San Jose Earthquakes (13-8-9, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. FC Dallas (14-7-9, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Frisco, Texas; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: FC Dallas -142, San Jose +310, Draw +316; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Earthquakes face Dallas after playing to a draw in three straight games.<\/p>\n
Dallas is 11-6-9 against Western Conference opponents. Petar Musa leads the eighth-ranked scoring team in the league with 20 goals. Dallas has scored 55.<\/p>\n
The Earthquakes are 11-6-8 in conference play. The Earthquakes have a 45-0-0 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. Dallas won the last meeting 3-2.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Musa has 20 goals and three assists for Dallas. Logan Farrington has four goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Preston Judd has 16 goals and two assists for the Earthquakes. Jack Jasinski has scored one goal over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Dallas: 19-5-6, averaging 5.1 goals, 14.4 shots on goal and 14.1 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: 15-3-12, averaging 4.5 goals, 12.2 shots on goal and 15.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 4.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Dallas: Logan Farrington (injured).<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: Niko Tsakiris (injured), Benjamin Kikanovic (injured), Darius Johnson (injured), Nonso Adimabua (injured), DeJuan Jones (injured), Jonathan Gonzalez (injured).<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Data Skrive. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes (13-8-9, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. FC Dallas (14-7-9, third in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,9222,11444,7332,895,9223,4102,897,9221,88,1084,90,89,1083,127,564,2498],"class_list":["post-505161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-data-skrive","tag-fc-dallas","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-men","tag-mls-soccer","tag-natural-disasters","tag-professional","tag-recap","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-earthquakes","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505161","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=505161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}