SAN JOSE – The Matias Almeyda era is off to a rocky start.
Minnesota United scored three second-half goals to send San Jose to a 3-0 defeat at a half-full Avaya Stadium on Saturday night.
The Earthquakes (0-2-0) lost its season opener last week 2-1 to Montreal, but the team was still optimistic because of how it controlled possession in the first game under Almeyda, the 2018 CONCACAF coach of the year. That was not the case Saturday against the Loons.
Even in San Jose’s historically bad four-win season last year, it swept its two games against Minnesota.