Cristian Espinoza scored his twelfth purpose of the season and Daniel made seven saves to steer the San Jose Earthquakes to a 1-0 win over the host Vancouver Whitecaps on Sunday.
It was solely the second highway victory (2-6-4) of the season for the Earthquakes, and it got here at one of many more durable away venues in MLS. The Whitecaps drop to 7-3-4 at dwelling.
The end result was all of the extra unlikely provided that Vancouver (8-8-7, 31 factors) dominated the motion. The Whitecaps held a possession of 58.3 and outshot San Jose by a 19-3 margin, together with an 8-1 edge in pictures on course.
Nonetheless, the Earthquakes (9-7-8, 35 factors) made their lone goal depend, as Espinoza prolonged his scoring streak to 4 matches.
Within the forty third minute, San Jose took benefit of the Whitecaps’ stress by launching a counterattack. Jeremy Ebobisse crossed to Espinoza for the decisive strike earlier than Vancouver’s defenders had been prepared.
Daniel did the remainder, recording his fourth clear sheet of the season. Daniel held sturdy towards the Whitecaps’ fixed stress, together with saves on Sergio Cordova and Brian White within the 14th minute. The second of these stops noticed Daniel deny White’s close-range header off a well-placed cross from Pedro Vite.
The Earthquakes did not have a single shot within the second half, focusing totally on defending and limiting Vancouver to 2 pictures on purpose through the last 45 minutes.
Daniel once more got here up massive when the Whitecaps did problem, together with one other spectacular save within the sixtieth minute off a difficult redirected shot from Cordova.
San Jose additionally acquired some assist from the goalpost within the 81st minute. Sam Adekugbe’s free kick curved across the wall towards the far aspect of the online however hit the put up on the Whitecaps’ closest probability of the match.
Adekugbe and Richie Laryea had been enjoying their first matches with Vancouver since being acquired through the switch window. Laryea had two pictures within the first 45 minutes earlier than being substituted for Adekugbe at halftime.
—Subject Degree Media
