{"id":471087,"date":"2026-09-21T18:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471087\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:56:48","slug":"reid-roberts-hits-point-saving-golazo-for-quakes-energy-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471087\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid Roberts hits point-saving golazo for Quakes | Energy Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/reid-roberts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reid Roberts<\/a> put a stunning exclamation point on a wild Walmart Saturday Showdown.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-jose-earthquakes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Earthquakes<\/a> defender blasted home a long-range, last-gasp equalizer to salvage a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2026\/matches\/sjvslafc-09-19-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-2 draw<\/a> against 10-man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/los-angeles-football-club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LAFC<\/a> at Levi&#8217;s Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts&#8217; 98th-minute leveler earned the center back Energy\u00a0Moment of the Matchday presented by Celsius honors for Matchday 27.<\/p>\n<p>Down two goals after LAFC&#8217;s superstar duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/son-heung-min\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Son Heung-Min<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/denis-bouanga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denis Bouanga<\/a> struck on either side of halftime, San Jose rallied to secure an epic finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/preston-judd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Preston Judd<\/a> cut into the Black &amp; Gold&#8217;s lead in the 70th minute, giving the Quakes a momentum swing that Roberts capped off with a point-saving golazo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic draw extended San Jose&#8217;s unbeaten streak to five games (2W-0L-3D), keeping them just outside of the Western Conference top four as the Audi 2026 MLS Cup Playoffs chase heats up.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts and the Quakes return to their customary home at PayPal Park on Saturday to host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/portland-timbers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Timbers<\/a> (10:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/san-jose-earthquakes-vs-portland-timbers\/umc.cse.5o23ymt4h4s5wb98rz1xczjb6?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.4000%2Ctvs.sbd.7000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reid Roberts put a stunning exclamation point on a wild Walmart Saturday Showdown. The San Jose Earthquakes defender&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[185248,119502,88,1084,90,89,6532,183976],"class_list":["post-471087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-energy-moment-of-the-matchday","tag-reid-roberts","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sendtonews","tag-sjvslafc-09-19-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471087","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=471087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}