5 Takeaways | It Never Gets Easier | Los Angeles Football Club

We've been here before, unfortunately.

A tall Swede with a god complex is, once again, a harbinger of our collective misery. The one whose glaring flaw in many people's eyes is actually his biggest strength. A player that is rejuvenated by the biggest moments even at 37. And specifically, almost without fail, always against LAFC.

We've been here before, but not in this fashion.

Because Zlatan Ibrahimovic may have had his moment, just as he did the first time we traveled to Carson, but it was the rest of his team that followed his lead for once. For once in this derby, LAFC wasn't just unlucky. They simply weren't the better team on the night.

And yet still... still, LAFC is undoubtedly the best team in MLS. Maybe the best ever according to the points, goals, goal differential, and goals against coming into Friday night and where those stats projected to finish. But it just doesn't feel that way in this very moment.

Simply put: Derby losses are the worst.

Here are the takeaways from LAFC's 3-2 loss to the Galaxy in Carson:

The Derby Atmosphere
MLS should be paying residuals to everyone involved in these matches. Those in the stands included. Because this derby consistently puts MLS on the world's stage.

Seeing the amount of Black & Gold in the away stands and hearing large swaths of active LAFC support throughout the match, it brought to mind the San Siro divided by red and blue for Derby della Madonnina between Inter and Milan - Zlatan should know a thing or two about that, he played for both sides.

Catch Your Breath
Skip the pleasantries and get right to it. LAFC and the Galaxy came out flying.

Things were happening so fast, between writing in my notebook, updating Twitter, and you know... like... breathing, the first 10 minutes on Friday were breakneck.

I kept telling myself, this match has to settle. It never really did. This was football at 100mph. Which explains why it wasn't always the cleanest football. But what it lacked in aesthetics, it made up for it with a white-knuckle rollercoaster rid

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