SEATTLE, WASH. \u2013 Sounders FC (7-1-3, 24 points) defeated the first-place San Jose Earthquakes (9-2-2, 29 points) 3-2 on Wednesday evening on the Emerald Queen Casino Pitch at Lumen Field. Albert Rusn\u00e1k, Jes\u00fas Ferreira and Osaze De Rosario scored for Seattle in a back-and-forth affair between Western Conference rivals, with the latter finding the match-winner in the 89th minute. With the win, the Rave Green capture the Heritage Cup after completing the season sweep over San Jose. Brian Schmetzer\u2019s side next concludes its three-match homestand on Saturday, May 16 against the LA Galaxy (6:15 p.m. PT \/ Apple TV, FS1, 93.3 KJR FM, El Rey 1360 AM).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The result puts Seattle in third place in the Western Conference with 21 points (7-1-3). The club is unbeaten in its last nine matches (6-0-3) in league play, with its lone loss coming on February 28 at RSL.<\/p>\n
Sounders FC is now responsible for both of San Jose\u2019s losses this season. The Earthquakes are currently tied with Vancouver atop the Western Conference with 29 points (9-2-2).<\/p>\n
With the win, Sounders FC captures the 2026 Heritage Cup,\u00a0an annual competition between Seattle and San Jose honoring the two teams that kept their names from the North American Soccer League.<\/p>\n
Albert Rusn\u00e1k\u2019s goal in the 43rd minute was his fifth goal of the season in all competitions, third on the team.<\/p>\n
Jes\u00fas Ferreira\u2019s goal in the 55th minute was his second of the season, both in MLS play.<\/p>\n
Osaze De Rosario\u2019s 89th-minute winner was his second of season, both in MLS play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nouhou and Cristian Roldan assisted De Rosario\u2019s winner, their first and fourth of the season in all competitions, respectively.\u00a0It was Roldan’s 76th career assist in all competitions for Seattle, second in club history.<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s match extended Seattle\u2019s home unbeaten streak to 22 matches (16-0-6), the longest streak in club history. The club\u2019s regular-season home unbeaten streak is now at 14, tied for the longest in club history (10-0-4).<\/p>\n
Seattle now concludes its three-match week with a fixture against the LA Galaxy on Saturday, March 16 on the Emerald Queen Casino Pitch at Lumen Field (6:15 p.m. PT \/ Apple TV, FS1, 93.3 KJR FM, El Rey 1360 AM).<\/p>\n
Seattle Sounders FC 3 \u2013 San Jose Earthquakes 2<\/p>\n
Assistants:\u00a0Chris Wattam, Stefan Tanaka-Freundt<\/p>\n
Fourth Official:\u00a0Ramy Touchan<\/p>\n
Weather:\u00a060 degrees and partly cloudy<\/p>\n
SJ \u2013\u00a0Nick Fernandez (Nonso Adimabua) 2\u2019<\/p>\n
SEA \u2013\u00a0Albert Rusn\u00e1k (penalty) 43\u2019<\/p>\n
SEA \u2013\u00a0Jes\u00fas Ferreira 55\u2019<\/p>\n
SJ \u2013\u00a0Preston Judd 69\u2019<\/p>\n
SEA \u2013\u00a0Osaze De Rosario (Nouhou, Cristian Roldan) 89\u2019<\/p>\n
SJ \u2013\u00a0Reid Roberts (caution) 45+2\u2019<\/p>\n
SJ \u2013\u00a0Preston Judd (caution) 58\u2019<\/p>\n
Seattle Sounders FC\u00a0\u2013 Andrew Thomas; Kalani Kossa-Rienzi (Peter Kingston 74\u2019), Alex Roldan, Jackson Ragen, Nouhou; Cristian Roldan \u2013 Captain, Snyder Brunell (Hassani Dotson 68\u2019); Jes\u00fas Ferreira, Albert Rusn\u00e1k (Osaze De Rosario 74\u2019), Paul Rothrock (Paul Arriola 82\u2019); Danny Musovski (Jordan Morris 68\u2019)<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used:\u00a0Stefan Frei, Kim Kee-hee, Antino Lopez, Sebastian Gomez<\/p>\n
San Jose Earthquakes\u00a0\u2013 Daniel; Jack Jasinski, Max Floriani, Reid Roberts, Dave Romney; Jonathan Gonzalez (Ian Harkes 64\u2019), Noel Buck (Beau Leroux 64\u2019); Jack Skahan (Jamar Ricketts 68\u2019), Nick Fernandez, Paul Marie (Ousseni Bouda HT); Nonso Adimabua (Preston Judd HT)<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used:\u00a0Nate Crockford, Benjamin Kikanovi\u0107, Daniel Munie, Ronaldo Vieira<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE, WASH. \u2013 Sounders FC (7-1-3, 24 points) defeated the first-place San Jose Earthquakes (9-2-2, 29 points) 3-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2975,38553,88522,100,4894,88,90,89,12816,131858],"class_list":["post-315722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2975","tag-app-news","tag-match-recap","tag-news","tag-press-release","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-seattle-sounders-fc","tag-seavssj-05-13-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315722","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=315722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}