João Klauss has 1st career MLS hat technique for St
ST. LOUIS (AP)– João Klauss scored 3 goals– the 28-year-old’s very first MLS hat technique– the last of which was available in the fifth minute of interruption time for St. Louis City on Saturday in a 3-3 tie with the LA Galaxy.Goalkeeper Roman Bürki
played a free kick from beyond midfield to the edge of package where Timo Baumgartl snapped a header toward goal. Klauss ran onto the ball at the best edge of the 6-yard box and slipped a first-touch shot inside the back post to top the scoring.Advertisement St. Louis
(3-9-6)has one
win– a 2-1 triumph over San Jose on Might 31– in its last 14 games.Klauss near the left corner of the location, played a short pass to Marcel Hartel and darted towards goal as Hartel tapped it back to Klauss for a rolling surface from the edge of the 6-yard box to give St. Louis a 1-0 lead in the 35th minute.Gabriel Pec scored his 2nd objective of the season and his
first since March 2 to tie it at 1-1 in the 41st. Pec put away a one-touch round off a centering pass played by Marco Reus from the best side of the area. Pec took a misplayed back-pass after St. Louis protector Jayden Reid slipped and fell and after that cut back to avert Bürki, who had actually charged off his line, before delicately rolling a shot into a wide-open net to provide LA a 3-2 lead in the 87th. Célio Pompeu played an arcing one-touch ball ahead, off a Galaxy free gift, down the best side to a spotting Klauss, who blasted an increasing shot inside the near post and under the crossbar to provide St. Louis a 2-1 lead in the 47th minute.Advertisement Matheus Nascimento scored his very first MLS objective in the 21-year-old’s 3rd profession start to
make it 2-2 in the 51st minute. John Nelson played a focusing pass to Rues, who tapped back-heel pass from a couple of backyards outside the area to Nascimento for a one-touch surface from near the penalty spot.The Galaxy (1-12-5), the defending MLS Cup champions, beat Genuine Salt Lake 2-0 last time out and to snap the longest winless streak to begin a season in MLS history at 16 games.St. Louis, which beat the Galaxy 3-0 on March 9, is unbeaten in 4 straight versus LA. ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/soccer