Sounders and Galaxy This Sunday and Whatever

Greetings from my humble house south of Seattle,

Galaxy v Sounders....this means Donovan v Sounders. He is the key to the game for most Sounders supporters. If we hold him down then we have an excellent chance at three points.

I think this will be a team effort to stop him, to many times has Donovan made holding mid-fielders look extremely bad. But I also believe that we have one of the best "6 hole" players in MLS in Alonso.

If he and the center combo of Hurtado (my new favorite player) and Marshall can contain Donovan the keys to the car are taken away. He has 5 goals already this season, that is more then a couple of teams in MLS.

On the Donovan thing really quick, will this guy ever challenge himself and go to the EPL or will MLS just balk at it? I mean I believe if he were put into a side in the 5-14 range in the table he could succeed. I think a team like Aston Villa with no Gareth Barry would be a nice fit in the middle I think.

Or is Donovan really a forward? Then lets look at a team like Everton, they will not be able to keep Jo permanently and Saha is injury prone. I also think Cahill is more effective in the middle and Yakubu is injured badly who knows if he will be a viable option. I also think a team like Stoke, yes Stoke if they stay up he would work with James Beattie.

Onto my final predictions for the game, Bruce Arena is forming a small version of his old national side: Sanneh, Berhalter, Lewis, Kirovski.....well they were good at one time.

Zakuani is the key again, can he get wide and create crosses. If Ljundberg is at forward then I really think Nyassi should get the nod or even start Le Toux up front with no Montero is an option.

We will see, three points is the goal.