{"id":234157,"date":"2026-03-24T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:23:35","slug":"leroux-daniel-lead-earthquakes-to-1-0-victory-handing-whitecaps-first-loss-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234157\/","title":{"rendered":"Leroux, Daniel lead Earthquakes to 1-0 victory, handing Whitecaps first loss of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, British Columbia \u2014 Beau Leroux scored in first-half stoppage time and Daniel De Sousa Britto made it stand as the San Jose Earthquakes cooled off Vancouver with a 1-0 victory on Saturday night, ruining the start of a five-match homestand for the Whitecaps.<\/p>\n<p>Leroux scored unassisted in the second minute of stoppage time to give the Earthquakes (4-1-0) the lead for good. Leroux&#8217;s first goal this season comes after scoring five times in 33 matches as a rookie last year.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel finished with six saves in posting his fourth clean sheet in five starts this season and his 15th in 68 career starts \u2014 all with the Earthquakes. He&#8217;s never had more than five in one season.<\/p>\n<p>Yohei Takaoka saved one shot on goal for the Whitecaps (4-1-0), who outscored their opponents 14-1 in winning their first four matches.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver falls into a second-place tie with San Jose, one point behind Los Angeles FC in a hotly-contested Western Conference that boasts seven teams with at least three victories through the first five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Earthquakes also evened the series at 13-13-12.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver entered the match with a 20-4-7 all-time record at BC Place under head coach Jesper S\u00f8rensen.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"San Jose Earthquakes' Jamar Ricketts (2) and Preston Judd (19)...\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433.125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774362215_628_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>San Jose Earthquakes&#8217; Jamar Ricketts (2) and Preston Judd (19) trip Vancouver Whitecaps&#8217; Edier Ocampo (18) during the first half of an MLS soccer match in Vancouver, on Saturday, March 21, 2026. Credit: AP\/ETHAN CAIRNS<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis City was the last team to open with five straight victories \u2014 doing so in its 2023 expansion. season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>San Jose: Hosts San Diego FC on April 4.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver: Hosts the Portland Timbers on April 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia \u2014 Beau Leroux scored in first-half stoppage time and Daniel De Sousa Britto made it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,1084,90,89,1083,40873,3563],"class_list":["post-234157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-soccer","tag-vancouver-whitecaps-fc","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234157","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=234157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}