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Philadelphia (1-3-0) at Los Angeles (4-0-1), 10:30 p.m.

Carson, CA (Sports Network) - The Philadelphia Union have their work cut out for them when they travel to take on the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer action on Saturday night.

Not only will the expansion team be playing the league top team a little over a month into the 2010 season, but it will be without its top scorer, Sebastien Le Toux, who was injured in a mid-week U.S. Open Cup qualifier.

"It looks like a MCL sprain," Philadelphia coach Peter Nowak said after the game.

Doctors have told Le Toux the injury to his left knee is considered mild.

"The doctors I talked to told me I am very lucky," Le Toux said. "Things could have been a lot worse."

Now it will be up to other players, notably Alejandro Moreno, to pick up the goal-scoring slack as the team tries to get on track after a 1-3 start.

"It's a long season, it's definitely not a sprint," Moreno told mlssoccer.com. "We're doing some good things on the field. We've lacked consistency over the course of the 90 minutes. We have made some decisions on the field that have perhaps affected the outcome of games. If we are to get results on a consistent basis, our play has to be consistent throughout 90 minutes."

That is exactly what the Galaxy have been to this point this season, consistent. They have been consistently shutting down the opposition's attack while getting timely goal scoring from forward Edson Buddle, who has all seven of his team's goals this season.

L.A. (4-0-1) will be aiming to rebound for its first dropped points of the season a week ago, a scoreless draw at Kansas City.

"Admittedly we played poorly on Saturday," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena told mlssoccer.com. "Despite the fact that you can complain about the field and it was a little slick and everything else, we weren't good. There's no question about it. We have to get better this week like it is every week and be prepared to play a better game on Saturday."

The Galaxy are relatively healthy, with defenders Sean Franklin and Leonardo, and midfielders Dema Kovalenko, Eddie Lewis and Clint Mathis all questionable.

The Union will be without midfielder Kyle Nakazawa along with Le Toux.