The 30-year-old striker took centre stage after San Jose\u2019s seventh win in eight matches, scoring the second goal (56\u2019) and setting up the opener for Ousseni Bouda (53\u2019). \u201cYou can see that Timo is going to be a special player for us,\u201d manager Bruce Arena said. \u201cIt will take a little while for him to find his fitness and rhythm, but he is an exceptional player. He will be a great addition to our team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Werner, who joined the MLS from RB Leipzig in January, had been sidelined with injury for a spell but has now contributed one goal and three assists in five outings.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s twice as much fun when you score a nice goal,\u201d he said. \u201cOverall, it was important for me to get my name on the scoreboard again. I\u2019m glad I could contribute and that we won,\u201d Werner added.<\/p>\n
San Jose now has 21 points, matching Thomas M\u00fcller\u2019s Vancouver Whitecaps at the top of the Western Conference, while LAFC sit third on 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 30-year-old striker took centre stage after San Jose\u2019s seventh win in eight matches, scoring the second goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9494,119596,7332,88,1084,90,89,67136],"class_list":{"0":"post-276586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-los-angeles-fc","9":"tag-los-angeles-fc-vs-san-jose-earthquakes","10":"tag-major-league-soccer","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-earthquakes","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-t-werner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276586","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=276586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}