Minnesota, San Jose exit Open Cup; LA Galaxy take El Trafico over LAFC

Minnesota, San Jose exit Open Cup; LA Galaxy take El Trafico over LAFC | Sportson



Only one MLS team has won more regular-season games since LAFC joined the league in 2018. However, none of those victories have come at Dignity Health Sports Park, the team's most frequent travel venue.

LAFC will make the short drive to Carson again Wednesday to face the Galaxy in a match that will have no impact on the MLS standings but is of massive importance everywhere else. The game will mark the first meeting of the neighborhood rivals in the U.S. Open Cup, the oldest soccer competition in the country, and there will be more at stake than bragging rights since the winner will go on to the tournament quarterfinals and the loser goes home.

“All my teammates, coaching staff, know that no matter if it's in the league, or Open Cup or a friendly, these kinds of games [are] special,” LAFC midfielder Ilie Sánchez said. “It's especially important for us knowing that tomorrow is either you win or you're out.”

For all its success elsewhere, LAFC has won just three of the first 14 El Tráficos, as the inter-city derby is known. And the team is 0-5-2 in the seven meetings in Carson, including a 2-1 loss in MLS play in April.

The teams have gone in different directions since: LAFC (8-3-2) has lost just two of seven MLS games and has the league’s best record while the Galaxy has won just twice and were booed off the field after their last two home games, which they lost by a combined 6-1.

That could all be forgotten Wednesday with a home win in the rivalry game, even if it doesn’t help the team in the standings.

“This is the perfect way to rebound. You want your home to be your fortress but lately it hasn’t been,” Galaxy defender Raheem Edwards said.

Added Galaxy coach Greg Vanney: “First and foremost, in any derby it’s a competition. It’s all based on emotion. There’s bragging rights. There’s things in there that the fans see as hugely important, that the players see as hugely important.

  

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