Quakes lose Clasico 31 before 18,000 in San Jose

The Earthquakes and their seasonbest 18,000 fans were no match for Chicharito on Saturday night.

Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, the Mexican national team star who at $6 million a year has the secondhighest contract in MLS, scored twice and the LA Galaxy beat San Jose 31 at PayPal Park.

It was the first game this season in which the Quakes were allowed a fullcapacity crowd, and the California Clasico rivalry drew a sellout. It was the most to see a sporting event in Santa Clara County since the start of the pandemic.

Hernandez opened the scoring in the 11th minute with a charging run through the center of the area and a closerange volley to finish Samuel Grandsir’s wellplaced cross.

Chicharito gave the Galaxy (730) a 20 lead in the 50th minute, tapping in Kevin Cabral’s cross for his MLSleading 10th goal of the season.

The Earthquakes’ Florian Jungwirth scored an own goal in the 70th minute to make it 30. The Galaxy’s Cameron

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Dunbar forced the action with a low hard cross through the 6yard box that diving San Jose goalkeeper James Marcinkowski slightly deflected, causing Jungwirth to misplay it.

Cade Cowell scored for the Earthquakes (371) in the 82nd minute. It was the 17yearold’s third goal of the season and San Jose’s second goal in its past seven matches (061).

Jimmy Medranda scored his first goal in three years midway through the second half, and host Seattle extended its unbeaten streak to 11 matches with a 2-2 draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps. The Sounders (7-0-4) moved within a game of the MLS record for the longest season-opening unbeaten streak shared by three teams . ... Daniel Salloi scored his seventh goal of the season in the 87th minute to lift host Sporting Kansas City past 10-man Los Angeles FC 2-1.

Subs give Italy a spot in quarters

With three exquisite touches of control, technique and finishing, Federico Chiesa ended more than an 11⁄2 hours of Italian frustration at Wembley Stadium in London.

Italy is off to the quarterfinals of the European Championship after a 21 victory over Austria that set national team marks with its 12th straight victory and 31st straight match unbeaten — the last a standard set in the 1930s. The defense set a world record of 19plus hours without allowing a goal and before conceding a late score.

Chiesa broke through in the 95th minute and and Matteo Pessina scored in the 105th before Austria’s Sasa Kalajdzic ended the Italian streak of goalless defense at 1,168 minutes with a 114thminute header. Denmark 4, Wales 0: Former Ajax Amsterdam player Kasper Dolberg scored two goals in his old stadium to help Denmark to the quarterfinals two weeks after Christian Eriksen collapsed on the field during the team’s opening match. Eriksen, also a former Ajax player, is recovering at home.