CARSON — Before the start of the CONCACAF Champions Cup series against Sporting San Miguelito, Galaxy coach Greg Vanney credited the Panamanian club for being tough to break down.
He was certainly onto something, or maybe that speaks more to where his club is in the early days of a new season.
After a 1-1 draw in the opening leg in Panama on Feb. 19, Sporting San Miguelito came into Dignity Health Sports Park needing a goal or two to create some nervous moments for the Galaxy.
All the Galaxy needed was a scoreless draw to advance to the Round of 16 and that’s what they came away with in front of 11,603. To borrow a popular phrase from the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the Galaxy survived and advanced.
“I think we were expecting to buy a few goals tonight, get some confidence there, but you know, a clean sheet is a clean sheet,” Galaxy defender John Nelson said. “We advance and that’s the most important thing.”
The Galaxy will face Mount Pleasant FC from Jamaica, the CONCACAF Caribbean Cup champion, in a two-leg Round of 16 series next month. The Galaxy will host the first leg on March 11 and travel to Jamaica on March 19.
The Galaxy nearly had a first-half breakthrough on Gabriel Pec’s finish in the 34th minute on Wednesday, but in the build-up Joseph Paintsil was ruled to have been in an offside position, negating the goal.
As expected, the Galaxy dominated possession against the low-block sitting San Miguelito club, but the hosts only managed one shot on goal in the first half and finished with just three in the game. The Galaxy finished with 11 corner kicks.
“They are physical at the right times, when you get them in the one-on-one situations. I thought guys were good defending, even in combinations,” Vanney said. “I thought their guys, stayed close together for the most part, so they were close enough to help each other if anything broke down.
“They were really committed, you could see to the defending aspect and was like if our chance comes, we’ll try to take it and if it doesn’t, we’re going to stay together and we were committed to that in the long haul.”
The Galaxy’s away goal in the first leg gave them the tiebreaker heading into Wednesday’s second leg.
There was a late-game dust-up involving both teams that ended with Galaxy forward Matheus Nascimento receiving a red card, meaning he will sit out the first leg against Mount Pleasant.
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