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STANFORD, Calif. -- There's something about cool, summer nights at Stanford Stadium. For six years and counting, when the San Jose Earthquakes and the Los Angeles Galaxy meet in front of over 50,000 thousand fans, epochal matches come to life. It's the "neutral"
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PHOTO: Lyndsay Radnedge/LRadiCal Photography With the recent signing of center back Guram Kashia, captain of the Georgian national team and from Vitesse of the Dutch Eredivisie, and with the ongoing back line carousel of the San Jose Earthquakes this not-so-great season, fans can be forgiven for yearning for the
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PHOTO: Lyndsay Radnedge/LRadiCal Photography Minutes, hours, days and months have passed by and the San Jose Earthquakes are demonstrating that they haven't hit rock bottom. But it might very well be that for structural reasons they never will. They can never become Nottingham Forest, Atlante FC, or
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PHOTO: ISI Photos Following a disheartening California Clasico loss to the Zlatan-less LA Galaxy, 1-0, on Friday night courtesy of an out-of-the-box strike from Romain Alessandrini and a stellar save amidst a less-than-stellar season from deposed goalkeeper David Bingham, last Sunday morning mlssoccer.com’s Bobby Warshaw (@bwarshaw14) and Matt
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PHOTO: ISI Photos By Dan Mazin The San Jose Earthquakes have pulled 9 points from 12 matches, which by any metric, is a tire fire in a dumpster fire covered in fresh elephant manure. Were this any other league and sacking the manager would unquestionably be on the table. The
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Sports analytics don't tell the whole story, particularly in soccer, a game that is notoriously hard to quantify, with 11 players on each team, low sample size of successes (goals), and about a million confounding variables. I do, however, like to dive into the data, particularly advanced metrics
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PHOTO: San Jose Earthquakes The Earthquakes entered the friendly confines of Minnesota and left with their second win—against Minnesota United, and for the year. It was a strange match, one in which San Jose looked dominant for long stretches but only really scored off of two penalty kicks and
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PHOTO: ISI Photos There’s a good rule about playing Portland at your home stadium: if you don’t want to be victimized by a late Diego Valeri free kick, don’t put yourself in a position where you’re tied in the 88th minute as the reigning MLS MVP
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The Expected Goals (xG) metric is the all the rage in soccer analytics right now. To some, xG is the Swiss army knife of metrics: it can be used for everything from predicting game outcomes, to setting fantasy lineups, to being the cure for any ailment a team has. While
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PHOTO: San Jose Earthquakes When the news broke out about Jon Busch's impending retirement, I was immediately flooded with thoughts, memories, and nostalgia of one of the San Jose Earthquakes greatest players ever. I know that's quite a bold statement, to have a goalkeeper who oversaw
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It's my favorite time of year: the MLS Players Union salary guide release day! I thought I would put down a couple thoughts about what we learned about the San Jose Earthquakes based on this release: * I had previously estimated that the Quakes had genuine under-cap room to
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There are coaches in soccer who only practice transition: switching quickly from the attack to putting together a defense, or from winning the ball to pressing the attack. It seems clear, seven games in, that San Jose is not one of those teams. For the second straight game, San Jose