St. Louis City hand Galaxy third straight defeat to open season

Cedric Teuchert scored a goal with an assist as St. Louis City picked up their first win of the season and extended the misery of the defending champion Los Angeles Galaxy with a 3-0 victory Sunday in Carson, Calif.

Marcel Hartel and Simon Becher also scored goals for St. Louis City (1-0-2, 5 points), who found the back of the net for the first time this season after opening with a pair of scoreless draws. Roman Burki made eight saves for his third clean sheet in three games.

St. Louis City is the 11th team in MLS history to not allow a goal over their first three league games in a season.

The Galaxy not only have lost all three MLS games this season, they are 0-4-0 when counting a CONCACAF Champions Cup loss last week to Costa Rica's CS Herediano. LA is the first team in MLS history to start a title defense with three consecutive league losses.

Novak Micovic made two saves for the Galaxy (0-3-0, 0 points), who have given up seven total goals in their three MLS defeats so far this season, while scoring once.

The LA offense went on the attack early. The Galaxy's Marco Reus hit the right post after a deflection from Burki, with Harbor Miller's shot on the rebound going over the crossbar.

The Galaxy's Christian Ramirez had a point-blank shot in the 34th minute that again was saved by Burki.

St. Louis City took a 1-0 lead just before halftime when Micovic failed to handle a corner kick from Hartel and Teuchert cleaned up a loose ball in front of the goal.

Just four minutes into the second half, Hartel delivered his own score in transition into the top left corner of the goal off an assist from Teuchert.

Again, the Galaxy just missed scoring a goal in the 83rd minute when Gabriel Pec's shot from well outside of the penalty area went just over the crossbar. St. Louis City countered immediately as Becher scored in transition less than a minute later off a lead pass from Kyle Hiebert.

--Field Level Media