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SEATTLE -- Robbie Keane won the game with his left foot.But A.J. DeLaGarza saved it with his chest.Keane scored in the 15th minute, and DeLaGarza blocked a shot in front of a wide-open net in the 53rd, leading the Los Angeles Galaxy to a 1-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders on Saturday.It was Keanes sixth goal of the season for the Galaxy (7-3-8, 29 points), who were outshot 22-7, but still won their second straight after a seven-game winless streak.A couple months ago, we probably would have lost, Keane said. Obviously, its a good three points away from home, especially coming her and defending against a good team.It was a good performance all around, even though it wasnt the prettiest game.Keanes goal came on a counterattack. Defender Dave Romney gained possession on the L.A. side of midfield and sent a long through ball down the left wing. Gyasi Zardes caught up with it and took it into the penalty area, crossing it toward the middle. Keane ran onto it and drove it past goalkeeper Stefan Frei.Keane also scored in Mondays 2-0 victory at home against Vancouver.Two games, two goals, two wins. Its all right, huh? he said with a grin as he walked away.The Sounders (5-10-2, 17 points) are winless in their last four games. Forward Clint Dempsey returned after missing five games while playing for the U.S. national team in Copa America.Seattle, currently last in the Western Conference, had a prime opportunity to tie it in the 53rd minute when rookie forward Jordan Morris ran onto a through ball from Tyrone Mears. Goalkeeper Brian Rowe came out to challenge Morris, but went down.That left Morris, whose team-leading six goals included the equalizer that salvaged a 1-1 tie at Toronto last Saturday, with a shot from 8 yards away. But L.A. defender DeLaGarza blocked it with his chest, 2 yards in front of the goalmouth.If its grass, the ball kind of skips by, maybe. The turf popped it straight up, DeLaGarza said ot the bounce that gave Morris his opportunity. At that point, I just tried to cover B-Rowe and hoping he could make a play so I didnt have to. But luckily, (Morris) hit it pretty close to me, and I was able to just reach out and poke it away.We defended a lot tonight, DeLaGarza added, and we had to.The Galaxy have allowed just two goals in the last six games.Rowes shutout was his fifth. He was credited with four saves. One of those came in the 76th minute when he leaped to deflect a Dempsey header over the net with his fingertips.The Sounders, with a league-low 14 goals, had 61 percent of the possession for the game, including 60 percent in the first half, 63 in the second. Of their 22 shots, Los Angeles blocked nine of them.All you can ask of your team is to create chances, Seattle head coach Sigi Schmid said. If you look at the game today and if you landed from Mars and just looked at the game and nobody told you what the score was, who do you think the guy from Mars would say won the game? We battled, we fought, I felt we dominated the game. ... Its frustrating.Los Angeles was the third straight team to shut out the Sounders in Seattle.Weve lost points in three of four similar games on the road, Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena said. Were growing and understanding what we need to do to close out games.George Kell Jersey . Mats Zuccarello and Derek Stepan scored shootout goals, and backup goalie Cam Talbot earned his second win in two nights as the Rangers shook off a late tying tally and beat the Maple Leafs 2-1 Monday night. Spencer Turnbull Jersey .7 million, one-year contract, a raise of $2.2 million. Wieters had asked for $8.75 million and the Orioles had offered $6. https://www.cheaptigers.com/349z-don-lund-jersey-tigers.html . JOHNS, N. David McKay Jersey . 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Vettel, who has already clinched his fourth straight F1 title, enters the finale with a chance to equal Michael Schumachers 13 victories in a year and match the record of nine consecutive wins by Alberto Ascari in the 1952 and 1953 seasons.The Kiwis didnt have to look far for motivation going into their Four Nations rugby league opener against England in Huddersfield, skipper Jesse Bromwich says.The New Zealanders began their title defence with a narrow 17-16 win at a sold-out John Smiths Stadium, Shaun Johnsons 64th minute field goal proving the difference.Bromwich said the forwards in particular knew they hadnt performed two weeks ago in folding 26-6 to Australia in Perth.We were pretty disappointed with our last game against Australia as a middle unit, and we knew we had to do better, Bromwich said.We had a little talk during the week about how good the England forward pack was, and we knew we had a big game ahead of us.He said the Kiwis took extra motivation from coming up against English players of the calibre of Sam Burgess, James Graham and Chris Hill.They were severely tested in the opening 20 minutes, but stood strong and England came away with only two Gareth Widdop penalties to show for their efforts.Bromwich says the memory of that stellar defensive effort will stand them in good stead when they clash with Australia next weekend in Coventry.I thought they started the game really well - wwe gave away a couple of penalties there, and we defended our backsides off, he said.ddddddddddddThe lungs were gone at the start, but we did really well to hang in there.I guess we can take a bit of confidence out of that performance. We did it really tough at the start, but we were able to hang in there and grind it out.Celebrating his first win as coach, David Kidwell paid tribute to the impact his bench players made as well as the hard work put in by his starting 13.Jordan Rapana crossed twice, with Johnson adding a third as well as slotting the crucial field goal.Kidwell said it was particularly pleasing to see Johnson making the most of his chances.Im all about players taking the opportunity. He saw one, and it ended up being the winning field goal, Kidwell said.I dont go out and tell people what to do - they obviously believe and have confidence in their ability.Were growing as a team, and trying to improve each week. I thought we made a big step in improvement from our previous game, and were looking forward to improving again. ' ' '