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No one felt it more than left back Jayden Reid.

Eight minutes before, it was Reid’s slip and fall after Joey Zalensky played a pass back to him that set the Galaxy’s Gabriel Pec free on a breakaway that put the Galaxy up 3-2 in the 88th minute and looked to add one more level of frustration to an exceedingly frustrating season for City SC.

“Not the best feeling ... at all,� Reid said Monday.

Klauss’ goal got him off the hook, at least partially.

“I was definitely relieved a little bit,� Reid said Monday. “I wasn’t happy with myself that much in that moment, but I was definitely relieved with that (goal).�

Reid is chalking it up as a learning experience, one he can put to use when City SC resumes play after a 10-day break when it faces Orlando City, which sits in fifth place in the Eastern Conference, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Energizer Park.

Reid, 23, is the youngest regular starter in the City SC lineup and he’s got even more starts ahead of him as the team’s other left back, the more experienced Jannes Horn, is heading back to Europe to be closer to his family in Germany. Horn’s loan to City SC runs through June 30 — and his German club, Nuremberg, transferred him to Austrian club Rapid Vienna last week — but interim ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ David Critchley said it’s unlikely Horn would play in either of City SC’s games between now and then.

So the left back position once again belongs to Reid.

“It’s definitely a moment I can learn from,� he said. “I like to take moments like that and like to grow from them. So it wasn’t the best thing. It was a terrible feeling. But I’ll be more equipped next game.�

The play was loaded with risk from the start. Zalensky’s pass to Reid had to cover a lot of ground. Pec got to Reid just as the ball got to him, and when Reid turned to play the ball back to goalkeeper Roman Burki, he fell.

“I slipped,� he said. “Flat out, slipped. There’s no other way to put it, but now looking back at it, I would have just hoofed that ball into the stands. I always want to retain possession. The way we play now, we always want to dominate on the ball. So I was looking to just let the ball roll, as I do many times. But unfortunately, the slip got me, and he got through.�

Reid has 10 career MLS starts at left back, coming up from City2 last season and taking the spot from Anthony Markanich and then losing it to Horn when he arrived. Any competition for the spot this season disappeared when Reid broke a bone in his right foot in a private training session just before camp began.

“Just like I shoot any other ball,� he said, “I run up to shoot, and I might have put too much weight on my plant foot, causing it to roll. I had an acute fracture of my fifth metatarsal. I didn’t think anything was wrong. I tried to play on it afterward, and I was just in pain a lot. I’m like, dang, maybe it will wear off in a couple of hours. So I go home and chill and the pain is still there. So I say I’ll sleep on it. I sleep on it, wake up and the foot is swollen. I go to the ER and find out it’s broken. ... The timing couldn’t have been any worse.�

Though he says now, maybe his timing wasn’t so bad. He wasn’t going to be playing much early in the season, when Horn was the clear first choice, but now with Horn’s departure, the team needs Reid. Sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel will likely look for another left back in the summer transfer window, which opens in July, but until then, it will be up to Reid. He has started all three games that Critchley has been running the team.

“Jay has been doing great,� Critchley said. “He’s clearly put himself in as a left back, but he also finds moments of being tucked in a little bit at times as well. But he’s come in, he’s took on the position well. He’s defending really good. We know his capabilities on the physical side, and his defending 1 v. 1 moments is very, very good. He’s improving on the ball, always consistently. So as a young pro, as a young player, I’m excited for his future and what that looks like for him. He’s doing a good job.�

While City SC’s offense has come alive, with six goals (four by Klauss) in three games under Critchley, it has also allowed six goals, the defense was getting iffy in the last days of Olof Mellberg.

“We need a strong mentality,� Critchley said. “A lot of the goals have come after moments where we’ve identically scored a goal. So talking to the team about those moments has been important for us. For us, it’s finding that balance. We’ve improved a lot with the ball in a lot of categories, but you can then leave yourself maybe vulnerable to defensive moments. So finding that balance is something we’re working on constantly on the field, so that we can concede less goals.�

Midfielder Conrad Wallem, who played only 21 minutes against the Galaxy before leaving with a calf injury that he already had, was back in training this week, and Critchley said he should be available. The rest of the injured City SC players continue to be out, though Critchley thinks there’s a chance Chris Durkin is available for Saturday’s game in Houston.