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St. Louis City SC versus San Jose Quakes Preview

 

First I wanted to share my big news, that I will be covering the St. Louis City SC versus San Jose game as a credentialed media member! I am beyond excited and grateful for the opportunity. I will be posting a few blogs as it relates to the game: I will be doing a full game recap on the blog, I will be live tweeting the game, I will hopefully get some pictures to post and upload, and then I will do a blog about my experience covering the game. 

If you are going to be at the game or in midtown I will be handing out some Fumbling Punter shirts at the Block Party on the Lou Fusz Plaza before the game. Let's get into the matchup:

St. Louis City SC is looking to make a bit of history at CITY PARK tomorrow as they look to become the first MLS expansion side to win their first four MLS matches. To do so they are going to have to get through a young and inspired San Jose Quakes side. 

The Quakes have several USMNT eligible players including Striker Jeremy Ebobisse, midfielder Jackson Yueill, and forward Cade Cowell. Cowell is 19 and the most likely to have a future with the national team, but all three are solid players and between Nations League and the Gold Cup we are likely to see up to all three of them wear the Stars and Stripes this summer. Argentinian Cristian Espinoza has three goal contributions through three games for the San Jose side. He will be the catalyst for the San Jose attack. The Quakes also have some really exciting U17's in their system with young Goal Keeper phenom Emmanuel Ochoa and Medina Cruz, both of whom competed for the Youth National team in the past year.

For St. Louis City SC it's going to be about continuing the strong defending of Tim Parker and Kyle Hiebert in front of Roman Burki. The attacking play has been great with Lowen, Klauss, Giocchini, Vassilev, and Stroud. The big story of this young team has been Pattonville High School midfielder Miguel Perez. I wrote previously about how important homegrown talent would be to the success of the club and the young talented midfielder is putting that on full display. 

Thanks for reading and be looking for a lot of content coming out of this weekend!




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