Galaxy coach Greg Vanney believes his team played its best game of the season Sunday night. And he might be right.
But if you go by most objective measures, it was a lost night.
On the scoreboard, Sporting Kansas City got late goals from Johnny Russell and Khiry Shelton to post a 2-0 win. In the Western Conference standings, the third-place Galaxy (7-4-0) fell further behind Kansas City and Seattle, which are now tied for first.
And then there were the injuries. The Galaxy lost captain Javier “Chicharito” Hernández, the league’s leading goal scorer, to a calf injury minutes before kickoff at Dignity Health Sports Park, and then Sega Coulibaly limped off with a right abductor injury just before halftime.