Los Angeles FC (11-8-7, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. San Jose Earthquakes (12-8-5, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Santa Clara, California; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: LAFC<\/a> +117, San Jose +185, Draw +276; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: A game after shutting out the Houston Dynamo<\/a> 1-0, the San Jose Earthquakes host Los Angeles FC.<\/p>\n The Earthquakes are 10-6-4 in conference games. The Earthquakes are 39-0-0 when they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n LAFC is 8-8-6 in conference matchups. LAFC leads the Western Conference with 169 corner kicks drawn, averaging 6.5 per game.<\/p>\n Saturday’s game is the first time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Preston Judd<\/a> has scored 12 goals and added two assists for the Earthquakes. Niko Tsakiris<\/a> has one goal and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Denis Bouanga<\/a> has 13 goals and five assists for LAFC. Heung Min Son has scored four goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Earthquakes: 9-12-9, averaging 3.0 goals, 12.0 shots on goal and 12.6 corner kicks per game while allowing 6.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n LAFC: 13-6-11, averaging 4.2 goals, 12.9 shots on goal and 22.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.0 goals per game.<\/p>\n NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Earthquakes: Max Floriani<\/a> (injured), DeJuan Jones<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n LAFC: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles FC (11-8-7, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. San Jose Earthquakes (12-8-5, fifth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9497,17063,6666,9494,184207,11203,18709,16465,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-467713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-dejuan-jones","tag-denis-bouanga","tag-houston","tag-los-angeles-fc","tag-max-floriani","tag-mls","tag-niko-tsakiris","tag-preston-judd","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\/467713","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=467713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}