Giles Barnes strike secures Houston Dynamo win

May 18, 2014 at 1.30am UK

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Giles Barnes scores the only goal of the game to hand the Houston Dynamo a narrow victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy in their MLS clash.

Published: May 18 2014 | 03:45

Last updated: May 18 2014 | 13:47

The Houston Dynamo moved to third in the MLS Eastern Conference as they recorded a narrow 1-0 win over the Los Angeles Galaxy, thanks to a strike from Giles Barnes.

The visitors should have taken the lead within the first 15 seconds on the match when Samuel Rosa latched onto a poor back-pass from Giles Barnes and raided into the box, but he fired wide from six yards.

Los Angeles went close again just before the break when Robbie Keane released AJ DeLaGarza who fired a shot past Tally Hally, but David Horst cleared the ball off the line with a brilliant header.

After half time, the home side threatened and came within inches of taking the lead when Omar Cummings lifted a cross into the box. Andrew Driver drove onto the ball at the back post, but his effort clattered off the woodwork and went wide.

However, minutes later the Dynamo did take the lead when they capitalised on a mistake by Dan Gargan as he tried to find Jaime Penedo with a throw in, but the keeper was robbed by Mark Sherrod who found Barnes to fire into the empty net.

Barnes had the opportunity to double his side's lead as he latched onto a through ball from Will Bruin and he fired an effort at goal which went just wide of the post.

The Galaxy pressed late on for an equaliser and came close through Keane as he raced onto a pass from Gyasi Zardes, but his right-footed shot went inches wide of the post as the Dynamo held out for the win.

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Eastern Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Inter Miami Inter Miami	34	22	8	4	79	49	30	74
2	Columbus Crew	34	19	9	6	72	40	32	66
3	FC Cincinnati Cincinnati	34	18	5	11	58	48	10	59
4	Orlando City	34	15	7	12	59	50	9	52
5	Charlotte FC Charlotte FC	34	14	9	11	46	37	9	51
6	New York City FC NY City	34	14	8	12	54	49	5	50
7	New York Red Bulls NY Red Bulls	34	11	14	9	55	50	5	47
8	CF Montreal Montreal	34	11	10	13	48	64	-16	43
9	Atlanta United Atlanta	34	10	10	14	46	49	-3	40
10	DC United	34	10	10	14	52	70	-18	40
11	Philadelphia Union Philadelphia	34	9	10	15	62	55	7	37
12	Toronto	34	11	4	19	40	61	-21	37
13	Nashville SC Nashville	34	9	9	16	38	54	-16	36
14	New England Revolution New England	34	9	4	21	37	74	-37	31
15	Chicago Fire	34	7	9	18	40	62	-22	30

Western Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Los Angeles FC Los Angeles	34	19	7	8	63	43	20	64
2	Los Angeles Galaxy LA Galaxy	34	19	7	8	69	50	19	64
3	Real Salt Lake Salt Lake	34	16	11	7	65	48	17	59
4	Seattle Sounders Seattle	34	16	9	9	51	35	16	57
5	Houston Dynamo Houston	34	15	9	10	47	39	8	54
6	Minnesota United Minnesota Utd	34	15	7	12	58	49	9	52
7	Colorado Rapids Colorado	34	15	5	14	61	60	1	50
8	Portland Timbers Portland	34	12	11	11	65	56	9	47
9	Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver	34	13	8	13	52	49	3	47
10	Austin FC Austin	34	11	9	14	39	48	-9	42
11	Dallas	34	11	8	15	54	56	-2	41
12	St Louis City	34	8	13	13	50	63	-13	37
13	Sporting Kansas City Kansas	34	8	7	19	51	66	-15	31
14	San Jose Earthquakes Earthquakes	34	6	3	25	41	78	-37	21