After enduring the “maddening” final minutes, coach Jason Kreis said his Real Salt Lake players helped bring disappointment on themselves, by failing to play aggressively enough down the stretch of a 2-2 draw with the Los Angeles Galaxy tonight at Rio Tinto Stadium.

“Probably the most disappointing thing for me is how we played in the last 10 or 12 minutes,” he said. “Just didn't quite figure it out and really just dropped all the way into our box and allowed them to serve things into us. As you saw, bounces have a funny way of going against you, when you do that.”

Indeed, the Galaxy's Mike Magee scored through goalkeeper Chris Seitz's legs from a nearly impossible angle near the touchline in the 94th minute, moments after RSL had miraculously earned a penalty kick to retake the lead, after the Galaxy's Landon Donovan had equalized on a penalty in the 91st minute.

But it was a late-game shift to a 4-5-1 formation that Kreis said caused RSL problems.

“We've had a couple of occasions now where we just can't figure out how to play out of it,” he said. “I think it almost gives our guys just a complete defensive mentality that we don't have to play soccer now. ... But having said that, I don't think it's fair to take all the blame on the coaching staff. The guys have to figure out how to play that way, as well. We can't always think we're going to be able to play the soccer we want to or in the shape that we want to. We going to have to learn to play other ways. We're going to have to learn to dig out results.”