LA Galaxy snap record winless start to season

CARSON, Calif. -- - Lucas Sanabria scored his archetypal extremity successful MLS, Joseph Paintsil added his archetypal extremity of the play and the LA Galaxy bushed Real Salt Lake 2-0 connected Saturday nighttime to drawback the longest winless streak to commencement a play successful MLS history.

The Galaxy (1-12-4) - the defending MLS Cup champions - were winless successful 16 consecutive and had a minus-23 extremity differential during that span.

Novak Micovic finished with 4 saves and the 23-year-old had his - arsenic good arsenic the Galaxy's - archetypal shutout of the season.

RSL (4-10-3) is winless successful 7 consecutive games dating to a 3-1 triumph astatine San Diego connected April 26.

The 21-year-old Sanabria put distant a one-touch finish - acceptable up perfectly by Matheus Nascimento's provender - into a wide-open nett to unfastened the scoring successful the 17th minute. It was the archetypal extremity publication successful MLS for the Nascimento, a 21-year-old rookie.

Paintsil ran down the near broadside onto a agelong shot played up by Gabrial Pec, chopped wrong to evade a defender adjacent the country of the country and past slipped a changeable wrong the backmost post to marque it 2-0 successful the 55th.

LA is unbeaten (5-0-4) successful 9 consecutive location matches against Real Salt Lake since 2017.

Salt Lake outshot the Galaxy 20-9.

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