MLS: MAPP'S LAST-MINUTE GOAL SINKS GALAXY L.A. FALLS BELOW .500 WITH LOSS TO CHICAGO CHICAGO 2, GALAXY 1.Byline: Larry Morgan Staff Writer CARSON - The Galaxy was home for the first time in more than a month, and players were feeling better about themselves after collecting two impressive victories away from home. It all gave way to more frustration Sunday at Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box Center. Chicago's Justin Mapp Justin Mapp (born October 18, 1984 in Brandon, Mississippi) is an American soccer midfielder, who currently plays for the Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer. Mapp graduated from the Bradenton Academy in 2001 and signed with MLS as a Project-40 player. He was drafted by D.C. , on an individual effort more than two minutes into stoppage time stoppage time Noun Chiefly Brit same as injury time , scored his third goal of the season to give the Fire (13-10-3) a 2-1 victory over the Galaxy (10-11-5) in front of an announced sellout crowd of 27,000. Sunday's finish was eerily similar to other last-second shockers at HDC (Hard Disk Controller) See disk controller. HDC - Disk Controller this season: New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. scored well into stoppage time to salvage a 1-1 tie July 4, and Freddy Adu's stoppage-time goal gave D.C. United D.C. United is a professional soccer club located in Washington, D.C. that participates in Major League Soccer. The club's official nickname is the "Black-and-Red" and home uniforms are black and white with accents of red. The team's name refers to Washington, D.C. a 1-0 victory July 23. Now this. ``This one's the worst,'' said Galaxy forward Herculez Gomez, who scored his fifth goal of the year in the 24th minute and, with better fortune, might have had two more. ``I thought we were finally getting around the corner and showing everybody we're a team that can win this. ``To let that one go in in the last second is unacceptable at any level.'' Mapp, a 20-year-old midfielder on the cusp of the U.S. national team, took control of the ball outside the Galaxy box, raced past Cobi Jones (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ), Pete Vagenas and Tyrone Marshall, then let fly with a left-footer that barely eluded diving Galaxy goalkeeper Kevin Hartman. ``We played to win and created enough opportunities to win,'' Galaxy coach Steve Sampson said. ``We didn't handle the last few minutes well at all. ``They have to respect the game and the opponent a bit more in those kinds of situations. Foul a player at a key time. ... That would have been one of those moments, even at the expense of taking a yellow (card), even at the expense of taking a red. ``Just poor decisions, and we need to make very good ones.'' Larry Morgan, (626) 962-8811, Ext. 2272 larry.morgan(at)sgvn.com CAPTION(S): Photo: Chris Rolfe leaps onto fellow rookie Chad Barrett after givin g the Chicago Fire an early lead against the Galaxy. Matt A. Brown/Associated Press |
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