The\u202f San\u00a0Jose Earthquakes\u202fhead to Southern California on Wednesday, August 19, to face the LA Galaxy in the 106th California Clasico across all competitions.\u00a0Kickoff from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson is slated for 7:30 p.m. PT, with the match to be broadcast on Apple TV (English\/Spanish), FS1 (English), FOX Deportes (Spanish), as well as via local radio on KSFO 810 AM (English) and La\u00a0Kaliente\u00a01370 AM (Spanish).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Quakes will be looking to return to the win column after a setback last Saturday against St. Louis CITY SC. Playmaker Niko Tsakiris returned to the lineup for the first time since May 2 after undergoing surgery on his right groin. At the time of the injury, the 21-year-old from nearby Saratoga had established himself as one of the top attacking midfielders in the league after helping lead the Earthquakes to an MLS-best\u00a09-1-1\u00a0record.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
To demonstrate how dominant Tsakiris had been before his absence, despite not playing in over three months (a span of seven league games), he still ranked in the top 10 among all MLS players this season in assists (7), crosses (23), corner kicks (54) and chances created per 90 minutes (3.5) upon his return.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Earthquakes stand fourth in the Western Conference (10-6-3, 33 points) entering Wednesday\u2019s rivalry clash in Southern California, while the Galaxy\u00a0are\u00a013th (5-8-7, 22 points). In their first meeting this season at Stanford Stadium, the two teams battled to a 1-1 draw in front of 43,026 fans to crack the top 10 of highest-attended games in Major League Soccer this season. Joseph Paintsil opened the scoring for\u00a0LA\u00a0but Reid Roberts equalized for the Quakes to salvage the point.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Galaxy enters Wednesday’s fixture winless in five matches since the World Cup break, having lost three matches amongst the return of play, with their most recent result being a 1-0 road defeat to the Houston Dynamo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, throw the records out the window when it comes to derbies, especially the most historic and intense rivalry in Major League Soccer. Not only will the Galaxy be hosting the Cali Clasico,\u00a0they\u2019ve\u00a0added two quality players since the first match in Mexican National Team star Hirving \u201cChucky\u201d Lozano and former FC Barcelona standout Sergi Roberto. To add that firepower to an established star like Marco Reus\u2014who set up Paintsil\u2019s goal in Stanford\u2014presents a challenge for the Earthquakes\u2019 back line to return to its early form.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Additionally, a pair of legendary coaches\u2014San Jose\u2019s Bruce Arena and LA Galaxy\u2019s Greg Vanney, who share between them seven Audi MLS\u202fCups\u2014will\u202f match\u00a0wits once more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the season series on the line and the Western Conference standings\u202ftightening each week, the Quakes look to avenge their frustrating\u00a0previous\u00a0Cali Clasico result against a Galaxy side that is fighting tooth and nail to get back in the playoff picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u202f San\u00a0Jose Earthquakes\u202fhead to Southern California on Wednesday, August 19, to face the LA Galaxy in the 106th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-439085","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\/439085","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=439085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}