Cincinnati vs San Jose
MLS
West End Stadium
Cincinnati who are pushing for the playoffs took on the Earthquakes who are bottom of the Western Conference. Hence, there was only one clear favourite to seal the win.
However, things were more one-sided than anyone could have expected. Á Barreal, L Acosta, and Y Kubo all got on the scoresheet. While Souza da Silva got himself a hat trick.
Cincinnati vs San Jose: Match report
Full time score: Cincinnati 6-0 San Jose
CIN: Roman Celentano, Álvaro Barreal (Ronald Matarrita 78’), Matt Miazga (Ian Murphy 73’), Geoff Cameron, Nick Hagglund, Alvas Powell, Obinna Nwobodo, Junior Moreno (Dominique Badji 83’), Luciano Acosta (C) (Yuya Kubo 73’), Brenner, Brandon Vazquez (Sergio Santos 78’)
Substitutes not used: Alec Kann, John Nelson, Allan Cruz, Ray Gaddis
Head Coach: Pat Noonan
SJ: JT Marcinkowski, Nathan, Tanner Beason, Tommy Thompson (Paul Marie 82’), Rodrigues, Eric Rernedi, Jackson Yueill (C) (Nico Tsakiris 73’), Jamiro Monteiro (Jack Skahan 82’), Cristian Espinoza (Shea Salinas 72’), Jeremy Ebobisse (Benji Kikanovic 73’), Cade Cowell
Substitutes not used: Matt Bersano, Jan Gregus, Oskar Agren, Judson
Interim Head Coach: Alex Covelo
STATS SUMMARY: CIN/SJ
Shots: 20 / 9
Shots on Goal: 10 / 5
Saves: 5 / 4
Corner Kicks: 4 / 3
Fouls: 14 / 11
Offside: 1 / 0
Possession: 47.8 / 52.2
MISCONDUCT SUMMARY
SJ – Jamiro Monteiro (Yellow Card: Foul) 8’
SJ – Nathan (Yellow Card: Foul) 46’
CIN – Geoff Cameron (Yellow Card: Foul) 57’
CIN – Brenner (Yellow Card: Excessive Celebration) 90’
OFFICIALS
Referee: Ismir Pekmic
Ast. Referees: Ian McKay, Brooke Mayo
Fourth Official: Joshua Encarnacion
VAR: Joe Dickerson
AVAR: Craig Lowry
Managers’ reaction
FC Cincinnati Head Coach Pat Noonan: “A really strong performance from the group. I thought in the first 15 to 20 minutes, we came out strong and then kind of had a little bit of a drop-off where we were forcing the issue a little bit and the game got opened up. Credit to Roman (Celentano) at that time. We needed to make some saves when they were putting us under some pressure. The (first) goal came at an opportune time, and the second half was outstanding. The execution in a lot of different ways that allowed us to score six goals was impressive. I think that you saw the confidence when we were scoring goals and how we were able to move the ball in ways that we’ve been trying to do for quite some time now. Really proud of the group.”
San Jose Earthquakes Interim Head Coach Alex Covelo: “The mentality is very simple: the team will keep fighting. Mathematically and not knowing other results, we kept fighting and played a great first half against a good team with great atmosphere and spectacular stadium. I think we played a good first half creating opportunities at the end. Right now, we need to recover and understand to fight each game the way we did in the first half and in recent matches to win more games from here until the end of the season. If we start considering whether we’re in playoff contention or not, it will take a toll on us and lead us to results like tonight in the second half.”
