San Jose Earthquakes (10-4-3, second in the Western Conference) vs. FC Cincinnati (6-6-5, sixth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Cincinnati; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: FC Cincinnati -111, San Jose +228, Draw +304; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Cincinnati and the San Jose Earthquakes meet in non-conference action.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati is 5-2-1 at home. Cincinnati leads the Eastern Conference with 95 shots on goal, averaging 5.6 per game. Cincinnati is also second in MLS play with 41 goals.<\/p>\n
The Earthquakes are 6-1-1 in road games. The Earthquakes have scored 35 goals while giving up 20 for a +15 goal differential.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin Denkey has scored 11 goals and added two assists for Cincinnati. Evander has 10 goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Preston Judd has scored 11 goals and added two assists for the Earthquakes. Paul Marie has three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Cincinnati: 21-4-5, averaging 9.3 goals, 17.4 shots on goal and 10.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 7.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: 17-5-8, averaging 6.6 goals, 17.7 shots on goal and 18.9 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Cincinnati: Gerardo Valenzuela (injured), Kristian Fletcher (injured), Matt Miazga (injured).<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: Nonso Adimabua (injured), Niko Tsakiris (injured), DeJuan Jones (injured), Earl Edwards Jr. (injured).<\/p>\n
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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 (10-4-3, second in the Western Conference) vs. FC Cincinnati (6-6-5, sixth in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[24993,9497,125366,12818,167908,167909,167910,9223,18709,167907,16465,88,1084,90,89,1083,127],"class_list":["post-420163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-cincinnati","tag-dejuan-jones","tag-earl-edwards","tag-fc-cincinnati","tag-gerardo-valenzuela","tag-kevin-denkey","tag-kristian-fletcher","tag-mls-soccer","tag-niko-tsakiris","tag-paul-marie","tag-preston-judd","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420163","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=420163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}