San Jose Earthquakes (8-1-0, first in the Western Conference) vs. Saint Louis City SC (1-4-3, 15th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Old North Saint Louis, St. Louis; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Saint Louis +137, San Jose +171, Draw +258; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Preston Judd leads the San Jose Earthquakes into a matchup with Saint Louis City SC following a two-goal performance against Austin.<\/p>\n
Saint Louis is 0-4-1 in Western Conference games. Saint Louis is ninth in the MLS giving up just 13 goals.<\/p>\n
The Earthquakes are 6-1-0 in Western Conference games. The Earthquakes are 24-10 in games decided by one goal.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Marcel Hartel has scored two goals for Saint Louis. Simon Becher has one goal and one assist.<\/p>\n
Judd has five goals and two assists for the Earthquakes. Ousseni Bouda has five goals.<\/p>\n
SEASON SO FAR: Saint Louis: Averaging 0.9 goals, 4.3 shots on goal and 6.6 corner kicks through eight games while allowing 1.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: Averaging 2.4 goals, 6.4 shots on goal and 8.0 corner kicks through nine games while allowing 0.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Saint Louis: None listed.<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: DeJuan Jones (injured), Vitor Costa (injured).<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes (8-1-0, first in the Western Conference) vs. Saint Louis City SC (1-4-3, 15th in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9497,93047,96696,5341,16465,5337,5340,110011,121692,88,90,89,121693,19174,9496],"class_list":{"0":"post-283450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-dejuan-jones","9":"tag-marcel-hartel","10":"tag-ousseni-bouda","11":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","12":"tag-preston-judd","13":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","14":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","15":"tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","16":"tag-saint-louis-city-sc","17":"tag-san-jose","18":"tag-san-jose-headlines","19":"tag-san-jose-news","20":"tag-simon-becher","21":"tag-st-louis","22":"tag-vitor-costa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283450","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=283450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}