San Jose Earthquakes 2-0 Chicago Fire: Poor defence and listless midfield puts out the Fire – MLS News
Major League Soccer franchise http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/San-Jose-Earthquakes-c40434 after a lacklustre performance. The team failed to react despite going down as early as the 10th minute and eventually slumped meekly to a 2-0 defeat.
Left-back http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dominic-Oduro-c11508 had another chance in the first minute of the first-half stoppage time but it ended up in San Jose goalkeeper Jon Busch’s
gloves.
“I thought our group moving forward wasn’t necessarily as fluid as it has been,” Gargan told the media. “I think that we’ve been better and I didn’t think that our movement was as good as it has been.”
The Quakes were also struggling in the first half and despite leading the score line 1-0, they struggled for possession against the visitors. However, the strong defence paid dividends and the first half ended in their favour.
The Quakes changed their style of play in the second period and stuck to short passes and bossed the centre of the park. On the other hand, the Fire were kept losing their grip on the game. Despite coming to Buck Shaw Stadium on the back of two consecutive
wins and in some confidence, the Illinois-based team looked completely out of sorts.
“We were a little disjointed in our attack from the back to the front,” Gargan said. “That kind of slowed us down a bit moving forward. It’s unfortunate; it’s disappointing.”
The Fire’s poor defence leaked another goal to the Quakes in the 69th minute. The SJ skipper, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Khari-Stephenson-c20911. The 2-0 lead was simply insurmountable and a Fire comeback was
out of question.
The latest loss has put the Fire way behind in the race for the playoffs. They are now seven points behind http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/DC-United-c38901, who are in the 10th place and occupy the last place for the postseason, with just seven games remaining.
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