{"id":310260,"date":"2026-05-11T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310260\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:13:46","slug":"sebastian-berhalter-salvages-draw-for-vancouver-against-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310260\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Berhalter Salvages Draw for Vancouver Against San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Berhalter scored a crucial second-half goal to secure a 1-1 draw for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koranmanado.co.id\/en\/tag\/vancouver-whitecaps\" title=\"Vancouver Whitecaps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Whitecaps<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koranmanado.co.id\/en\/tag\/san-jose-earthquakes\" title=\"San Jose Earthquakes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Earthquakes<\/a> at PayPal Park on Saturday, May 9, 2026. The result shared the points between the Western Conference rivals in a closely contested Major League Soccer match.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose initially took a 1-0 lead into the halftime break following a dominant opening period. According to match data from Marca, the Earthquakes effectively pressured the Vancouver defense, with Benji Kikanovic and Preston Judd creating several dangerous opportunities before the interval.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver found their breakthrough later in the second half when Berhalter struck a right-footed shot into the right side of the goal. The equalizer followed a series of tactical adjustments by Vancouver manager Jesper S\u00f8rensen, who introduced Emmanuel Sabbi and Kenji Cabrera to bolster the attack.<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                            <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/QKxcG0E5Q2.jpeg\" alt=\"Vancouver Whitecaps Host Colorado Rapids Before World Cup Break\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<\/p>\n<p>The match was characterized by physical play, with the referee issuing yellow cards to San Jose&#8217;s Benji Kikanovic and Jack Skahan, as well as Vancouver&#8217;s Berhalter. Match reports from ysscores.com noted that San Jose deployed a 4-2-3-1 formation led by Daniel in goal, while Vancouver mirrored the setup under goalkeeper Takaoka.<\/p>\n<p>Despite seven minutes of added time and late attempts from San Jose&#8217;s Ronaldo Vieira and Jack Skahan, the Whitecaps held firm to preserve the point. As reported by TyC Sports, the match was broadcast globally via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koranmanado.co.id\/en\/tag\/mls\" title=\"MLS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS<\/a> Season Pass on Apple TV as part of the 12th round of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Berhalter scored a crucial second-half goal to secure a 1-1 draw for the Vancouver Whitecaps against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[92275,87806,88,1084,90,89,129647,43407],"class_list":["post-310260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-mls-2026","tag-paypal-park","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sebastian-berhalter","tag-vancouver-whitecaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310260","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=310260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}