LA Galaxy 2020 player postmortem: Ethan Zubak

Photo by Shaun Clark/Getty ImagesAfter a cup of coffee with the LA Galaxy first team in 2019, Ethan Zubak returned for his second season in 2020, and became a surprise of sorts during a difficult season.

Zubak had eased into the professional game and the tall striker was a regular scorer for Los Dos in the USL Championship. But with the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2019 and Chicharito in 2020, would the Homegrown product get any real playing time?

In 2020, he sure did, becoming a surprise regular in Guillermo Barros Schelotto’s lineup, and notching a couple goals along the way.

Here are Zubak’s stats in 2020:

So why did Zubak become a starter in 2020? Was he a dominant forward who could not…