Shea Salinas fires San Jose Earthquakes past Los Angeles Galaxy

Aug 29, 2015 at 4am UK

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Shea Salinas scores the only goal as the San Jose Earthquakes beat the Los Angeles Galaxy to extend their winning run to four matches.

Published: August 29 2015 | 05:59

Last updated: August 29 2015 | 11:04

The San Jose Earthquakes have extended their winning run to four matches by beating Western Conference leaders LA Galaxy 1-0 at the Avaya Stadium.

It was the hosts who looked the more threatening of the two sides from the first whistle, but they were denied an early goal when Donovan Ricketts managed to get a strong hand to Quincy Amarikwa's effort.

The lead belonged to San Jose in the 18th minute as Ricketts made another impressive stop to deny Amarikwa only for Shea Salinas to slot home the rebound.

An open game saw both sides attack throughout the first half, but San Jose continued to create the better opportunities and they came close to a second when Chris Wondolowski's deflected header struck the post.

The Galaxy's hopes of fighting back were dealt a blow two minutes after the break when Leonardo was shown a straight red card for pulling down Amarikwa as the forward looked to sprint clear of the visiting defence.

Despite being a man down, the Galaxy had a chance to get back on level terms when Giovani dos Santos beat his marker to the ball, but he foolishly shot straight at David Bingham with Robbie Keane in space in the box.

San Jose handled the spells of pressure well for most of the second half, and they almost finished off the night with another goal when Shaun Francis fired a powerful low effort just past the post.

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Eastern Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Inter Miami Inter Miami	34	22	8	4	79	49	30	74
2	Columbus Crew	34	19	9	6	72	40	32	66
3	FC Cincinnati Cincinnati	34	18	5	11	58	48	10	59
4	Orlando City	34	15	7	12	59	50	9	52
5	Charlotte FC Charlotte FC	34	14	9	11	46	37	9	51
6	New York City FC NY City	34	14	8	12	54	49	5	50
7	New York Red Bulls NY Red Bulls	34	11	14	9	55	50	5	47
8	CF Montreal Montreal	34	11	10	13	48	64	-16	43
9	Atlanta United Atlanta	34	10	10	14	46	49	-3	40
10	DC United	34	10	10	14	52	70	-18	40
11	Philadelphia Union Philadelphia	34	9	10	15	62	55	7	37
12	Toronto	34	11	4	19	40	61	-21	37
13	Nashville SC Nashville	34	9	9	16	38	54	-16	36
14	New England Revolution New England	34	9	4	21	37	74	-37	31
15	Chicago Fire	34	7	9	18	40	62	-22	30

Western Conference

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Los Angeles FC Los Angeles	34	19	7	8	63	43	20	64
2	Los Angeles Galaxy LA Galaxy	34	19	7	8	69	50	19	64
3	Real Salt Lake Salt Lake	34	16	11	7	65	48	17	59
4	Seattle Sounders Seattle	34	16	9	9	51	35	16	57
5	Houston Dynamo Houston	34	15	9	10	47	39	8	54
6	Minnesota United Minnesota Utd	34	15	7	12	58	49	9	52
7	Colorado Rapids Colorado	34	15	5	14	61	60	1	50
8	Portland Timbers Portland	34	12	11	11	65	56	9	47
9	Vancouver Whitecaps Vancouver	34	13	8	13	52	49	3	47
10	Austin FC Austin	34	11	9	14	39	48	-9	42
11	Dallas	34	11	8	15	54	56	-2	41
12	St Louis City	34	8	13	13	50	63	-13	37
13	Sporting Kansas City Kansas	34	8	7	19	51	66	-15	31
14	San Jose Earthquakes Earthquakes	34	6	3	25	41	78	-37	21