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.

Juninho battles Shalrie Joseph in the Galaxy's 1-0 win at New England on May 28th.

Three games in eight days has become almost routine for the Los Angeles Galaxy this season, and for a few other teams as well, as the schedule makes room for not on the US Open Cup, and the CONCACAF Champions League, but also the CONCACAF Championship, the Gold Cup with the winner getting a slot in the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2013 in Brazil.

Angel gets his second gol of the season in the Galaxy's dismantling of Sporting KC

Apologies for not getting comments on the recent games sooner. I'm traveling on the East Coast and its playing havoc with my blogging schedule. But it has been interesting to note how much my take on Philadelphia is tempered by watching the Kansas City game.

I don't think I've ever been this entertained by a 1-1 draw in MLS since I started watching the league back in 1996 as a half-season ticket holder for DC United. And it's not just because that's the scoreline I predicted yesterday (because it you read me regularly, you know that's basically a fluke).

This post didn't go up on Friday like it was supposed to due to problem with Wordpress. -NHJ

I know this is Friday morning, a time for looking ahead to the next game, not looking back at the previous one, but we never got a review of the FC Dallas match up due to a combination of lame amateur blogging and really heinous back-end problems with the blogging software.

Landon Donovan scores on a penalty kick putting the Portland Timbers down 2-0 in under 10 minutes.

This post title is courtesy of @jrodius (co-host, along with @jguesman, of the always insightful Corner of the Galaxy podcast) who tweeted "If last night's Galaxy game were a movie it would've been Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King.

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.

The Galaxy celebrates Mike Magee's 12th minute gol against DC United

Okay, let's just get this out of the way at the top: Charlie Davies dove like a scuba professional searching for treasure in the Caribbean. He dove like the snout of a pig into the muck of the forest on the search for truffles.

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, .