Robbie Keane brace guides Los Angeles Galaxy to comfortable victory

Sep 29, 2014 at 1.30am UK

Keane (8', 82'), Donovan (50'), Zardes (69')

FT(HT: 1-0)

The Los Angeles Galaxy cruise to a 4-0 win over the New York Red Bulls thanks to a brace from Robbie Keane and strikes from Landon Donovan and Gyasi Zardes.

Published: September 29 2014 | 03:50

Last updated: October 3 2014 | 12:43

Robbie Keane scored a brace as the Los Angeles Galaxy hammered the New York Red Bulls 4-0 in their MLS clash on Sunday.

Keane opened the scoring in the eighth minute when Landon Donovan found him inside the box and the Irishman did brilliantly to find the net with a chipped effort over Luis Robles.

The visitors should have levelled the scores when Thierry Henry released the run of Bradley Wright-Phillips, but he fired his shot straight at Jaime Penedo when one-on-one with the keeper.

Wright-Phillips went through again in the 30th minute but he failed to sort out his feet in the box and his tame left-footed shot was easily saved by Penedo.

The Red Bulls continued to press and Henry used his strength to hold off a challenge before laying a perfect through-ball for Eric Alexander, but Penedo was on hand to beat his powerful shot away from goal.

In the second half, the Galaxy made the visitors pay for their missed chances as Donovan doubled their lead when he capitalised on an error from Chris Duvall and slotted the ball into the net.

The home side made it 3-0 with a lovely move as Gyasi Zardes played a sublime one-two with Donovan inside the box and then rifled an effort through the legs of a defender and into the bottom corner.

Keane sealed the win as he found the net in the 82nd minute, rounding Robles and poking the ball home after latching onto Donovan's lofted pass over the New York defence.

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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