{"id":447883,"date":"2026-08-30T07:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447883\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T07:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:31:04","slug":"san-jose-earthquakes-end-4-game-losing-streak-with-0-0-draw-against-houston-dynamo-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447883\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes end 4-game losing streak with 0-0 draw against Houston Dynamo \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victories continue to elude the Earthquakes, who haven\u2019t won since May, but they used a revitalized defense to snap a four-game losing streak<\/a> with a 0-0 tie in Houston on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The draw against the second-place Dynamo (12-7-3) enabled San Jose (10-8-4) to maintain fourth place in the Western Conference, despite its last victory coming May 23 against Portland.<\/p>\n

Coach Bruce Arena sounded comfortable with where things stand for his team in the MLS table, despite the Quakes going 0-6-1 since the post-World Cup break in late May.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team played well. We\u2019re right in the thick of things at this point. It\u2019s all part of an MLS season,\u201d Arena said. \u201cThere\u2019s no teams in this league that are superior to anybody. The teams that people envision are at the bottom can beat anybody. That\u2019s MLS.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"HOUSTON,HOUSTON, TEXAS – AUGUST 29: Guilherme #20 of the Houston Dynamo FC and Daniel Munie #5 of the San Jose Earthquakes battle for ball possession during the first half of their match at Shell Energy Stadium on August 29, 2026 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Maria Lysaker\/Getty Images)\u00a0<\/p>\n

After allowing 13 goals in their last four matches, San Jose played with a three-man backline for the first time this season. The new formation, and a renewed focus on goal prevention, worked as planned as Quakes goalkeeper Angus Gunn earned his first-ever clean sheet with San Jose.<\/p>\n

Gunn\u2019s shutout was notable in that he didn\u2019t have to record a single save because the Dynamo didn\u2019t have a single shot on goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a very good week of training this week, I felt like everybody was prepared coming into this game,\u201d said San Jose midfielder and captain Ronaldo Vieira. \u201cAs you saw, we didn\u2019t give up a shot on goal, and I think that\u2019s also because our defense was very compact and organized tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Offensively, the Quakes kept pressure on Houston goalkeeper Jonathan Bond, who responded with four big saves while posting his sixth clean sheet in his last seven starts.<\/p>\n

Newly acquired Quakes midfielder Eduard L\u00f6wen<\/a> uncorked a shot from the edge of the box that forced Bond to make a diving save in the 57th minute. Ousseni Bouda and Niko Tsakiris almost connected moments later but the shot sailed over the crossbar. In the 77th minute, the ball ricocheted to Nick Fernandez in the box but his right-footed attempt was batted away by Bond.<\/p>\n

San Jose will have another road match next Saturday at Austin FC at 7:30 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victories continue to elude the Earthquakes, who haven\u2019t won since May, but they used a revitalized defense to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,402,181,7332,88,1084,90,89,198,1083,200,127],"class_list":["post-447883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-major-league-soccer","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\/447883","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=447883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}