{"id":18363,"date":"2018-08-11T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonsoccer.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=18363"},"modified":"2018-08-13T20:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:20:22","slug":"minnesota-united-preview-la-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/2018\/08\/11\/minnesota-united-preview-la-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota United Preview: LA Galaxy vs. Minnesota United FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Preview (August 11, 2018)<\/strong> &#8211; Many Minnesota United fans may still be coming\u00a0to terms with the trade of fan-favorite Christian\u00a0Ramirez. Some could say that this match against the LA Galaxy is the beginning\u00a0of a new era in Loons history of sorts. Ramirez has been with the Loons throughout their home journey from NASL to the MLS.<\/p>\n<h2>Minnesota United Preview: At LA Galaxy<\/h2>\n<p>When: Saturday,\u00a0August 11th, 9:30 pm CT<\/p>\n<p>Where:\u00a0StubHub Center, Carson, California<\/p>\n<h2>What to watch for:<\/h2>\n<h3>Can Angelo Rodriguez justify the trade?<\/h3>\n<p>The Minnesota\u00a0United fanbase was quite upset with the trade of Christian Ramirez midweek. Some may blame the signing of Rodriguez as the reason for Ramirez&#8217;s departure. Regardless the majority of the\u00a0fanbase is\u00a0expecting Rodriguez to perform up to his Designated Player status. Will he perform\u00a0under the pressure?<\/p>\n<h3>Will Romario Ibarra get the start?<\/h3>\n<p>This may be getting a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsoccer.com\/2018\/08\/03\/preview-minnesota-united-fc-vs-seattle-sounders-fc\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">little redundant<\/a> but Romario should be getting more minutes. He should get the start to see what he can do from the start. He may not have a lot of experience in the wing-back role but he has the pace to make up make up for some mistakes. His ability going forward should make his case for a starting spot.<\/p>\n<h3>How will the Loons\u00a0handle Zlatan?<\/h3>\n<p>The Loons have not faced a striker like Zlatan Ibrahimovic this season. The MNUFC backline has had an up and down season. They will have to be on top of their game to keep him off the scoresheet. Although the Loons have seemed to sort out their set-piece problem from earlier in the season, Zlatan might pose a problem with his size.<\/p>\n<h3>Projected Line-Up<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/lineupbuilder.com\/2014\/custom\/354x526.php?p=11&amp;a=30502&amp;t=&amp;c=00badb&amp;1=GK_Shuttleworth__388_174&amp;2=DCLL_Calvo__317_114&amp;3=DC_Kallman__327_174&amp;4=DCRR_Boxall__317_235&amp;5=DMC_Warner__258_174&amp;6=MLAA_Ibarra__186_64&amp;7=MCLL_Ibson__218_122&amp;8=MCRR_Schuller__218_226&amp;9=MRAA_Ibarra__186_284&amp;10=FCL_Rodriguez__98_138&amp;11=FCR_Quintero__98_211&amp;c2=ffffff&amp;c3=ffffff&amp;output=embed\" width=\"354\" height=\"526\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preview (August 11, 2018) &#8211; Many Minnesota United fans may still be coming\u00a0to terms with the trade of fan-favorite Christian\u00a0Ramirez. Some could say that this match against the LA Galaxy is the beginning\u00a0of a new era in Loons history of sorts. Ramirez has been with the Loons throughout their home journey from NASL to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2642,"featured_media":18380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,67,119],"tags":[2446,1007,36,290,57,2256,1038],"class_list":["post-18363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galaxy","category-minnesota-united","category-mls","tag-angelo-rodriguez","tag-christian-ramirez","tag-la-galaxy","tag-minnesota-united-fc","tag-mls","tag-romario-ibarra","tag-zlatan-ibrahimovic"],"modified_by":"Matt Pollard","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}