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Hindustan Times
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Vastly improved San Jose set to host Houston
The San Jose Earthquakes can match their point total for the entire 2024 season with a win Saturday night over the visiting Houston Dynamo. San Jose is eighth in the Western Conference and 4-0-2 in its last six matches, including a 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers on Tuesday night in the Round of 16 in the U.S. Open Cup. It's been quite a turnaround for San Jose under first-year head coach Bruce Arena. The Earthquakes finished a dreadful 6-25-3 last season and with a minus-37 goal differential. San Jose, which is plus-6 in goal differential this season, can equal that point total well before the halfway point of the 2025 season with a win Saturday. "We've made some mistakes during the regular season, but correctable mistakes by some individuals that we can correct," Arena, a four-time MLS Coach of the Year and former U.S. National Team head coach, said. "We're getting better. I think hopefully, as we get into the second half of the season, we're a better team defensively. If we can continue to be a team that can score some goals, we're going to win some games." Goalie Earl Edwards Jr. had his second straight shutout against Portland and enters the contest with a 136-minute shutout streak. Houston is 10th in the Western Conference and comes in off a 3-1 loss at Austin FC on Wednesday in the U.S. Open Cup. However, the Dynamo have won their last two MLS matches by shutouts, including a 2-0 Texas Derby victory at FC Dallas last Saturday as Jonathan Bond made three saves for his sixth clean sheet of the season. The win at FC Dallas was the team's first on the road this season. "Our first three points on the road, and that's going to be important this year to grab a few of those, particularly with our start," Houston coach Ben Olsen said. The Dynamo began the season 0-4-2 before scoring a 1-0 win over Los Angeles Football Club on April 5. Houston won both meetings with the Earthquakes last season, including a 1-0 victory at San Jose on July 17. Field Level Media
Reuters
16-04-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
Orlando City SC give coach Oscar Pareja new 3-year deal
April 16 - The marriage between Orlando City SC and Oscar Pareja has been a good one and the pairing will be together a little longer. On Wednesday, Orlando City announced it had agreed on a three-year extension with Pareja through 2028. Pareja joined Orlando City prior to the 2020 season. In the club's first five seasons in MLS it failed to have a winning record. Pareja turned that around quickly. Orlando City went 11-8-4 in his first season as head coach and won the MLS Is Back Tournament. Pareja has led the Lions to five consecutive playoffs and his overall record with the team is 88-58-56. Under Pareja, Orlando City won the U.S. Open Cup in 2022 and made the MLS Eastern Conference finals last season. Pareja also has coached Colorado Rapids and FC Dallas, winning MLS Coach of the Year with the latter in 2016, and he owns the fifth-most wins in MLS history with 176. Orlando City is 3-2-3 thus far in 2025.
