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Your support makes all the difference.Steven Gerrard's wait for a domestic league title will go on for at least another year.
The Liverpool great, who never managed to win a Premier League title with the Reds, was dumped out of the first round of the Major League Soccer play-offs overnight, as his Los Angeles Galaxy lost 3-2 to the Seattle Sounders.
Gerrard, of course, joined the Galaxy in the summer, the defending MLS Cup champions and the most successful club in MLS history with five Cup wins.
But despite their considerable firepower - Robbie Keane has 20 goals in 24 games this season - the Galaxy were undone by poor defending, their Achilles heel all season.
All three Seattle goals resulted from mistakes at the back, with Erik Friberg's 73rd minute match-winning strike coming after AJ DeLaGarza failed to deal with a relatively harmless cross.
The mocking was relentless:
"It was the perfect time to score the first one of the season," Friberg said after Seattle sealed their spot in the last four in the West.
"We need to continue to play as we did in the second half and if we do that I think we're going to go all the way and win the whole thing."
Poor Stevie.
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