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Keane (30' pen., 64', 80' pen.), Gerrard (37'), Lletget (92')

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Steven Gerrard scores on MLS debut in Los Angeles Galaxy win

Steven Gerrard scores on his competitive debut for Los Angeles Galaxy as the MLS champions fight back to beat San Jose Earthquakes.

By Chris O'Keefe, Reporter

Published: July 18 2015 | 06:04

Last updated: July 18 2015 | 10:21

Steven Gerrard has scored on his MLS debut as he helped Los Angeles Galaxy fight back from two goals down to beat San Jose Earthquakes.

The defending champions, who narrowly beat Club America in a friendly last week, found themselves behind on 22 minutes when Sanna Nyassi teed up Quincy Amarikwa for his first goal of the season.

Gerrard's MLS career was threatening to start with defeat when San Jose doubled their lead through another strike from Amarikwa soon after.

However, Galaxy began to fight back and were awarded a penalty for Tommy Thompson's foul on the ex-Liverpool captain. Robbie Keane scored from the spot to bring LA back into the game.

Gerrard then got Los Angeles back on terms when he sidefooted past David Bingham after the Earthquakes failed to clear a cross into the box.

The former England skipper continued to influence proceedings and was instrumental in giving the Galaxy the lead on 64 minutes as he teed up Keane for his second of the evening.

The Irish international then completed his hat-trick with his second spot kick of the evening before Sebastian Lletget added a fifth for Galaxy in stoppage time.

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	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

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	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