FRISCO, Texas — With David Beckham out of action again, Landon Donovanscored a goal and assisted on three more to lead the Galaxy over FC Dallas 6-5Tuesday night and earn Los Angeles a berth in the SuperLiga semifinals.

Los Angeles finished the first round 2-0-1, despite playing without theirnew star midfielder in any of the three games. While the Galaxy will play in thesemifinals on Aug. 14, FC Dallas was eliminated from the tournament, whichfeatures four MLS teams and four from Mexico.

Alan Gordon scored twice for Los Angeles.

Beckham, who has played only 16 minutes since joining the club on July 21,did not make the trip to Texas because of an ankle injury. Beckham’savailability for the club’s next game on Aug. 5 at Toronto FC, which would behis Major League Soccer debut, will not be determined until after practice onThursday.

The game started and ended with a flurry of goals as the teams combined forsix after the 78th minute, including four by FC Dallas as it almost erased afour-goal deficit.

The Galaxy scored four goals in the first 18 minutes of the game with goalsfrom Gordon in the third and 15th minutes and from Chris Klein in the 12thminute and Kevin Harmse in the 18th minute.

Carlos Pavon’s goal in the 95th minute which gave Los Angeles 6-4 leadproved to be the deciding score. Pavon fired a shot into the left corner of thenet from about 12 yards away with an assist from Donovan.

Seconds later, Abe Thompson closed out the scoring with a header in the 96thminute.

Donovan gave the Galaxy a 5-3 lead after he raced past two FCD defenders andplaced a shot into the right corner of the net from 15 yards away for anunassisted score in the 84th minute. But Carlos Ruiz responded for FC Dallaswith a goal in the 91st minute. FC Dallas had narrowed the lead to 4-3 afterArturo Alvarez scored his second goal of the game in the 82nd minute. Alvarezalso scored on a header in the 43rd minute.