Zlatan Ibrahimović says it’s time for the LA Galaxy to wake up.
Los Angeles dropped their fourth game in five matches on Saturday when they fell 3-2 to the Houston Dynamo.
Early goals by the Dynamo forced the Galaxy to battle back from deficits twice, only to concede late on a Memo Rodriguez goal in stoppage time. For the fifth time this season, the Galaxy conceded first and needed to chase the game in search of a result, only to fall short.
Sigi Schmid’s squad is now 1-5-0 when allowing the first goal.
“It is very irritating because after five minutes we conceded already a goal like that and we are chasing goals, which is not normal,” Ibrahimović told reporters. “We cannot concede like that. It shouldn’t be normal. It’s not good; it is not good. We can either wake up or continue like this, but if we continue like this, we don’t want the same objective – we don’t want to win.”
Against the Dynamo, Ibrahimović was at the forefront of the Galaxy attack, playing a part in each of the team’s two tallies.
His most impressive contribution came in the 85th minute when he unleashed a breathtaking cross-field pass to Giovani dos Santos who found Ola Kamara for the goal.
Passes don't get much more perfect, @Ibra_official. https://t.co/nu24QliLRz
— Major League Soccer (@MLS) May 6, 2018
As Los Angeles looks to break out of their recent slump, the Swedish striker says that it’s on the entire team to respond.
“Either I wake up, and I take care of it, or we all wake up,” he said.
