Hoesen saves San Jose from shutout by K.C.

Gerso Fernandes had two goals and two assists and Sporting Kansas City moved into first place in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference with a 5-1 victory over the host Earthquakes on Saturday night.

Felipe Gutierrez opened the scoring in the 18th minute for Sporting KC (15-7-6). Fernandes doubled the lead five minutes later with a run behind the defense and a chip shot to beat San Jose goalkeeper Andrew Tarbell.

Ike Opara made it 3-0 with a putback off Roger Espinoza’s saved attempt in the 42nd minute.

Danny Hoesen scored for the Quakes (4-16-8) in the 80th minute with a long-range blast.

Fernandes capped the scoring with his second goal in the 86th minute.

 In other MLS games, Miguel Almiron scored twice in the first 18 minutes and assisted on another goal to help the visiting Atlanta United beat the Colorado Rapids 3-0. United moved two points ahead of the New York Red Bulls in the Supporters’ Shield race . ... Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his 500th worldwide goal in the visiting Los Angeles Galaxy’s 5-3 loss to Toronto FC . ... Zack Steffen saved Tesho Akindele’s chip shot in the 92nd minute and the Columbus Crew played to a scoreless draw with host FC Dallas . ... Alejandro Silva

scored twice off assists from Ignacio Piatti and the visiting Montreal Impact beat the Philadelphia Union 4-1 . ... Mauro Manotas had two goals and an assistas the Houston Dynamo beat the Portland Timbers 4-1 to snap a 10-game winless streak . ... Miguel Ibarra tied it for Minnesota in the 84th minute in United’s 1-1 draw with host Real Salt Lake . ... Raul Ruidiaz scored twice and the visiting Seattle Sounders ran their club-record winning streak to nine games, beating the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1. ... Brandon Bye tied it in the 82nd minute as the New England Revolution tied host Los Angeles FC 1-1.

NWSL: Tobin Heath and Lindsey Horan scored and the host Portland Thorns advanced to the National Women’s Soccer League championship game with a 2-1 semifinal victory over the Seattle Reign.

The defending NWSL champion Thorns (13-6-6) will play the winner of the other semifinal

between the Chicago Red Stars and the North Carolina Courage for the title next Saturday at Portland’s Providence Park. The semifinal between the Courage (17-1-6) and Red Stars (9-5-10) was originally set for Sunday in Cary, N.C., but the game was moved to Tuesday night in Portland because of Hurricane Florence. Premier League: For the first time since the English Premier League’s inception 26 years ago, two teams — Chelsea and Liverpool — have not lost or tied a match after five matches. Eden Hazard’s hat trick powered Chelsea to a 4-1 victory over Cardiff on Saturday shortly after Roberto Firmino helped Liverpool overcome Tottenham 2-1. Chelsea hosts Liverpool in a showdown at Stamford Bridge in two weeks. And the defending champions are in the slipstream. Still unbeaten, Manchester City beat Fulham 3-0 to remain two points behind the front-runners.