{"id":522650,"date":"2026-03-08T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522650\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:04:09","slug":"timo-werner-bouda-help-san-jose-beat-union-for-quakes-best-start-to-mls-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522650\/","title":{"rendered":"Timo Werner, Bouda help San Jose beat Union for Quakes\u2019 best start to MLS season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CHESTER, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Timo Werner had his second assist in as many appearances for San Jose, Ousseni Bouda scored a goal, and the Earthquakes beat the Philadelphia Union 1-0 on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">San Jose (3-0-0) is off to the best start in club history. The Earthquakes started 2-0-1 on their way to the 2003 MLS Cup championship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Daniel De Sousa Britto \u2014 known simply as \u201cDaniel\u201d \u2014 had three saves for San Jose and has not allowed a goal this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Werner rolled a long through ball to Bouda, who slipped behind the defense for a first-touch finish from outside the 6-yard box in the 59th minute. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">1. Philadelphia (0-3-0) is off to its worst start since 2012 and already has two home losses this season, one more that all 2025 when the Union won the Supporter\u2019s Shield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andre Blake stopped two shots. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHESTER, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Timo Werner had his second assist in as many appearances for San Jose, Ousseni&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-522650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}