Cristian Espinoza scored the third and fourth goals of the season for the first support in about two years and defeated Portland Timbers 4-1, who visited San Jose earthquakes on Saturday night.
Espinoza also had a assistant, Cristian Arango scored his seventh goal, connected to MLS, and earthquakes (4-6-1, 13 points) helped two more because he caught three matches.
Ousseni Bouda added late insurance installments for a lower body injury than the attacker Josef Martinez for San Jose. Martinez is the second in the team with six goals. Dejuan Jones had the first two assists since he joined the earthquakes of Columbus crew.
Daniel made four stops for earthquakes.
Felipe Mora scored the fifth goal for Portland (5-3-3, 18 points) in the last seven matches.
San Jose won the leader Bruce Arena in his early years of MLS's All Time, but it could be the best they play this season.
Espinoza, since May 6, 2023 until 24 minutes until the first two goals in MLS had completed.
Arango was on the basis of Espinoza's opening goal in the 16th minute, and Jones played a ver from the midfield before spraying the ball to the right.
Jones dragged a low cross to the top of the penalty area, where Espinoza met for the first time in the lower left corner for a finish.
Eight minutes later, Espinoza took the transition to return and then dragged his efforts into the penalty area before curling the goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau (four savvi).
Arango finished ambush in the 27th minute and played a Ver-Go right down with Jones before the charging crepeau was a low finish.
Peloponnese scored a goal just before the first half of David Da Costa. But Portland rarely seemed threatening after the circuit, and was probably lucky to just accept it once again before the end of the night.
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