a long ball from behind midfield chested down by Gordon for Donovan to drive inside the left-hand post for his eighth goal on the campaign.
• Gordon then sent the blue-and-yellow side of Victoria Street into rapture with his second after coming off the bench, tapping home from close range after Donovan relayed a David Beckham pullback from the right side toward the far post.
• Chivas USA head coach Preki made two changes to the team that lost 2-0 to FC Dallas the Sunday before in Carson. Sacha Kljestan and Francisco Mendoza both returned from suspension, in place of Chris Pozniak and Kraig Chiles.
• Here's Preki's team (4-4-2): Brad Guzan - Lawson Vaughn, Claudio Suarez, Shavar Thomas (Atiba Harris 79), Jonathan Bornstein - Sacha Kljestan, Jesse Marsch, Paulo Nagamura (Raphael Wicky 81), Francisco Mendoza - Maykel Galindo (Ante Razov 57), Justin Braun. Substitutes Not Used: Jim Curtin, Dan Kennedy, Chris Pozniak, Keith Savage
• "Obviously the sharpness in front of our goal hasn't been the best. It's not one guy, the whole team was making mistakes and we got punished by them," Preki said. "That's the name of the game - sometimes you don't play well, sometimes you play well, sometimes you play well and get nothing, sometimes you make mistakes and get punished for them. Tonight we made mistakes and we got punished."
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• The five goals allowed to the Galaxy tied a Chivas record, set three times previously, last in 2006 at New York. "It's tough, anytime you give up five goals it's tough whoever we're playing," Chivas USA midfielder Sacha Kljestan said. "This is one of the hardest games I've ever been a part of, just demoralized on the field."
• It was the second time in three games Chivas USA were overwhelmed late in a game. Two weeks earlier in Columbus, the Crew scored twice in the final 20 minutes - including the game-winner in the 82nd minute - for an eventual 4-3 victory.
• "I thought we had some good fight. I thought we fought back and got our goal, tied the game up and kind of evened things out. Heading into halftime I felt good. I felt like everyone had the right mentality and everyone had the right intensity," Jonathan Bornstein said. "Something happened late in the game so where it slipped away from us."
• While Kljestan and Mendoza were welcome additions from suspension, Ante Razov was available only for substitute duty for a second consecutive match after missing two matches. He's started only the season opener.
• "I think that has a little to do with it. When we went on our big run last year we had the same starting 11 for a lot of the time," Kljestan said. "It's been tough not having Ante in there, somebody who keeps the ball real well for us up front. It's tough, I don't think we're 100 percent fit yet. We have a lot of guys that aren't match fit yet and that hurts us."
• A year ago, Chivas USA allowed just 29 goals in 30 games. The club has yet to post a shutout this year, and the Galaxy game marked the fifth time in five games that Chivas USA has allowed the first goal of the game.
• "We wanted to apply a lot of pressure from the beginning and kind of put them on their heels," Bornstein said. "When you give up an early goal it's not really the way we wanted it to work out."
• In addition, Chivas USA has won just once this season and is sitting on a three-game losing streak. The last time Chivas USA lost three games in a row was in 2005.
• "It's going to be hard for us to come back from this," Kljestan said. "This is tough, three losses in a row but if any team can do it I believe our team can. We have great leadership and we have a lot of great young players. I'm not worried about our team at all."
