SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cristian Espinoza had a goal and an assist on Saturday night and the San Jose Earthquakes earned their first points of the season with a 3-0 win over the Portland Timbers.
The Timbers (0-4-1) lost their fourth in a row.
“I actually told the guys that if we don’t work we are going to lose this match like this,” Timbers coach Giovanni Savarese said. “We have to work. We have to be better. We have to make sure that our performance is better…we have to step it up because this is not good enough.”
The game featured the Major League Soccer debut of Timbers’ Foster Langsdorf, a Mountain View High grad. He became the third homegrown Timbers player to appear in a regular-season match. He played the final 24 minutes and did not take a shot.
Shea Salinas opened the scoring in the 15th minute, scoring from a run through the center of the 6-yard box to finish Espinoza’s cross.