July 8, 2025; St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota United Forward Bongokuhale Hlongven (21) passed the first overtime against Chicago Fire in Elianz Field. Compulsory Credit: Matte Blaweight-Imgon Picture To face Minnesota United, San Jose Earthquake St. Paul, two teams coming out of the Midweek US Open Cup matches on Saturday are coming out.
Both teams had to play 120 minutes in their Tuesday night matches. San Jose (7-7-7, 28 points), Benji Kikanovic despite taking a 2–1 lead in the 99th minute, Austin FC’s Mirto Uzuni achieved a target in 115th on a punishment kick and then lost in penalty shootouts, 4–2.
Minnesota United (10–4–7, 37 points), meanwhile, found a pair target by Calvin Yobo in extra time to knock the Chicago Fire 3–1.
Now the teams will turn around and refer on the stretch drive of MLS Play. In the third place in the Western Conference, Loans ran two points from San Diego FC in the first place, while San Jose, which is 1-0-3 in its last four matches, is the seventh.
Despite the disappointing home loss to Austin, the earthquake defender Jamar Rickets said that his team, which was finally finished with the last 21 points at the Western Conference last season, is confident that it is moving forward.
“We are definitely high aspirations,” Rickets said. “In our head, we are playing playoff no matter what.”
San Jose would probably be without star midfielder Christian aspinoza, who required 10 stitches to close a gush on his knee lately suffering in a regulation stops on a dishonesty by defender Mikel Dsler. The descell picked up a yellow card on the play.
San Jose coach Bruce Arena said, “That foul on (aspinoza) is a straight red card.” “Officers were comic.”
Espinoza has been an important reason that Quake rank finished third in 41 -goals. He ranks second in the league for assistance with 11 to go with four goals.
Minnesota United Coach Eric Ramsay said that he is not worried about tired of his team in Saturday’s competition after a long and emotional victory of Tuesday.
“Momentum helps,” Ramsay said. “Energy helps. Winning the game helps. It is an easy game on Saturday that is winning the game, as it is played sloppy in 120 minutes and then loses. So I think it is definitely better than bad there.”
Lones won 1-0 first meeting between the two teams in San Jose, on March 8, in the 32nd minute, an Earthquake with an earthquake improved in all the competitions in the previous 13 meetings in the previous 13 meetings.
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