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Galaxy winless through 13 games after giving up 2-goal lead in Philadelphia

May 15, 2025

CHESTER, Pa. — The frustration continues for the Galaxy.

Tai Baribo scored two second-half goals, including the game-winner in stoppage time, and the Philadelphia Union rallied to beat the Galaxy, 3-2, on Wednesday night.

The Galaxy (0-9-4, 4 points) continued the worst start by a defending champion in MLS history despite Diego Fagúndez becoming the eighth player in league history to reach 75 goals and 75 assists in a career.

“I think everybody sees how frustrating it is,” Fagúndez said. “You go up 2-0 in Philly which is a hard place to play, and I thought we were doing so well in the first half. Come into the break and in five minutes, the whole game changes for us and then we try to hold off as much as we can and we gave up a late goal. It’s a hard one to swallow. Frustrating. Things are not going our way. We’re trying so hard to give stuff back to our fans, to ourselves. It’s just hard.”

Baribo scored in the sixth minute of stoppage time after tying the match at 2-2 with a goal in the 50th minute for the Union (8-3-2, 26 points), who are on a five-match unbeaten run. Baribo has a league-leading 10 goals on the season.

Defender Mauricio Cuevas scored for the first time this season and the second time in 31 career appearances to give the Galaxy the lead in the 31st minute. Fagúndez scored his second goal this season and the 75th of his career for a 2-0 lead in the 37th. Marco Reus collected assists on both scores and has three on the season. Cuevas notched his first assist this season and the second of his career. Fagúndez has 76 career assists.

“I’ve been saying if we score first, games change, and today I thought we did that really well in the first half,” Fagúndez said. “Mauricio scores a nice goal and we had a couple more chances to score another one. I was able to score one. It was feeling really good for us. It was one of those feelings that you’re like, okay, maybe this is it. Maybe we break the ice now and at a hard place to play. Then you get punished in five minutes and it’s tough.”

Philadelphia tied it in the first five minutes of the second half. Jacob Glesnes used his head to score off a corner kick by Kai Wagner in the 48th minute for the Union’s first goal.

Homegrown goalkeeper Andrew Rick made his 10th career start and did not have a save for the Union.

John McCarthy had four saves as the Galaxy built a 2-0 lead in the first half and finished with seven.

Philadelphia improved to 1-3-2 all time at home in the Galaxy’s first visit since 2018 and 2-9-3 in the series.

The Galaxy plays hosts to rival LAFC on Sunday at 6 p.m. at Dignity Health Sports Park.

Asked if they can still salvage their season, Fagúndez said they can only focus on one game at a time.

“Thirteen games, it’s tough. But right now we’re taking it a game at a time, and we have our rivals coming to town,” Fagúndez said. “We need to make sure that that game is a win and we put ourselves ahead and we give it our all. We need to show fans the kind of courage and players we want to be. We really need one and I want one as much as everybody else.”

Orange County Register

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