LAFC coach Steve Cherundolo has been around long enough to know that it’s not how a team starts a season, but how it finishes one that counts. He need look no further than his own team’s short history for proof.
Three times in the team’s first seven seasons, LAFC was 6-4-3 after 13 games; only once has the team started slower. And just once has it failed to finish well enough to make the playoffs.
Guess what LAFC’s record is after Wednesday’s 4-0 rout of the Seattle Sounders?
The team, like the weather, is once again starting to heat up, with the victory running its unbeaten to six games over the last six weeks.