SAN JOSE — Josef Martinez got here by simply within the nick of time.
The San Jose Earthquakes striker saved the house crew from an unsightly outcome on Wednesday evening at PayPal Park, avoiding a loss to bottom-of-the-table FC Dallas with a clutch 87th-minute header that erased a one aim deficit and secured a 2-2 tie for San Jose.
The Quakes had their fingers full with Dallas ahead Petar Musa, who netted targets late within the first half and within the eighty fifth minute to energy the guests’ offensive assault.
The Earthquakes didn’t go away the sport unscathed on the harm entrance both. Defender Vitor Costa, after selecting up a yellow card throughout a collision within the thirtieth minute, left the sphere on a stretcher within the thirty fourth and was changed by substitute Dave Romney.
The Quakes went up 1-0 within the twenty first after Ian Harkes completed a sequence the place the ball touched six Quakes gamers in or across the 18-yard field. Martinez, who arrange Harkes in a gap simply outdoors the field, was credited with the help after Harkes bent the ball into the top-right nook of the web.
Musa scored an equalizer for FC Dallas within the third minute of first-half stoppage time, ending the play after Patrickson Delgado hit the crossbar after making an attempt to chip the ball previous Quakes goalkeeper Daniel with a wide-open internet in entrance of him.
Daniel made an important save within the sixty fourth minute, utilizing his physique to cease a point-blank try from Shaq Moore contained in the field.
San Jose almost took the lead within the 73rd minute on an personal aim when newly minted MLS All-Star Cristian Espinoza served a ball in from the proper wing and Dallas defender Lalas Abubakar volleyed it off the crossbar along with his foot.
An introduced crowd of 15,304 followers attended the midweek match, although many sections of empty seats have been seen.
The Quakes are actually ninth within the MLS Western Convention standings, occupying the ultimate play-in spot within the West playoff subject.
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