{"id":210050,"date":"2026-03-08T06:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210050\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:37:25","slug":"werner-and-bouda-help-san-jose-beat-union-1-0-for-quakes-best-start-to-mls-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210050\/","title":{"rendered":"Werner and Bouda help San Jose beat Union 1-0 for &#8216;Quakes best start to MLS season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">CHESTER, Pa. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/timo-werner-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timo Werner<\/a> had his second assist in as many appearances for San Jose, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/ousseni-bouda-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ousseni Bouda<\/a> scored a goal, and the Earthquakes beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/philadelphia-union-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Union<\/a> 1-0 on Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/mls\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS<\/a> Cup championship. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/daniel-de-sousa-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel De Sousa<\/a> 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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">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=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">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&#8217;s Shield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/andre-blake-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Blake<\/a> stopped two shots. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/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":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96697,81064,11203,96696,9330,88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-210050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-andre-blake","9":"tag-event_recap","10":"tag-mls","11":"tag-ousseni-bouda","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210050","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=210050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}