Joao Klauss scored his team-leading third purpose of the season and St. Louis Metropolis SC made MLS enlargement historical past in a 3-0 win over the visiting San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday night time.
Nicholas Gioacchini and Tomas Ostrak additionally scored for St. Louis (4-0-0, 12 factors), which turned the primary MLS enlargement workforce in league historical past to win its first 4 video games.
The one different enlargement workforce to win their first three matches was the 2009 Seattle Sounders FC.
Roman Burki wanted solely two saves to maintain his first clear sheet of the season in opposition to a San Jose workforce that had scored in every of its earlier three video games.
The Earthquakes (2-2-0, 6 factors) stay winless on the street this season after an evening that they completed significantly short-handed.
Attacker Jamiro Monteiro was suspended for a pink card he earned in final week’s win over Colorado. Defensive midfielder Carlos Gruezo and defender Rodriguez each departed with accidents.
Gioacchini wasn’t even the goal on the play that he completed off to make it 1-0 within the thirty fourth minute. Left-back John Nelson had come ahead as a part of an attacking transfer and was making an attempt to select Klauss’ late run by the center.
The move was a bit too far in entrance of the Brazilian striker, however Gioacchini outmuscled his defender to succeed in the unfastened ball and poke it previous JT Marcinkowski.
It was 2-0 in first-half stoppage time on one other play that did not work out fairly like meant. Klauss made a run ahead and tried to attach a move to Eduard Lowen that was deflected by a San Jose defender.
However Klauss ran onto it himself contained in the penalty space after which stabbed a end previous Marcinkowski forward of late-reacting defenders.
San Jose loved their finest interval of play early within the second half, and Cade Cowell had two probabilities denied by Burki.
After that allow off, Ostrak put the sport out of attain within the 68th minute when his shot from the sting of the penalty space took a deflection off a San Jose defender that left Marcinkowski little probability.