San Jose Earthquakes vs Seattle Sounders

The San Jose Earthquakes will be hoping to secure their spot inside the automatic playoff spots when they host the Seattle Sounders on Thursday, July 13.

On the other hand, Seattle climbed to second place in the Western Conference standings thanks to two straight victories. The San Jose Earthquakes vs Seattle Sounders game takes place at 5:30 a.m. ET.

Preview of the San Jose Earthquakes vs Seattle Sounders match at the stage in which the two teams are

San Jose Earthquakes

Having only qualified for the playoffs once in the past five seasons, the Earthquakes are hoping their fortunes will improve under Luchi Gonzalez, after he took over in January of this year.

The 42-year-old, who previously managed FC Dallas before joining the USA International as an assistant, has made a huge impact since moving to San Jose, with seven wins in 22 league games enough to fill his team’s bottom spot. for the playoffs.

Because of this, fans of the club will dream of a stellar season by par-standards in recent years, as it has been more than a decade since the team last reached the first round of the play-offs.

Despite a respectable two ties against two Los Angeles teams in recent games, splitting the tally alone extended the Earthquakes’ losing streak to five games, piling pressure on a comeback win at PayPal Park on Thursday.

Seattle Sounders

It certainly won’t be an easy task against Seattle, who have eliminated the Houston Dynamo and Vancouver Whitecaps in their last two games to cement their position in the playoffs.

In fact, only St. Louis City has earned more points than them in the Western Conference, with Brian Schmitzer’s team seven points clear of the top seven.

Schmetzer, who spent 13 years coaching Seattle in two separate stints, led his players to MLS Cup titles in 2016 and 2019, as well as finishing the next two seasons as runners-up on both occasions.

Because of this, his position at the club would probably be his for as long as he wanted to keep it, assuming nothing went dramatically wrong, but he wouldn’t let his players push their limits to complete a treble. of MLS Cup wins with the club.

News from teams

The Earthquakes would be forced to enter the field without their starting goaltender Daniel after he was sent off against Los Angeles FC, with JT Marcinkowski set to replace him.

Gameiro Montero, Michael Paldecimo and Nathan Cardoso will all be without injuries, while Gonzalez won’t make many other changes after picking up a solid point away against the reigning MLS champions.

But Seattle will travel without Colin Rowe, Stephen Frey, Ethan Dopplery, Xavier Arriaga and Sota Kitahara due to injury.

Liu Zhu will almost certainly start on the left wing, after he scored twice in a 3-2 win over Vancouver.

Possible lineups San Jose Earthquakes vs Seattle Sounders

Possible starting lineup for the San Jose Earthquakes:
Marcinkovsky. Rodrigues, Jonathan, Bison; Akabo, Grosso, Skahan, Trauko, Mary; Spinoza, Ebobisi

Possible starting lineup for the Seattle Sounders:
Cleveland. Roldan, Gomez, Ragen, Tolo; Vargas, Paolo; Ludero, Rusnak, Cho; ruideas

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