{"id":199739,"date":"2026-03-01T22:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199739\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:13:13","slug":"san-jose-2-0-atlanta-feb-28-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199739\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose 2-0 Atlanta (Feb 28, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/295339\/Preston-Judd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Preston Judd<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/300420\/Ousseni-Bouda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ousseni Bouda<\/a> each scored a goal on Saturday night to help the San Jose Earthquakes beat Atlanta United 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Judd gave San Jose a 1-0 lead in the 24th minute. Following an Atlanta turnover in its defensive half, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/380800\/Jamar-Ricketts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamar Ricketts<\/a> raced to the left corner of the 18-yard box and lobbed a cross to the front post, where Judd skipped a header into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Designated player <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/191088\/Timo-Werner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timo Werner<\/a>, a 29-year-old forward acquired in late January, made his MLS debut when he subbed on for Judd in the 61st minute.<\/p>\n<p>On the counter-attack in the 79th minute, Werner played a cross from the right side to a charging Bouda for a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2027932129594593620\" rel=\"nofollow\">half-volley finish<\/a> from point-blank range that made it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Earthquakes (2-0-0) had just 45% possession but outshot Atlanta 13-8, 6-1 on target.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel De Sousa Britto &#8212; known simply as &#8220;Daniel&#8221; &#8212; had a save and recorded his second consecutive shutout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/109193\/Lucas-Hoyos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Hoyos<\/a> had four saves for Atlanta (0-2-0). The 36-year-old Hoyo replaced 41-year-old Brad Guzan, who retired at the end of last season after making 225 appearances over the club&#8217;s first nine MLS seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212;\u00a0Preston Judd and Ousseni Bouda each scored a goal on Saturday night to help the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-199739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}