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CARSON, Calif. -- Robbie Keane hit the right post and Landon Donovan had three opportunities inside the Portland box as the Los Angeles Galaxy settled for a 0-0 draw with the Timbers on Wednesday night. Portland (6-1-9) extended its unbeaten streak to 14 matches with its third shutout in the last four. Los Angeles (6-6-3) had given up eight goals in its previous two matches -- losses at New England and Real Salt Lake -- and has struggled while surrendering late, decisive goals all season. "I thought we defended well, for the most part," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said. "Im not sure Portland had a whole lot of chances tonight. That was good. At the other end of the field, I think their centre backs played well, and (goalkeeper Donovan) Ricketts was going to be difficult to beat. This was going to be a game where we had to jump on any kind of opportunity that we got, and we were half a step off most of the night." Keanes glancing header in the 55th minute, which bounced through the goalmouth and off the right post, was the best scoring chance in a game that featured superb ball movement through midfield by both teams but little effective penetration and scarce opportunities to break the deadlock. Donovan had all of his three chances in the first half, with all coming on through balls from Keane, but Timbers defender Pa-Modou Kah made stops in the box each time -- with sliding tackles to deny the shot in the 41st and 44th minutes. Fellow centre back Andrew Jean-Baptiste made a big stop in the 75th minute, cutting off Gyasi Zardes cross headed for Keane at the left post, and Ricketts made a big stop on Colin Clark in the 77th. The Timbers, who had scored 10 goals in their past five games, accomplished little against an L.A. defence led by A.J. DeLaGarza in the back and supported by Juninhos and Rafael Garcias tenacious work in midfield. Goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini was rarely challenged and easily stopped a 30-yard first-half blast by Darlington Nagbe, Portlands best opportunity. "It was a defensive game tonight. Both teams defended very well," said Keane, who returned to the Galaxy lineup after missing a couple of games while with Irelands national team. "I dont think both teams had any chances, really. Maybe half-chances. All in all, I think a draw was probably a fair result."Matt Miazga USA Jersey . Jordan Lynch, the all-purpose Heisman Trophy finalist from Northern Illinois, failed to make it into that exclusive club. Bill Hamid USA Jersey . Hargreaves began his career in 2008 with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and has played with the Edmonton Eskimos and last season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. http://www.soccerusateamonline.com/Juan-Agudelo-Copa-America-Jersey/ . -- Vincent Lecavalier got everything but the desired result in his return to Tampa Bay. Alejandro Bedoya Jersey . 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North American fans may have been sad, but support Andy Smoothie Ta says his team took the loss well, despite the crushing games.Samsung is a really good team, so were not taking it that badly, but we definitely played really bad as a team; our teamwork just wasnt up to par, Smoothie says. Korean teams punish that a lot more than other teams do.Smoothie says after qualifying for the quarterfinals on Sunday in San Francisco, the team had very little time to practice.I think I gave it our best shot to fix our problems, he says. Our practice was really efficient these past two days, but we only had two days of practice or actually even prepare for these games; we didnt have a lot of time.Cloud9, for their part, looked lost against Samsung Galaxy in their games Thursday night. Despite having a decent early game, the team got obliterated in the late game, with Samsung Galaxy slowly bleeding them out in the second two matchups. Its something that Smoothie said he wishes he and his team couldve addressed beforehand.We tried to fix as much as we could. We kind of knew our problems, he says. We just fixed the outer layer and never really got to the deep stuff. I dont think we couldve fixed much more than that.Coming to Chicago, Cloud9 was North Americas last hope, as their peers, Counter Logic Gaming and Team SoloMid were eliminated during the group stage. For many, this would put pressure on their team, but Smoothie says it felt good coming into the late half of the week. His only regret is his team should have practiced harder during Worlds in order to make a deeper run.Being NAs last hope, it feels pretty good at first, he says. When Worlds started, I think we just didnt take practice as serious as we shouldve; we played a lot of other games [that werent League]. Im not saying other games affected us too much, cause we played them outside of scrimmages and during queue times and stuff. Its not that bad. But I think we couldve been more focused and just commit everything to Worlds. To some extent, we did that, but I personally think we could do more and just get as good as we could while I was there.Prior to joining Cloud9 and making it to Worlds, Smoothie started his 2016 with a rough patch on Team Liquid. Formerly of Team Dragon Knights, which suffered in the summer of 2015 from visa issues that eventually relegated the team out of the League Championship Series (LCS), Smoothie joinedd Team Liquid as its original starting support.dddddddddddd But his time on the starting roster came to an end after one week, and he moved to its Challenger lineup.Ive had phases in my career, where I thought I was the best in my role, Smoothie says. I thought I was the worst in my role towards the end of [my time on] Team Liquid. Now Im up there again. I was just really complacent, even on Team Liquid, I thought I was mechanically gifted and everything would fall into place because I could make plays all around the map. That wasnt really the case though because macro play was a really big factor, and I didnt know a single bit of macro play at all.Team Liquid Academy was unable to qualify for the LCS, and Smoothie left shortly after. Despite the ups and downs, Smoothie says that while working with Team Liquid, he learned a lot thanks to their coach Choi Locodoco Yoon-sub, who taught him wider basics of the team.After leaving Liquid, he traveled to South Korea, where he trialed and boot camped with Cloud9 and joined their roster to split starting time with fellow support Michael Bunny FuFuu Kurylo.Fitting in with these guys was really, really easy; theyre really all very welcoming, and theyre really funny, so its not very hard to get along with them, he says. Theyre just a bunch of memers -- thats the reputation of Cloud9 -- its really easy. If you can just all laugh and just have fun, youre gonna have a good time on the team. From the start, it was really easy to transition into the team.During this week, following the loss of Team SoloMid and comments made by their head coach, Weldon Green, on South Korean boot camps, some North American fans stated on social media that boot camping in South Korea was not worthwhile. As someone who experienced it, Smoothie says he cant take those comments seriously.I definitely think [boot camping in South Korea] was worthwhile; I thought that whole [outrage] was pretty troll, he says. The amount I learned in Korea was insane, I pretty much learned how to play ranged supports in Korea, completely from the start. It was really hard because Im not gonna say the only hard bot lanes are Immortals and Team SoloMid, but even those guys dont punish mistakes as much as hard as Korean teams do ... I dont know, I think its pretty troll to say that going to Korea was a bad thing.And as Cloud9 has been eliminated, the North American League of Legends scene will enter its winter offseason and two-and-a-half months of roster changes, when much of the regions talent will move to new teams.The future for me is that Im just going to keep playing as my body allows me to, until whenever I decide I want to stop playing, Smoothie says. I like being on Cloud9 a lot. I think being on this team is a really good experience for me, and Ill just keep improving and eventually become as the best support in North America. Im not there yet, but maybe get there soon. ' ' '