Los Angeles Galaxy 2, Houston 1

First half_1, Houston, Blessing, 1, 18th minute; 2, Los Angeles Galaxy, Pec, 4 (Yamane), 44th.

Second half_3, Los Angeles Galaxy, Puig, 4 (Pec), 59th.

Guardians_Houston, Andrew Tarbell, Xavier Valdez; Los Angeles Galaxy, John McCarthy, Novak Micovic.

Yellow cards_None.

Referee_Allen Chapman. Assistant referees_Jeremy Hanson, Felisha Mariscal, Younes Marrakchi. 4th Official_Elijio Arreguin.

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Compositions

Houston_Andrew Tarbell; Griffin Dorsey, Micael, Daniel Steres (Jefferson Valverde, 78th), Erik Sviatchenko (Franco Escobar, 90th); Artur, Latif Blessing (Brad Smith, 46th), Adalberto Carrasquilla (Gabe Segal, 83rd), Hector Herrera; Ibrahim Aliyu, Amine Bassi.

Los Angeles Galaxy_John McCarthy; Julian Aude (John Nelson, 67th), Martin Cáceres, Miki Yamane, Maya Yoshida; Gaston Brugman, Marky Delgado, Diego Fagundez (Daniel Aguirre, 84th), Gabriel Pec, Riqui Puig; Dejan Joveljic (Edwin Cerrillo, 83rd).

The Associated Press