Vancouver Whitecaps FC (8-1-1, second in the Western Conference) vs. San Jose Earthquakes (9-1-1, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Jose, California; Saturday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Vancouver +128, San Jose +189, Draw +252; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Earthquakes and the Vancouver Whitecaps take the pitch in conference action.<\/p>\n
The Earthquakes are 7-1-0 in Western Conference games. The Earthquakes have a 10-0-2 record in games they score two goals.<\/p>\n
The Whitecaps are 6-1-1 against Western Conference opponents. The Whitecaps are second in the league allowing only six goals.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season. The Earthquakes won the last meeting 1-0.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Preston Judd has seven goals and two assists for the Earthquakes. Ousseni Bouda has scored five goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Thomas Muller has scored four goals with one assist for the Whitecaps. Brian White has eight goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Earthquakes: 25-2-3, averaging 6.9 goals, 18.0 shots on goal and 20.7 corner kicks per game while allowing 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Whitecaps: 25-2-3, averaging 7.8 goals, 20.7 shots on goal and 17.7 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Earthquakes: Earl Edwards Jr. (injured), Timo Werner (injured), DeJuan Jones (injured), Vitor Costa (injured).<\/p>\n
Whitecaps: Sam Adekugbe (injured), Belal Halbouni (injured), Ralph-William Johnson Priso-Mbongue (injured), Sebastian Schonlau (injured), Ryan Gauld (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":"Vancouver Whitecaps FC (8-1-1, second in the Western Conference) vs. San Jose Earthquakes (9-1-1, first in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[128936,44139,9497,125366,96696,5341,16465,5337,5340,128934,128937,88,1084,90,89,128935,104147,53488,9496],"class_list":["post-306443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-belal-halbouni","tag-brian-white","tag-dejuan-jones","tag-earl-edwards","tag-ousseni-bouda","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-preston-judd","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-ryan-gauld","tag-sam-adekugbe","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sebastian-schonlau","tag-thomas-muller","tag-timo-werner","tag-vitor-costa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306443","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=306443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}