The Los Angeles Galaxy have won 12 of its 19 matches against expansion teams since the start of the 2010 season, (D3 L4), including a 1-0 win at Charlotte FC last season. The Los Angeles Galaxy’s only loss in their last eight matches against MLS expansion newcomers was a 2-0 defeat at Austin FC in September 2021 (W5 D2).
St. Louis City SC has won six of its first eight home matches (L2), the second time in as many years an expansion team has done so (Charlotte FC – 2022). The only expansion team to win seven of its first nine at home was the Chicago Fire in 1998, who won eight of their first 10 home league matches.
The Los Angeles Galaxy ended an eight-match winless run in MLS road games (D2 L6, including playoffs) with a 3-2 win at Real Salt Lake on May 31. The Los Angeles Galaxy earned more points (3) and scored more goals (3) in that match than they had in their first seven road games of the season combined (2 points, 1 goal).
St. Louis City SC has scored at least three goals in each of its first six home wins this season, including winning its last three at home by a combined score of 10-1. Five different St. Louis City SC players have scored multiple home goals, led by Eduard Lowen (5) and Nicholas Gioacchini (4).
Memo Rodriguez and Tyler Boyd came off the bench to score in the Los Angeles Galaxy’s win at Real Salt Lake on May 31. It was the third time in club history that two the Los Angeles Galaxy substitutes scored in the same match, joining Dejan Joveljic (2) and Efrain Alvarez last August and Clint Mathis and Ezra Hendrickson in the 1998 playoffs.
