Photo Gallery: FC Dallas 1, Los Angeles Galaxy 1

GAME 10 – May 23, 2009

FC DALLAS 1, LA GALAXY 1

Pizza Hut Park – Frisco, TX

Scoring:

LA -- Landon Donovan 6 (Eddie Lewis 1, Mike Magee 2) 3

DAL -- Drew Moor 2 (Dave van den Bergh 3) 31

FC DALLAS: Ray Burse, Drew Moor, Pablo Ricchetti, Daniel Torres, Andre Rocha (Anthony Wallace 46), Marcelo Saragosa, Bruno Guarda, David Ferreira, Dave van den Bergh (Eric Avila 61), Brek Shea (Alvaro Sanchez 46), Kenny Cooper.

Subs Not Used: Josh Lambo, Dax McCarty, Kyle Davies, Jeff Cunningham.

Shots – 9; Shots on Goal – 3; Total Saves – 7; Fouls – 10; Offsides – 4; Corner Kicks – 7

LA GALAXY: Donovan Ricketts, A.J. DeLaGarza, Greg Berhalter, Omar Gonzalez, Todd Dunivant, Josh Tudela (Chris Klein 74), Landon Donovan, Dema Kovalenko, Eddie Lewis (Bryan Jordan 78), Alan Gordon (Edson Buddle 67), Mike Magee.

Subs Not Used: Josh Saunders, Jovan Kirovski, Stefani Miglioranzi, Tony Sanneh.

Shots – 20; Shots on Goal – 9; Total Saves – 2; Fouls – 15; Offsides – 2; Corner Kicks – 11

Misconduct Summary:

DAL -- Marcelo Saragosa (ejection) 25

LA -- Eddie Lewis (caution) 26

DAL -- Pablo Ricchetti (caution) 32

LA -- Omar Gonzalez (caution) 33

DAL -- Andre Rocha (caution) 41

LA -- Josh Tudela (caution) 42

DAL -- Bruno Guarda (caution) 74

NOTES:

· FC Dallas tonight posted its second consecutive 1-1 draw, bringing the team’s overall record to 1-6-3 (6 pts.) and 1-2-2 at Pizza Hut Park.

· Dallas is now unbeaten in its last three outings against the LA Galaxy (1-0-2 over that span), 17-23-9 all-time versus Los Angeles in the regular season, and 13-6-6 against the Galaxy at home.

· The team has held its opponents scoreless in the second half of back-to-back games and three total times on the season. FCD is now 1-0-2 when shutting out the opposition during the second half.

· Making his 100th career start for Dallas, defender Drew Moor tonight scored his second goal of the season, a header off a corner kick from Dave van den Bergh. It was the seventh goal of his career.

· Van den Bergh is the team’s leader in assists with three on the year.

· FCD goalkeeper Ray Burse matched his season-high of seven saves (April 29 at DC United), one shy of his career-high set on October 26, 2007 at Columbus.

· After starting the first nine games of the season in a 4-4-2 formation, FC Dallas tonight made the switch to a 3-5-2.

· Team captain Pablo Ricchetti was the central figure defensively, with Moor to his right and Daniel Torres to his left.

· It was Ricchetti’s first start this season on the back line, making his previous seven starts as the lone holding midfielder.

· Marcelo Saragosa and Bruno Guarda started in central midfield together, with attacking midfielder David Ferreira in front of them.

· Nineteen-year-old forward Brek Shea, in his second MLS season, made his first career start tonight.

· Saragosa received a red card in the 26th minute and will be forced to sit out next week’s game at Chicago.

· Down a player for much of the first half, head coach Schellas Hyndman made two changes at halftime, bringing on Anthony Wallace as a fourth defender to replace Andre Rocha, and midfielder Alvaro Sanchez to replace Shea.

· It was the first MLS action for Sanchez. The 24-year-old Costa Rican had previously appeared in the April 22 U.S. Open Cup Play-In Game at DC United.

· For Wallace, it was his first appearance of the season.

· Four Dallas players have now started all nine regular season games: David Ferreira, Kenny Cooper, Drew Moor, and Dave van den Bergh. Moor and Ferreira are the only two remaining to have played every minute this year.

· Cooper tonight started his 42nd consecutive regular season game dating back to the 2007 season and is just one start shy of the league’s all-time mark for starts at that position, shared by Taylor Twellman (2005-2007) and Alejandro Moreno (2007-2008).

· Three Dallas players missed tonight’s game due to injury: goalkeeper Dario Sala (L knee), and defenders Steve Purdy (right knee) and George John (right hamstring).

· Tonight’s attendance was ­­­9,595.

· FC Dallas will travel to Chicago next Sunday, May 31 to face the Fire at Toyota Park (2 p.m. CT live on TeleFutura and KFWD-52).

· FC Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman on the game: “There was a lot of pressure early in the 3-5-2. I keep referring to the poor man’s blanket, every time you’re thinking you’re getting somewhere, you’re giving something else, and I thought we gave up a lot in the flanks early. We switched into a 4-4-2 and probably 30 seconds later Marcelo gets his red card. But, on a positive side we got a point at home when we played against a team a man down for 65 minutes. I thought our defense, in particular Ray (Burse), was outstanding today.”