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 \u00a9 Data Skrive. All rights reserved.<\/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":192546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,9222,7332,895,9223,545,6533,897,9221,88,1084,90,89,1083,127,2498,1704],"class_list":["post-327801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-data-skrive","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-men","tag-mls-soccer","tag-oregon","tag-portland-timbers","tag-professional","tag-recap","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-western-conference","tag-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327801","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=327801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}