SAN JOSE — The San Jose Earthquakes suffered their third consecutive loss by two objectives and dropped out of the MLS’ closing playoff spot after a 3-1 loss to St. Louis Metropolis at PayPal Park on Saturday evening.
San Jose (9-14-8) has 35 factors and fell behind ninth-place Dallas (37 factors), which now holds the final playoff berth within the Western Convention with three video games left within the common season. The Quakes fell all the way in which to eleventh place, one level behind Houston.
St. Louis Metropolis (6-17-8) has received back-to-back video games total and is 6-0-0 in its three MLS seasons towards the Earthquakes.
Brendan McSorley had two objectives and an help — the 22-year-old’s first purpose contributions in MLS — and Roman Bürki had 9 saves, to guide St. Louis Metropolis’s assault.
McSorley, who made his first profession begin, put away a volley from the highest of the 6-yard field to open the scoring within the tenth minute. Chris Durkin performed an extended arcing ball-in from nicely exterior the realm to the again publish and João Klauss flicked a header to McSorley for the end.
Marcel Hartel, along with his proper foot, gently stopped a header from McSorley, turned and fired a left-foot shot from contained in the penalty arc to make it 2-0 within the nineteenth. He additionally performed a perfectly-placed ball-in to McSorley for a header that gave St. Louis a 3-1 lead within the forty fifth minute.
Cristian Arango transformed from the penalty spot within the 31th to account for the Earthquakes’ solely purpose.
McSorley and Klauss are the one gamers in membership historical past with no less than two objectives and one assists in a single recreation.
San Jose had 56% possession and 23 pictures, 11 on track.
McSorley, on the purpose line, blocked a shot by Arango from the middle of the realm within the 61st minute.
The Earthquakes are again in motion subsequent Saturday evening in San Diego towards San Diego FC (17-6-8), the first-place workforce within the Western Convention.
Initially Printed: September 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM PDT
