{"id":410569,"date":"2026-07-24T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410569\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:49:09","slug":"scotlands-angus-gunn-concedes-four-in-san-jose-earthquakes-debut-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410569\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s Angus Gunn concedes four in San Jose Earthquakes debut defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Visiting centre-half David Brekalo was left unmarked as he headed home Eduard Atuesta&#8217;s free-kick with just seven minutes gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winger Ivan Angulo doubled City&#8217;s lead in the 29th minute with a powerful low drive into the far corner from just outside the penalty box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France legend Antoine Griezmann marked his debut following the 35-year-old forward&#8217;s move from Atletico Madrid by firing home from just inside the box three minutes after the break as Gunn was left exposed by a loss of possession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paraguay midfielder Braian Ojeda completed the rout in the 73rd minute as his header squeezed between Gunn and the near post from another Atuesta set piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the other end, Gunn&#8217;s opposite number, Canada&#8217;s Maxime Crepeau, produced several fine saves, a couple denying Timo Werner a scoring debut for San Jose after the Germany striker&#8217;s move from RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the defeat, Gunn&#8217;s side remain tied on points at the top of the Western Conference but second on goal difference behind Vancouver Whitecaps, who lost 4-3 away to Cincinnati but have a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">San Jose are fourth in the overall table, with Nashville leading ahead of Argentina forward Lionel Messi&#8217;s Inter Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gunn&#8217;s side next host LA Galaxy, who are ninth in the Eastern Conference, on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visiting centre-half David Brekalo was left unmarked as he headed home Eduard Atuesta&#8217;s free-kick with just seven minutes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-410569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410569","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=410569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}