{"id":438488,"date":"2026-08-20T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438488\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T16:40:46","slug":"san-jose-earthquakes-slump-continues-as-paintsils-short-handed-goal-lifts-la-galaxy-to-1-0-victory-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438488\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes\u2019 slump continues as Paintsil\u2019s short-handed goal lifts LA Galaxy to 1-0 victory \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"

CARSON, Calif. \u2014 The Earthquakes<\/a> continued their stumble since the MLS restart as the short-handed Los Angeles Galaxy snapped their five-match winless streak in a 1-0 win over San Jose in the 106th edition of the California Clasico on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Earthquakes (10-7-3, 33 points) dropped their third straight match and saw their winless streak reach five matches in front of 15,435 at Dignity Health Sports Park, despite playing the entire second half with a man advantage.<\/p>\n

Joseph Paintsil scored a short-handed goal in the 79th minute as the Galaxy (6-8-7, 25 points) moved into 10th place in the Western Conference, one spot behind the ninth-place Portland Timbers (27 points).<\/p>\n

Paintsil used assists<\/a> from rookie defender Harbor Miller and Marco Reus to find the net for the fifth time this season. Miller\u2019s helper was his second, while Reus collected his seventh.<\/p>\n

The Galaxy were forced to play a man down from the 45th minute on after midfielder Lucas Sanabria was tagged with a pair of yellow cards in the final nine minutes of the first half.<\/p>\n

Former Quakes goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski saved five shots for Los Angeles as the De La Salle High grad earned his third clean sheet in 16 starts this season.<\/p>\n

San Jose coach Bruce Arena bemoaned his team\u2019s missed opportunities on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should\u2019ve scored two or three goals in the game. We have no excuses. We played well enough in both halves to win the game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Angus Gunn totaled six saves for San Jose (10-7-3) in his fifth MLS start. The 30-year-old surrendered 12 goals in his first four outings.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles snapped a 0-3-3 winless skid and won for the first time since beating the Sounders 2-0 in Seattle on May 16.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second half, even going down a man, it kind of clarified some things, which is you can\u2019t really go out and press, you\u2019ve got to stay together, which is something that I was trying to get the guys to pay attention to in the first half.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Earthquakes came out aggressive Wednesday. They had the first opportunity to score in the fourth minute when first-time starter Luka Jovanovi\u0107 drew goalie Marcinkowski off his line and dished to an open Paul Marie in the box, but the Frenchman\u2019s shot was cleared off the line by Jakob Glesnes. Five minutes later, Jamar Ricketts connected with Jovanovi\u0107 just outside the six-yard box, but his ensuing blast was denied by Marcinkowski. The Quakes again unleashed another shot on target in minute 12 when Jack Jasinski received a pass in the box and belted an attempt for the far post to force a kick save from Marcinkowski.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no excuses on our end. We easily could\u2019ve scored three goals tonight,\u201d Arena said. \u201cThat game should\u2019ve been over, and you get into the 70th minute, and LA should\u2019ve been chasing the game. No excuses on our part. We just failed to execute. Give them credit. They played hard. Their goalkeeper made a couple outstanding saves. But it\u2019s all on us. I would\u2019ve been disappointed with a draw to be honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

San Jose, which is 0-4-1 since July 1, tried to find the breakthrough while the Galaxy was down to 10 men. San Jose\u2019s second-half substitute Preston Judd had a pair of chances after coming on at the hour mark, but the first shot was over the crossbar and the second was saved at point-blank range by Marcinkowski.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second half, even going down a man, it kind of clarified some things, which is you can\u2019t really go out and press,\u201d said Galaxy coach Greg Vanney. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to stay together, which is something that I was trying to get the guys to pay attention to in the first half.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quakes defender Dave Romney admitted the losing streak is frustrating but that it\u2019s something they can fix collectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all extremely competitive guys and we want to win, so it\u2019s frustrating not to get a win in a while,\u201d Romney said. \u201cBut the group is very tight-knit and really close. It\u2019s not like anyone\u2019s pointing fingers, but we know collectively we need to be better as a whole. \u2026. We hold ourselves to a high standard and we need to be better than this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notable<\/p>\n

San Jose, which is in fourth place in the Western Conference, one point behind LAFC and five points back of first-place Houston, will host Minnesota United at PayPal Park at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.
\nThe Quakes and Galaxy played to a 1-1 draw in San Jose earlier this season.
\nHirving \u201cChucky\u201d Lozano started in his first home match for the Galaxy after coming off the bench last time out in his debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARSON, Calif. \u2014 The Earthquakes continued their stumble since the MLS restart as the short-handed Los Angeles Galaxy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,402,7332,100,88,1084,90,89,198,1083,200,127],"class_list":["post-438488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-inside-sports","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-soccer","tag-south-bay","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438488","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=438488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}