SJ Earthquakes are welcoming LA Galaxy for another important game after their 0-5 result against 5th-placed Colorado Rapids.
Any soccer match between LA Galaxy and San Jose Earthquakes is called the California Clasico and is considered one of the most historical and intense rivalries in American soccer. As the name suggest, both teams come from Californian cities. It's Northern California vs Southern California with its cultural differences, and this north vs south rivalry also applies to other sports.
SJ Earthquakes and LA Galaxy should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
SJ Earthquakes form and stats
SJ Earthquakes's struggle is real here with only 4 points collected from 6 Major League Soccer games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-4-2.
SJ Earthquakes are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-5 away versus Colorado Rapids. Preceding that match was the home game against Portland Timbers that was lost 1-6.
SJ Earthquakes were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Earthquakes are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 6 games. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Earthquakes have allowed the opposition to score 15 goals here.
LA Galaxy form and stats
2 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of LA Galaxy, who have the fewest scored goals (16) in Major League Soccer, playing as the away team in the Major League Soccer this season.
Galaxy have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 277 minutes ago. Lletget S. was the goal scorer.
Galaxy are travelling again after losing away to Real Salt Lake in their previous match (0-2). A 0-2 loss hosting Colorado Rapids before that.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far LA Galaxy have scored 8 goals in 6 league games away. In the opposite end, Galaxy have conceded 11 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
SJ Earthquakes and LA Galaxy have met before this season: Earthquakes - LA Galaxy 0-0. Earthquakes-LA Galaxy H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: SJ Earthquakes six wins, LA Galaxy two wins, two draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).SJ Earthquakes missing players
LA Galaxy missing players
| SJ Earthquakes | LA Galaxy | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 8 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 23 | 13 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| 44 | 21 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 11 | 19 |
| 87% | 88% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 92% |
| 87% | 88% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 83% |
| 67% | 62% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 67% | 62% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 60% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 73% | 88% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 20% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 25% |
| 20% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.9 | 2.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 209 | 117 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 11 | 60 | 141 |
| 73 | 37 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 25 | 56 |
| 32% | 35% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 32% | 29% |
- LA Galaxy has the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Major League Soccer
- LA Galaxy has the fewest scored goals (16) in Major League Soccer
- LA Galaxy has the most matches under the total-line (8) in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes has the fewest points (4) at home in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes has the fewest scored goals (7) at home in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes has the most conceded goals (38) in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes has the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes has the most conceded goals in the second half (23) in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes has the the worst goal difference (-21) in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes has the the worst goal difference (-8) at home in Major League Soccer
- SJ Earthquakes is in the worst form (0-3-3)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Seattle Sounders | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 21 |
| 2 | Portland Timbers | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 21 |
| 3 | Sporting KC | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 4 | Dallas | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 |
| 5 | Colorado Rapids | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 19 |
| 6 | Los Angeles FC | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 31 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 | Minnesota United | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 3 | 18 |
| 8 | Real Salt Lake | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | -2 | 17 |
| 9 | Houston Dynamo | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 21 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 20 | -3 | 16 |
| 10 | Vancouver Whitecaps | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 16 | -13 | 15 |
| 11 | LA Galaxy | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 15 |
| 12 | SJ Earthquakes | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 38 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 23 | -21 | 11 |