London 2012 Olympics: David Beckham fails to impress Stuart Pearce as LA Galaxy lose to New York Red Bull However, under the gaze of Olympic manager Stuart Pearce, who had flown out to Los Angeles to study the midfielder's form, he failed to impress on Sunday as his Galaxy team lost 1-0 at home to New York Red Bull, thanks to Joel Lindpere's 19th-minute goal. Playing in central midfield for Galaxy, in a team which also included Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan, Beckham struggled to impress, regularly overhitting his passes and even his usually reliable dead-ball prowess was not up to scratch at the Home Depot Center, in California. It's a little bit easier for him for players in Europe, but, obviously, coming all the way over here is good for me. But his evening was summed up when he missed a good last-minute opportunity to level the game - it was fired harmlessly wide. Though Beckham played the whole game, he was cautioned and expressed his frustrations about his team - who won the MLS Cup last season but are placed seventh in the Western Conference after their fifth defeat in nine games - to the media after the game. "It's getting even more frustrating week after week," he said. We had our chances and we didn't finish off the chances that we had. We got sloppy in defence with a couple plays and obviously it's disappointing to lose at home. Pearce is set to select his 18-man squad at the end of the month, and it remains to be seen whether Beckham can convince his former England team-mate to give him one of the three over-age places for London 2012. On this evidence, it seems unlikely.