All effort and no ball sums up the entire Galaxy-United match.

We always miss players when they are away, but we could have won the game at the end of the day. I don't think we didn't play well because of missing Landon. – David Beckham

The only one good thing about tonight is that we lost these games at home last year.

Chad Barrett scores his first gol for the Galaxy after astrally projecting his spirit into Chicago's attack causing open gol misses while he pounded his chance home.

It took until the (league-most) seventh game played but at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, IL, the LA Galaxy finally got a second gol from a striker, finally got more than one gol in a game, and finally got the full three points from a game in this 4800-mile road trip.

Edson. Edson. Come back.

Edson Buddle, How Do I Miss Thee?

How do I miss thee? Let me count the ways
I miss thee to the depth and breadth and height
Chad Barrett's shots do miss with all his might.
The ends of Becks' crosses very well placed
I miss thee as you did speedily race.

Leonardo scores his first MLS gol off a Beckham free kick, sealing a 1-0 victory over Philadelphia Union

In the words of @mattyhuffine's Twitter stream: "#LAGALAXY win with 10 men in what turned out to be more of a card game than a soccer match."

Right?

Or as my favorite futbol curmudgeon, Grahame Jones, put it in today's LA Times, "[R]eferee Paul Ward, .