SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES vs LA GALAXY
STANFORD STADIUM, Stanford, Calif.
June 27, 2015 (WEEK 17, MLS Game #173)
10:30 p.m. ET (MLS LIVE)
The California Clásico is featured in MLS Heineken Rivalry Week as the San Jose Earthquakes and LA Galaxy face off for the first time this season at Stanford Stadium on Saturday evening. The Quakes return home off an impressive victory, defeating Western Conference leaders Seattle Sounders FC 2-0 at CenturyLink Field last weekend. The Galaxy have been unstoppable in the past week, scoring five goals in back-to-back matches, last a 5-0 dismantling of the Portland Timbers on Wednesday evening at StubHub Center.
- The Quakes snapped a three-game winless run in league play as Matias Perez Garcia scored his first MLS goal and added an assist for a 2-0 win against Seattle Sounders FC on Saturday afternoon at CenturyLink Field.
- Baggio Husidic scored a goal and added two assists in the Galaxy’s 5-1 win against Philadelphia Union, the second time in his MLS career he’s been involved in three goals in a game. He had two goals and an assist in the 6-0 Galaxy win vs. Colorado, Sept. 5, 2014.
- The Galaxy have won just once in the last 10 regular season meetings in northern California, across three stadiums – a 1-0 victory last June 28 at Stanford Stadium. The Quakes finished undefeated against the Galaxy in league play at their former Buck Shaw Stadium home, with two wins and three draws in five matches there.
- The teams have met on five occasions in the MLS Cup Playoffs, last in the Western Conference Semifinals in 2012. The Quakes won the first leg 1-0 in Carson, but the Galaxy claimed the series with a 3-1 win at Buck Shaw Stadium, the club’s first win in northern California since June 2008.
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REFEREE: Jose Carlos Rivero. AR1 (bench): Jeff Hosking; AR2 (opposite): Mike Rottersman; 4th: Daniel Radford MLS Career: 47 games; FC/gm: 27.1; Y/gm: 3.8; R: 12; pens: 22
SUSPENDED: none
WARNINGS:
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: SJ: Sanna Nyassi … LA: Alan Gordon, Robbie Rogers
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: SJ: Fatai Alashe … LA: Baggio Husidic, Juninho, Mika Vayrynen, Omar Gonzalez
DISABLED LIST: LA: Brian Perk (season-ending injury)
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
HEAD-TO-HEAD
ALL-TIME (57 meetings): Earthquakes 18 wins (1 shootout), 75 goals…Galaxy 27 wins (4 shootout), 89 goals…Ties 12
AT SAN JOSE (30 meetings): Earthquakes 13 wins (1 shootout), 43 goals … Galaxy 10 wins (2 shootout), 39 goals … Ties 7
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