The 24-year-old Argentine Cristian Pavon got the ball inside his own half, evaded four foes, and struck wonderfully from 24 yards against Toronto FC. Pavon’s golazo, the game’sopening goal in the 37th minute, came five minutes after the Galaxy went down a man because of Aleksandar Katai‘s ejection. Ifunanyachi Achara and AlejandroPozuelo scored later to earn Toronto a 2-1 win.

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