{"id":640510,"date":"2026-03-08T08:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/640510\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:11:28","slug":"match-report-10-man-galaxy-fall-to-rapids-for-first-loss-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/640510\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: 10-Man Galaxy\u00a0Fall to Rapids for\u00a0First Loss of the Season\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COMMERCE CITY (March 7, 2026) \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The LA Galaxy (1\u20111\u20111, 4 points) fell 4\u20131 to Western Conference foe Colorado Rapids (2\u20110\u20111, 6 points) at Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado.\u00a0After entering halftime down 1\u20130, the Galaxy pulled level when Jo\u00e3o Klauss met a back\u2011post cross with a well\u2011placed header, marking his third straight\u00a0MLS regular season\u00a0match on the scoresheet to open his Galaxy career. Colorado then took advantage of their extra man, pulling away following the red card shown to Gabriel Pec.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>COL\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Darren\u00a0Yapi\u00a0(Paxton\u00a0Aaronson),\u00a023rd\u00a0minute:<\/strong>\u00a0Yapi\u00a0drove into the box following a long\u00a0counter-attacking run\u00a0down the left side of the pitch and pinpointed a left-footed shot into the bottom right corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>LA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jo\u00e3o Klauss\u00a0(Gabriel Pec),\u00a056th minute:<\/strong>\u00a0After sustained pressure following a corner kick, Gabriel Pec floated a cross to the back post, where Jo\u00e3o Klauss rose to head home the 1\u20131 equalizer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>COL \u2013 Alexis\u00a0Manyoma\u00a0(Darren\u00a0Yapi), 76th minute:<\/strong>\u00a0Yapi\u00a0received the ball on the right side of the box and squared a pass into the center, where\u00a0Manyoma\u00a0arrived to score and put the Rapids ahead 2\u20131. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>COL\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rafael Navarro, 85th\u00a0minute:<\/strong>\u00a0Novak\u00a0Mi\u0107ovi\u0107\u00a0parried Keegan\u00a0Rosenberry\u2019s\u00a0shot, but Navarro reacted quickest, pouncing on the rebound and tapping it in to put the Rapids up 3\u20131.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>COL \u2013 Rafael Navarro (Wayne Frederick), 89th\u00a0minute:<\/strong>\u00a0Frederick intercepted a pass deep in the LA half, and Navarro picked up\u00a0possession\u00a0and hit a shot into the top corner to extend Colorado\u2019s\u00a0lead\u00a0to 4\u20131.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jo\u00e3o Klauss scored his fourth goal of the MLS campaign in the 56th\u00a0minute,\u00a0officially marking his third consecutive league match on the scoresheet.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Erik Thommy made his LA Galaxy debut as a second-half substitute in the 71st\u00a0minute of the contest.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mauricio Cuevas made his 2026 MLS Regular Season debut as a second-half substitute in tonight\u2019s match, replacing Joseph Paintsil in the 50th\u00a0minute due to injury.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gabriel\u00a0Pec was\u00a0dismissed from the match\u00a0after being shown a second yellow\u00a0in the 60th\u00a0minute. The\u00a0subsequent\u00a0red card shown was\u00a0both\u00a0the first as a member of the\u00a0Galaxy for\u00a0Pec, and the first of his professional career.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The LA Galaxy will return home for the first leg of the club\u2019s Round of 16 match in the 2026\u00a0Concacaf\u00a0Champions Cup against Mount\u00a0Pleasant FA on Wednesday,\u00a0March 11\u00a0(6:30 p.m. PT, FS2 &amp; TUDN).\u00a0The team returns to MLS Regular Season play on Saturday,\u00a0Mar.\u00a014\u00a0at\u00a06:30 p.m. PT (Apple TV) against\u00a0Sporting Kansas City\u00a0at Dignity Health Sports Park. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Match:<\/strong>\u00a0LA Galaxy\u00a0at\u00a0Colorado Rapids \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong>:\u00a0Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods Park;\u00a0Commerce City, CO\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weather<\/strong>: Clear and\u00a042\u00b0F<\/p>\n<p>COL:\u00a0Darren\u00a0Yapi\u00a0(Paxton\u00a0Aaronson),\u00a023\u2019\u00a0<br \/>LA:\u00a0Jo\u00e3o Klauss\u00a0(Gabriel Pec),\u00a056\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COL:\u00a0Alexis\u00a0Manyoma\u00a0(Darren\u00a0Yapi),\u00a076\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COL:\u00a0Rafael Navarro, 85\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COL: Rafael Navarro\u00a0(Wayne Frederick), 89\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Lineups<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/><strong>LA Galaxy:<\/strong>\u00a0GK Novak\u00a0Mi\u0107ovi\u0107; D\u00a0Juli\u00e1n\u00a0Aude\u00a0(John Nelson 81\u2019), D Maya Yoshida, D Jakob Glesnes, D Miki Yamane\u00a0(Lucas Sanabria); M Edwin\u00a0Cerrillo, M Elijah Wynder, M Marco Reus\u00a0(Erik Thommy, 71\u2019); F Joseph Paintsil\u00a0(Mauricio Cuevas,\u00a050\u2019), F Gabriel Pec, F Jo\u00e3o Klauss\u00a0(Matheus\u00a0Nascimento, 71\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>Substitutes not used:\u00a0JT\u00a0Marcinkowski, Harbor Miller, Justin\u00a0Haak, Ruben Ramos Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colorado Rapids<\/strong>:\u00a0GK\u00a0Nicolas\u00a0Defreitas-Hansen;\u00a0D\u00a0Jackson Travis,\u00a0D\u00a0Lucas Herrington,\u00a0D\u00a0Rob Holding,\u00a0D\u00a0Reggie Cannon\u00a0(Keegan\u00a0Rosenberry, 65\u2019);\u00a0M\u00a0Hamzat\u00a0Ojediran\u00a0(Connor Ronan, 58\u2019)\u00a0(Alexis\u00a0Manyoma, 68\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Josh\u00a0Atencio\u00a0(Wayne Frederick, 58\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Paxten\u00a0Aaronson;\u00a0F\u00a0Darren\u00a0Yapi,\u00a0F\u00a0Dante Sealy\u00a0(Ted\u00a0Ku-DiPietro, 58\u2019),\u00a0F\u00a0Rafael Navarro\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>Substitutes\u00a0not used:\u00a0Zack\u00a0Campagnolo, Noah Cobb, Miguel Navarro, Alex Harris<\/p>\n<p>LA:\u00a0Gabriel Pec\u00a0(caution)\u00a045+1\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LA: Gabriel Pec (caution, dismissal) 60\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LA:\u00a0Jakob Glesnes\u00a0(caution)\u00a088\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Referee:\u00a0Allen Chapman\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Referees:\u00a0Chris\u00a0Wattam, Stefan\u00a0Tanaka-Freundt\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fourth Official:\u00a0Ricardo Fierro\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All statistics contained in this box score are unofficial\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>LA Galaxy Postgame\u00a0Top\u00a0Quotes<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>LA Galaxy Head Coach Greg Vanney<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the game-changing\u00a0red\u00a0card:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGabe got into a situation where he was\u00a0chasing\u00a0and he\u00a0has to\u00a0know\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0on a yellow card and he\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0take that kind of risk and that kind of tackle. He has to keep running and run the guy into\u00a0a one\u00a0vs\u00a0two and we can recover the ball.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0got to make a better decision because the\u00a0decision becomes a second yellow and\u00a0that\u00a0becomes\u00a0we lose all momentum.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the\u00a0outlook on\u00a0this season despite tonight\u2019s\u00a0scoreline:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at New York City, looking at Charlotte and looking at tonight, for large stretches of those games we defended really well,\u00a0again, I think we attacked really well\u00a0in the\u00a0Charlotte\u00a0game, I thought we\u00a0were nice and controlled by and large tonight\u00a0and we were creating really good chances and I think there was more there for us to take.\u00a0We\u00a0have to\u00a0remember that the last twenty minutes, and while it hurt and we took a lot of goals,\u00a0its\u00a0not\u00a0the twenty minutes for us to focus on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the positives in the first sixty minutes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I thought our defensive shape and structure\u00a0was\u00a0good.\u00a0I think, you know, they&#8217;ve evolved over with the new coach in possession, they&#8217;ve got their pivots really close, they&#8217;re very calm on the ball, and because of that, they made good choices with the ball and they&#8217;re competent in possession, but I just didn&#8217;t think they were hurting us at all.\u00a0And so I thought our patience, our decisions, we were starting to understand how to get pressure to them, who to release and where to release from, and I felt like that was what was gaining, adding some momentum for us, especially as we got into the second half.\u00a0So,\u00a0I thought we defended well.\u00a0I thought some of our attacking moments were\u00a0good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>LA Galaxy\u00a0Defender Jakob Glesnes<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, it was a tough game for me personally.\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0never fun to see 4 goals in a game like this.\u00a0We have to get better\u00a0at finishing\u00a0the games with 11 guys.\u00a0On away games like this,\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0tough to get points in,\u00a0especially\u00a0the first point, and then\u00a0we&#8217;re\u00a0down 1-0.\u00a0I felt like we had momentum in the second half when we scored the goal. But, when\u00a0we&#8217;re\u00a0down to 10 men, you know,\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0going to\u00a0be tough.\u00a0We are trying to survive out there, but then when they get\u00a02 and 3, then I feel like we have to stop the bleeding because then the game is\u00a0almost\u00a0already finished.\u00a0We have one less guy\u00a0and\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0going to\u00a0be tough, so\u00a0we\u00a0have to\u00a0find a way to not concede anymore,\u00a0because\u00a0conceding\u00a04 goals is too much.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the lessons he can take from tonight:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s\u00a0not fun to just chase the ball, but again\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0better to just let it play around us and just kill the game off. It is not a good feeling to sit here now after conceding 4 goals, especially like, we have been really good in the first games and now, probably people out there are saying like,\u00a0\u2018OK, are we back like to\u00a0conceding a lot of goals again\u2019\u00a0but again, we are the people that\u00a0can change it and we have shown that we can do it in the two first games, so we just have to get back on track there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the new and exciting feeling around the Galaxy this season:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u00a0can&#8217;t\u00a0talk too much about the past because I\u00a0haven&#8217;t\u00a0been here before now, but from what I have seen now,\u00a0in the whole preseason,\u00a0and what we have been doing up to now has\u00a0been\u00a0really good.\u00a0So\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0really excited for\u00a0what&#8217;s\u00a0to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMMERCE CITY (March 7, 2026) \u2013\u00a0The LA Galaxy (1\u20111\u20111, 4 points) fell 4\u20131 to Western Conference foe Colorado&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":640511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,32154,50,10426],"class_list":{"0":"post-640510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-match-report","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-press-release"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116192548262011802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}