The Los Angeles Galaxy return home after a successful road swing.  Who would have guessed this for the Galaxy? They improved their 2010 Major League Soccer (MLS) record to 7-0-1.  The Galaxy played 3 games in eight days and got 9 points.  With 8 matches unbeaten, they are winning from the defense, from the backline out.  LA managed to get 22 points out of a possible 24 points on the year.

In the last match on Saturday, May 8^th at Qwest Field, the LA Galaxy continued their march up the Western Conference with a convincing win, 4-0 against the Seattle Sounders.  LA went to Seattle where they had never won at Qwest Field.  Indeed, they shocked the 37,000 fans who came to watch their beloved Sounders.

For the first 20 minutes into the game, Seattle was aggressive and they had the fans behind them.  They seemed to have better possessions and scoring opportunities, but did not take advantage.  All four players who scored for the Galaxy recorded their first goal of the season.

The Galaxy took the lead in the 2nd minute.  Galaxy Forward Jovan Kirovski took a cross ball from Michael Stephens and blazed a right foot cross pass veteran goalkeeper Kasey Keller.  Kirvoski made his first start of the season.

Although the Galaxy were in front, they should not be happy with how the 1st half went. They were off to a slow start, but brought their ‘A’ game in the 2nd half.  The Galaxy  came out with a lot more confidence and scored 3 goals.

Galaxy Defender Omar Gonzalez header off the cross bar and in the box on the 52nd minute was his 2nd career goal, with an assist to Landon Donovan.

The Galaxy got on the board again in the 57^th minute, with a diving header into the box by Defended Todd Dunivant.

Finally, Galaxy ‘skipper’ Landon Donovan scored in the 67th minute on an Edson Buddle cross-pass to the Sounder’s box.

For the 1st month of the season, it was all Buddle, now the Galaxy have scoring from the back-line — Jovan Kirovski (FWD), Omar Gonzalez (DEF), Todd Dunivant (DEF).

Galaxy Goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts made a season-high seven saves in the game for LA and now has six clean sheets in eight games thus far in the season.

Colorado Rapids Wednesday, May 5th:

Galaxy Head Coach Bruce Arena made three changes to the team that defeated Colorado 1-0 on Wednesday night, bringing in Bryan Jordan, Jovan Kirovski and Chris Klein for their first starts of the season. They replaced A.J. DeLaGarza, who missed the game because of back spasms, Juninho and Alan Gordon.

Next up for the Galaxy:

The game kicks off at 7:30pm Saturday night (May 15th )  against Toronto FC at The Home Depot Center, Carson, California .