Vanney urges LA Galaxy to find solutions as winless MLS run continues

Greg Vanney said his LA Galaxy squad indispensable find solutions to halt their winless tally aft they were beaten 1-0 by Sporting Kansas City successful the MLS connected Sunday.

The decisive infinitesimal came successful the 13th infinitesimal erstwhile Galaxy skipper Maya Yoshida turned the shot into his ain nett from Daniel Salloi’s transverse into the box.

Indeed, Kerry Zavagnin’s broadside became the archetypal squad successful MLS past to triumph a lucifer without attempting a changeable connected target.

The Galaxy are disconnected to the worst commencement successful MLS past for a defending MLS Cup champion, picking up conscionable 3 points from their archetypal 11 games of the season.

They had their chances successful the contest, though. Yoshida astir made amends for his earlier mistake with a header earlier Marco Reus struck the crossbar with a free-kick precocious on.

Vanney’s squad ended the contention with an expected goals (xG) full of 1.39 from their 11 shots, but lone 1 of those was connected target.

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Vanney revealed his frustrations aft failing to get their archetypal triumph connected the board, drafting parallels from the 2023 play that are akin to their struggles this term.

The Galaxy went 7 games without a triumph astatine the commencement of the run 2 years agone nether Vanney, picking up their archetypal triumph against Austin FC connected matchday eight.

Vanney was capable to pb his squad to a 13th-placed decorativeness successful the Western Conference, and is hopeful helium tin implicit a akin comeback this clip around.

“There are parallels to a fewer points successful my career, 2023 being 1 of them. Others wherever you get, I don’t privation to accidental a cleanable storm, but you get a bid of events that, erstwhile enactment together, go challenging,” Vanney said.

“And the guys, you know, we’ve got to find solutions wrong of that. On the field, we’ve got to find solutions successful each way. That’s wherefore I accidental each twelvemonth is simply a journey.

“Every twelvemonth is different. It presents caller challenges each azygous year. This twelvemonth has provided plentifulness of them from the commencement aft winning the title and having to wide retired immoderate guys to injuries to show stuff. There’s been plentifulness of things.

“Our occupation present arsenic a corporate group, arsenic a team, [for] everybody, is to find solutions, adjacent erstwhile challenges contiguous themselves. So far, yeah, we haven’t recovered those solutions.

“We’re going to support warring for it and support looking astatine ways to physique our mode retired of it, arsenic we did successful 2023 and different years that I was progressive successful pugnacious years.”