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Up next for the Galaxy: Saturday night vs. Sporting Kansas City

Los Angeles Galaxy's Robbie Keane tries to get away from Vancouver Whitecaps' Russell Teibert during the Galaxy's 2-0 loss to the Whitecaps.
Los Angeles Galaxy’s Robbie Keane tries to get away from Vancouver Whitecaps’ Russell Teibert during the Galaxy’s 2-0 loss to the Whitecaps.
(DARRYL DYCK / AP)
By Kevin Baxter
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When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday PDT.

Where: StubHub Center.

On the air: TV: TWC SportsNet, TWC Deportes. Radio: 980, 1330.

Records: Galaxy 2-2-2, Sporting Kansas City 2-1-3.

Record vs. Sporting (2014): 0-1-0.

Update: The Galaxy probably will be without reigning Major League Soccer MVP Robbie Keane for a second game; he missed last week’s 1-0 win over Seattle with a groin strain and has not been working out with the full team, though he has returned to training. Goalkeeper Jaime Penedo is coming off a career-high 10 saves against the Sounders and was MLS player of the week. Alan Gordon, starting in place of Keane, scored the game’s only goal, his second of the season. The win snapped a two-game losing streak and extended the Galaxy’s unbeaten streak at the StubHub Center to 24 games, dating to last year’s season opener. Sporting will be without center back Ike Opara, who ruptured his left Achilles’ tendon last weekand could miss the rest of the season. Opara, who leads the team with two goals, missed nearly all of 2014 with an ankle injury. The team has a four-game unbeaten streak that includes two scoreless draws.

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Kevin Baxter

Kevin Baxter writes about soccer and other things for the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked for 27 years. He has covered seven World Cups, four Olympic Games, six World Series and a Super Bowl and has contributed to three Pulitzer Prize-winning series at The Times and Miami Herald. An essay he wrote in fifth grade was voted best in the class. He has a cool dog.

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