Anyone who watched the LA Galaxy’s 1-0 loss to Real Salt Lake on Saturday noticed the road team looked noticeably slow and sluggish out of the gate. While neither team was especially electric all day, and Real Salt Lake had home field advantage and were accustomed to the normal things like the Utah altitude, and the Galaxy have historically had performances in which their low energy essentially doomed them, it turns out there was an extra factor behind the scenes affecting their start.
“Just felt like the game was slow, you know, I thought the guys had about 10 minutes between when we arrived at the stadium and when they had to go out to warm up because of a bus, that was delayed, nobody found it in their hearts to give us a few minutes to get our guys ready.