELLOW CARD: NE's Jerry Bengtson shown yellow for his trip of Juninho near the top of the box | WATCH THE PLAY

- 75' - LA GOAL: Stefan Ishizaki's free kick is deflected by the last man in the wall and finds space over Bobby Shuttleworth | WATCH THE GOAL

- 78' - LA GOAL: Robbie Keane breaks in and gets on the end of a Revs backpass and converts the one-on-one with Bobby Shuttleworth | WATCH THE GOAL

- 82' - YELLOW CARD: LA's Chandler Hoffman shown a yellow card

- 89' - NE's Chris Tierney clears Chandler Hoffman's shot off the line after Bobby Shuttleworth made a save on the initial effort

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