The Seattle Sounders are visiting the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday in their first of two meetings this season. Here is everything you need to know:
WHEN AND WHERE: Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. PT at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif.
WHERE TO WATCH: The match will be available to watch on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.
WHERE TO LISTEN: The match will air on 950 KJR AM and El Rey 1360AM.
2025 RECORDS AND STANDINGS: Sounders: 1-2-2 (4 points, 12th West), Earthquakes: 2-3-0 (6 points, 10thWest).
FORM GUIDE (all competitions, most recent first): Seattle: DLLWD, San Jose: LLLWW
PREVIOUS MEETING: The Sounders and Earthquakes played to a 2-2 draw at Lumen Field in Seattle on Sept. 18, 2024. San Jose’s Amahl Pellegrino opened the scoring in the 15th minute before two unanswered goals from Jordan Morris gave the Sounders a 2-1 lead. The Earthquakes’ Paul Marie equalized in the 89thminute.
LIFE ON THE ROAD: The Sounders on Saturday will play their first of three consecutive matches away from home — seven of their next nine fixtures are on the road — as they head to an inaugural visit at San Diego FC and then a trip to FC Dallas following San Jose.
FIRST CLEAN SHEET: Seattle earned its first clean sheet of the season last weekend, the 117th in goalkeeper Stefan Frei’s illustrious career. The Sounders held the Dynamo to just 0.3 Expected Goals.
MAJOR KEYS: San Jose’s Cristian Espinoza and Seattle’s Albert Rusnák are first and second in the league with 25 and 19 Key Passes, respectively.
NEW-LOOK ‘QUAKES: San Jose underwent a drastic facelift this past offseason. Most notably, American soccer coaching icon Bruce Arena is now at the helm, and he brought in a couple huge names. The Earthquakes acquired goalscoring machine Chicho Arango from Real Salt Lake as well as MLS goalscoring legend Josef MartÃnez.
HOT AND COLD: The ‘Quakes flew out of the gates, winning their first two matches by a combined score of 6-1. But they’ve since dropped three straight games, being outscored 7-2.
GENERATING CHANCES: San Jose is second in MLS with 11.69 Expected Goals through five matches, but it is underperforming its underlying numbers by nearly four full goals.
PLAYER TO WATCH: Chicho Arango, F
First with LAFC and Real Salt Lake and now with San Jose, Arango has been one of the league’s elite strikers since he entered MLS in 2021. Despite a short stint in Liga MX with Pachuca, Arango has 56 goals and 21 assists in 97 career MLS matches since 2021.
