Quakes rally to beat Galaxy
Shea Salinas scored off the crossbar in stoppage time to give the Earthquakes a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday night in the California Clasico.
Salinas’ first goal of the year gave San Jose the victory before 50,617 fans at Stanford Stadium.
San Jose (6-6-6) was playing its first MLS game under Chris Leitch, the former player who was hired after the team fired head coach Dom Kinnear and assistant coach John Spencer last Sunday.
Chris Wondolowski tied it in the 75th minute when he outran the Galaxy defense to Earthquakes goalkeeper David Bingham’s long kick. It was Wondolowski’s seventh goal of the season.
Defender Jelle Van Damme scored his first goal in 46 career MLS starts with a hard volley
off his left foot in the 11th minute for Los Angeles (6-6-5), capitalizing on Jose Villarreal’s cross off a free kick from the left side. Van Damme was given a red card after Salinas’ winning goal.
U.S. 2, Ghana 1: Dom Dwyer volleyed in the go-ahead goal in the 19th minute of his international debut, ran to the corner flag and did a double back flip.
The goal made Dwyer and his wife, national women’s team forward Sydney Leroux, the first husband-and-wife couple to score for the U.S., which beat Ghana 2-1 in East Hartford, Conn., in an exhibition ahead of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
U.S. goalkeeper Brad Guzan saved Asamoah Gyan’s penalty kick in first-half stoppage time, and Kellyn Acosta added his first international goal in the 52nd minute on a low free kick. Gyan curled a free kick just under the crossbar in the 60th.
The final score matched that of Ghana’s victories eliminating the U.S. from the 2006 and 2010 World Cups as well as the U.S. win over Ghana in the 2014 tournament.
“I got fired in 2006. It took me 11 years to get this job back,” U.S. coach Bruce Arena, who coached the national team from 1998 to 2006, said with a laugh.
The U.S. improved to 4-0-4 since Arena replaced Jurgen Klinsmann in his old job in November.