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LA Galaxy Postgame Notes: LA Galaxy 3, Toronto FC 5 - Saturday, September 15, 2018

Published on September 15, 2018 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
LA Galaxy News Release


Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018 - 4:30 p.m. PT

2018 MLS Regular Season

BMO Field - Toronto, Canada

Scoring Summary:

TOR - Victor Vazquez (Assisted by Gregory van der Wiel) 5'

TOR - Jozy Altidore (Assisted by Jonathan Osorio) 16'

TOR - Sebastian Giovinco (Assisted by Gregory van der Wiel) 36'

LA - Zlatan Ibrahimović (Assisted by Jonathan dos Santos) 43'

LA - Ola Kamara (Assisted by Jonathan dos Santos) 54'

LA - Rolf Feltscher (Assisted by Ashley Cole) 58'

TOR - Jonathan Osorio (Assisted by Marco Delgado) 75'

TOR - Jay Chapman 90'+4'

Misconduct Summary:

LA - Jorgen Skjelvik (caution) 24'

TOR - Jonathan Osorio (caution) 28'

TOR - Nick Hagglund (caution) 53'

TOR - Justin Morrow (caution) 58'

LA - Dave Romney (caution) 68'

TOR - Jozy Altidore (caution) 79'

LA - Zlatan Ibrahimović (caution) 82'

LA - Jonathan dos Santos (caution) 90'

LA - Emmanuel Boateng (caution) 90'+3

Lineups:

LA Galaxy: David Bingham; Rolf Feltscher, Dave Romney, Jorgen Skjelvik (Michael Ciani HT), Ashley Cole; Romain Alessandrini, Bradford Jamieson IV (Baggio Husidic 69'), Perry Kitchen (Emmanuel Boateng 78'), Jonathan dos Santos, Ola Kamara; Zlatan Ibrahimović

Substitutions not used: Justin Vom Steeg, Servando Carrasco, Ariel Lassiter, Chris Pontius.

TOTAL SHOTS: 10; SHOTS ON GOAL: 6; FOULS: 15; OFFSIDE: 4; CORNER KICKS: 3; SAVES: 3.

Toronto FC: Alex Bono; Gregory van der Wiel, Eriq Zavaleta, Nick Hagglund, Justin Morrow; Marco Delgado, Michael Bradley, Jonathan Osorio; Sebastian Giovinco, Victor Vasquez (Lucas Janson 66'), Jozy Altidore (Jay Chapman 80').

Substitutes not used: Clint Irwin, Jason Hernandez, Ashtone Morgan, Tossaint Ricketts, Ryan Telfer.

TOTAL SHOTS: 17; SHOTS ON GOAL: 8; FOULS: 10; OFFSIDE: 3; CORNER KICKS: 5; SAVES: 3.

Referee: Nima Saghafi

Assistant Referees: AR1 (bench): Jason White; AR2 (opposite): Andrew Bigelow

4th Official: Silviu Petrescu

VAR: Guido Gonzales

Attendance: 30,799

NOTES:

In their 29th match of the 2018 MLS Regular Season, the LA Galaxy fell to Toronto FC 5-3 on the road at BMO Field in Toronto, Canada.

With the result, the Galaxy are now 10-11-8 on the season with 38 points with 54 goals scored.

With five games remaining in the 2018 MLS Regular Season, the Galaxy are in eighth place in the MLS Western Conference standings.

This year on the road, the Galaxy are now 4-7-4.

Against Toronto, LA is now 6-5-6 all-time.

Forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his 500th career goal between his club and country.

After scoring in 43rd minute against Toronto FC, Zlatan joined Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo and FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi as the only active players to have scored 500 senior goals for club and country.

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Forward Ola Kamara scored his 10th goal of the 2018 MLS campaign, making this his third straight season of a double digit goal scoring tally in MLS.

Defender Rolf Feltscher scored his first MLS goal in the 58th minute in his 11th start this season.

Midfielder Jonathan dos Santos assisted two Zlatan's and Kamara's goals tonight, tallying seven assists and two goals this season in MLS.

LA Galaxy players Jonathan dos Santos and Rolf Feltscher both returned from international duty to the gameday 18-man roster after featuring for Mexico and Venezuela respectively.

In his first game as Interim Head Coach, Dominic Kinnear trotted out a different Starting XI than the previous match against RSL, with Romain Alessandrini and Bradford Jamieson IV starting in place of Michael Ciani and Servando Carrasco.

LA Galaxy goalkeeper David Bingham and defender Jorgen Skjelvik have started in every MLS match for LA this season. They are the only two Galaxy players to start in each match.

LA Galaxy Interim Head Coach Dominic Kinnear is now 166-136-134 during his 15-year coaching career in Major League Soccer.

LA Galaxy will now return home to face Seattle Sounders at StubHub Center on Sunday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. PT.

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