San Jose Earthquakes (9-3-2, second in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Timbers (4-7-2, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Saturday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Portland +142, San Jose +150, Draw +284; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Portland Timbers and the San Jose Earthquakes square off in Western Conference play.<\/p>\n
The Timbers are 3-6-1 in conference matchups. The Timbers are 9-0-0 when they score more than two goals.<\/p>\n
The Earthquakes are 7-3-1 against Western Conference opponents. The Earthquakes rank second in the MLS with 31 goals led by Preston Judd with nine.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin Kelsy has five goals and one assist for the Timbers. Kristoffer Velde has four goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Judd has scored nine goals and added two assists for the Earthquakes. Niko Tsakiris has two goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Timbers: 13-10-7, averaging 5.1 goals, 13.2 shots on goal and 12.3 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: 22-2-6, averaging 7.5 goals, 16.8 shots on goal and 19.2 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Timbers: Zac Mcgraw (injured), Jose Caicedo (injured), Omir Fernandez (injured).<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: Niko Tsakiris (injured), DeJuan Jones (injured), Vitor Costa (injured), Earl Edwards Jr. (injured), Timo Werner (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 (9-3-2, second in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Timbers (4-7-2, 13th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9497,125366,136067,122790,122782,18709,136068,5341,130,6533,16465,5337,5340,108629,88,90,89,53488,9496,136066],"class_list":["post-327525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-dejuan-jones","tag-earl-edwards","tag-jose-caicedo","tag-kevin-kelsy","tag-kristoffer-velde","tag-niko-tsakiris","tag-omir-fernandez","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-portland","tag-portland-timbers","tag-preston-judd","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40808-ap-oregon-sports-only","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-timo-werner","tag-vitor-costa","tag-zac-mcgraw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327525","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=327525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327525\/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=327525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}