{"id":432492,"date":"2026-08-14T05:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432492\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T05:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:24:17","slug":"match-preview-st-louis-city2-hits-the-road-to-take-on-san-jose-earthquakes-ii-on-sunday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432492\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Preview | St Louis CITY2 Hits the Road to Take On San Jose Earthquakes II on Sunday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Louis CITY2 travels to face\u00a0San Jose Earthquakes\u00a0on Sunday, August\u00a016, with kickoff set for\u00a09:30 p.m. CT at\u00a0CEFCU Stadium.\u00a0The match will be streamed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlsnextpro.com\/competitions\/mls-next-pro\/2026\/matches\/sjvsstl-08-16-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mlsnextpro.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0OneFootball.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis\u00a0won 3-1 in the penalty shootout following a 0-0 regulation draw at Colorado Rapids 2 last Saturday. Colin Welsh made three saves in the shootout, while Zack Lillington, Chris Pearson, and Zach Zengue converted their penalty kicks to secure the extra point. CITY2 moved into fifth place in the MLS NEXT Pro Western Conference standings with 35 points.\u00a0St. Louis earned their seventh clean sheet of the season,\u00a0while Welsh recorded his eighth career shutout.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday will mark the first\u00a0and only\u00a0meeting of the season between the two clubs. St. Louis is\u00a05-3-1 across all\u00a0competitions against Earthquakes II,\u00a0with the most recent meeting\u00a0taking place\u00a0on June 23, 2025. CITY2 won 3-1 at Energizer Park with goals from Matteo Kidd,\u00a0Mykhi Joyner, and Caden Glover. Current CITY2 player Riley Lynch\u00a0played for San Jose\/The Town FC for two seasons from 2024-25,\u00a0scoring\u00a0eight goals and\u00a0recording\u00a0four assists.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>San Jose Earthquakes II sit in eighth place in the Western Conference standings with 31 points and\u00a0an\u00a08-7-5 record. At home this year, San Jose is 5-3-1. Earthquakes II are winless\u00a0in their five most recent matches, picking up just three points during that time. San Jose faced Minnesota United FC2 last Saturday, drawing 1-1 in regulation\u00a0before\u00a0winning 3-1 in the penalty shootout. Midfielder Zachary Bohane\u00a0leads the team with seven goals,\u00a0while forward Julian Donnery and midfielder Edwyn Mendoza\u00a0have each registered four\u00a0assists\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Louis CITY2 travels to face\u00a0San Jose Earthquakes\u00a0on Sunday, August\u00a016, with kickoff set for\u00a09:30 p.m. CT at\u00a0CEFCU Stadium.\u00a0The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[136235,93,171785,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-432492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-city2","tag-featured","tag-next-pro","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\/432492","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=432492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}