Jamel Wallace nearly got on the board for PSA Elite in the 5th minute of play, his effort was poor though, with the ball missing the target completely even though he was wide open on top of the six yard box. The home side's first real chance of this US Open Cup tie came in the ninth minute through Gyasi Zardes. Unfortunately, the USA international forward had a point-blank header saved.

Then, a minute later, Robbie Keane tried to chip the goalie and his audacious effort went just above the top of the goal. But in the 12th minute of play, PSA would take an early lead. Jose Carrera-Garcia found Michael Salazar in behind the Galaxy defense and beat Rowe to open up the scoring. Los Angeles nearly answered a couple of minutes later with Maganto whipping in a low cross to Zardes, but he just could put the ball on target.

The MLS Champions take control of the half

In a weird sequence of events, Sebastian Lletget would get the equalizing goal just three minutes later off of a corner kick. The new Galaxy man got his second goal in two starts after the ball looked to have it the underside of the crossbar.

Zardes would finally find the back of the net in the 19th minute, taking a 2-1 lead, after the side punished PSA for one too many turnovers in their defesive third of the pitch. Maganto found Keane who got open down the right side. The Irishman sent in a blazing ball towards Zardes and proceeded to push the ball into the back of the net.

After a frantic opening fifteen minutes, the Galaxy started to take control of the ball and moved it around nicely, pushing back the PSA Elite defense, stretching them apart. The rookie, Maganto, was very active in the early going of the match and was involved in the build-up to the Galaxy's third goal of the half, right before the half hour mark. He headed the ball down directly into the path of Robbie Keane who proceeded to smash it past the PSA Elite goalkeeper, McGuire.

HT: LA Galaxy 3-1 PSA Elite

After falling behind in the early goings of the match, Bruce Arena's squad did respond excellently scoring the next three goals of the match, alll before the 40 minute mark.

The first ten minutes of the second half played out exactly as the first half had ended with the Galaxy mainting the ball much more often than the opposition. And after a quick restart, in the 53rd minute, there was a fourth goal scored as Keane was free inside the area with acres of space to place the ball across the white line. Villarreal provided the assist with beatiful ball into a very dangerous area.

Robbie Keane nearly got his third goal of the game in the 58th minute, unfortunately, his effort slammed off the far post and it looked like the goalkeeper may have gotten a finger on the ball to push it wide.

Galaxy capitan completes his hattrick

He was ready to come out of the match having gotten a good 70 minutes of match action as he still recovers from injury and completed his hattrick. Raul Mendiola and Lletget combined neatly down the left side of the pitch. Lletget made an excellent run towards the byline and chipped it back towards the top of the six where Keane headed the ball into the far corner.

After missing an easy chance a few minutes prior, Baggio Husidic was free near the far post and scored the sixth goal of the evening with 13 minutes left to go. Again, down the right side of the pitch, the ball moved around quickly and crisply to open up a bit of space with Sorto being able to deliver the ball pretty far with no PSA defender being able to get near the ball.