St. Louis City 6-2 LA Galaxy: Holse hat-trick inside 21 minutes sets up rout
St. Louis City beat Los Angeles Galaxy 6-2 at Citypark, with Carlo Holse scoring a hat-trick in the first 21 minutes. He struck in the 2nd and 7th minutes, both from Rafael Navarro Leal assists, and completed it in the 21st from a Christopher Durkin pass.
Robert Taylor pulled one back for the Galaxy in the 31st minute, set up by Erik Thommy, but St. Louis scored twice before the break: Navarro Leal converted a penalty in the 45th minute and Lukas MacNaughton made it 5-1 in first-half stoppage time. Navarro Leal added his second, and the sixth, in the 53rd minute from another Durkin assist. Klauss, on as an 11th-minute substitute for Kyogo Furuhashi, scored the Galaxy's second in the 71st minute after Marco Reus came off the bench to set it up.
St. Louis had 63% of the ball and six shots on target from ten attempts, with 2.65 expected goals to the Galaxy's 1.06. The Galaxy were without H. Lozano (hamstring) and R. Puig (knee); St. Louis were missing Celio Pompeu (knee) and K. Hiebert (hip).
The win leaves St. Louis 2nd in the Western Conference on 50 points from 28 games, a point behind Vancouver, and follows a 3-1 win in Los Angeles in July. The Galaxy are 9th in the West on 36 points from 29.
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