SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES vs HOUSTON DYNAMO
AVAYA STADIUM, San Jose, Calif.
July 10, 2015 (WEEK 19, MLS Game #185)
11 pm ET (UniMas)
The San Jose Earthquakes and Houston Dynamo renew their rivalry for a second time this season when the Western Conference clubs meet at Avaya Stadium on Viernes de Fútbol. Both teams come into the game outside of the top six in the division. The Quakes sit two points out of the final playoff position, seeing their two-game winning run put to an end in a 1-0 loss at the Portland Timbers last weekend. The Dynamo are a further four points further back, winless over their last three matches following a 1-1 home draw with the Chicago Fire last week.
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REFEREE: Sorin Stoica. AR1 (bench): Chris Strickland; AR2 (opposite): Jason White; 4th: Baldomero Toledo
MLS Career: 36 games; FC/gm: 28.6; Y/gm: 4.1; R: 18; pens: 20
SUSPENDED: SJ: Jordan Stewart (through July 12)
WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: HOU: Ricardo Clark, Luis Garrido, Kofi Sarkodie, Jermaine Taylor, Giles Barnes
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: SJ: Fatai Alashe, Clarence Goodson … HOU: Raul Rodriguez
DISABLED LIST: none
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: SJ: Chris Wondolowski (USA, CONCACAF Gold Cup); Cordell Cato (Trinidad & Tobago, CONCACAF Gold Cup) … HOU: Boniek Garcia, Luis Garrido (Honduras, CONCACAF Gold Cup); Giles Barnes, Jermaine Taylor (Jamaica, CONCACAF Gold Cup)
HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (13 meetings): Earthquakes 6 wins, 17 goals … Dynamo 6 wins, 16 goals … Ties 1
AT SAN JOSE (7 meetings): Earthquakes 4 wins, 11 goals … Dynamo 2 wins, 6 goals … Ties 1
FUTURE MATCH: 8/8: Houston Dynamo vs. San Jose Earthquakes, 7 p.m. CT
- The teams are meeting for the second time this season. Adam Jahn scored the game’s only goal to give the Earthquakes the victory, May 5 at BBVA Compass Stadium.
- The Quakes have won the last two meetings in the series, their first wins against the Dynamo since 2011.
- The two teams have shared a pitched rivalry since the Earthquakes returned to the league in 2008, after the Dynamo moved to Houston from San Jose in 2006. Each team has won six meetings, with one draw.
- This will be first year since 2011 the series will include more than one meeting during the regular season, with both clubs now in the Western Conference.
- Coaches record: Dominic Kinnear vs. HOU: P1 W1 L0 T0 … Owen Coyle vs. SJ: P1 W0 L1 T0
LAST MEETING (MLS)
5/5: HOU 0, SJ 1 (Jahn 54)
- The game's only goal came in the 54th minute. A quick free kick from the right flank by Quakes midfielder Matias Perez Garcia caught the Houston defense napping, and the service into the middle of box found Adam Jahn unmarked for a header inside the far post.
- The Dynamo nearly answered three minutes later after Boniek Garcia weaved his through the San Jose defense before being taken down in the six-yard box by San Jose goalkeeper David Bingham, and referee Ricardo Salazar awarded a penalty. But the ensuing spot kick from Giles Barnes was sent low to the right post, and Bingham made a diving save to his left to bat the ball outside the post.
- HOUSTON DYNAMO (4-2-3-1): Tyler Deric - Kofi Sarkodie (David Horst 83), Raul Rodriguez, Jermaine Taylor, DaMarcus Beasley - Luis Garrido, Ricardo Clark - Boniek Garcia (Rob Lovejoy 74), Brad Davis, Alexander Lopez (Will Bruin 65) - Giles Barnes.
- SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES (4-1-2-3): David Bingham - Marvell Wynne, Victor Bernardez, Clarence Goodson, Jordan Stewart - Fatai Alashe (JJ Koval 29) - Chris Wondolowski, Matias Perez Garcia (Tommy Thompson 83) - Sanna Nyassi (Cordell Cato 65), Adam Jahn, Shea Salinas
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