{"id":291534,"date":"2026-04-29T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291534\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:12:09","slug":"atlanta-united-san-jose-earthquakes-reach-us-open-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291534\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta United, San Jose Earthquakes reach US Open Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      Charlotte FC 0, Atlanta United 2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/aleksey-miranchuk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexey Miranchuk<\/a> led Atlanta to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/u-s-open-cup\/2026\/matches\/cltvsatl-04-28-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-0 victory<\/a> over southern rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/charlotte-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte FC<\/a> at Mecklenburg County Sportsplex.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Russian international opened the scoring with a looping curler from just inside the box, then homegrown midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/cooper-sanchez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Sanchez<\/a> sealed the victory with his first career goal for Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>22&#8242; &#8211; ATL &#8211; Alexey Miranchuk | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/golazoamerica\/status\/2049270689836728812?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">WATCH<\/a><br \/>\n71&#8242; &#8211; ATL &#8211; Cooper Sanchez | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/golazoamerica\/status\/2049287974123176283?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n      San Jose Earthquakes 4, Minnesota United FC 2<\/p>\n<p>Amid a historic start to the MLS campaign, San Jose kept momentum going in USOC play with a back-and-forth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/u-s-open-cup\/2026\/matches\/sjvsmin-04-28-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-2 win<\/a> over visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/minnesota-united-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing marquee offseason signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/timo-werner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timo Werner<\/a> to injury in the 34th minute, the Quakes took a 1-0 lead into halftime courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/beau-lerouox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beau Leroux<\/a>&#8216;s quick feet and finish.<\/p>\n<p>The Loons briefly flipped the script after halftime, scoring two goals within four minutes. But a deflection helped the Quakes equalize, Leroux notched his brace for the eventual game-winner, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/niko-tsakiris\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niko Tsakiris<\/a> put the cherry on top with an unselfish assist from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/ousseni-bouda-x9038\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ousseni Bouda<\/a> to secure advancement.<\/p>\n<p>15&#8242; &#8211; SJ &#8211; Beau Leroux | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/golazoamerica\/status\/2049314596675100886?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">WATCH<\/a><br \/>\n59&#8242; &#8211; MIN &#8211; Ronaldo Vieira (OG) | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/golazoamerica\/status\/2049330473600532763?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">WATCH<\/a><br \/>\n63&#8242; &#8211; MIN &#8211; Tom\u00e1s Chancalay | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/golazoamerica\/status\/2049331177245327512?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">WATCH<\/a><br \/>\n68&#8242; &#8211; SJ &#8211; Devin Padelford (OG) | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/golazoamerica\/status\/2049332326002282969?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">WATCH<\/a><br \/>\n73&#8242; &#8211; SJ &#8211; Beau Leroux | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/golazoamerica\/status\/2049333811180171666?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">WATCH<\/a><br \/>\n75&#8242; &#8211; SJ &#8211; Niko Tsakiris | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/golazoamerica\/status\/2049334724728901842?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte FC 0, Atlanta United 2 Alexey Miranchuk led Atlanta to a\u00a02-0 victory over southern rivals Charlotte FC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[92617,124351,11413,88,1084,90,89,6532,123476,75015],"class_list":["post-291534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-atlanta-united","tag-cltvsatl-04-28-2026","tag-match-reaction","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-sjvsmin-04-28-2026","tag-us-open-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291534","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=291534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}