San Jose Earthquakes vs. Houston Dynamo Match Analysis and Prediction

Two sides struggling at the bottom half of the Major League Soccer will square off this Monday when San Jose Earthquakes hosts Houston Dynamo at PayPal Park. Kickoffs schedules for July 18 at 04:30 EAT.

The hosts occupy the 12th position in the Western Conference with 22 points, five points below the final series playoffs. The Earthquakes struggles began when they failed to win any of their opening seven fixtures in the MLS this campaign. In their last five matches, they have recorded two wins, two draws and a loss.

San Jose Earthquakes prepare for this fixture off the back of 2-3 MLS success to beat Los Angeles Galaxy in their previous game. In that match, San Jose Earthquakes had 47% possession, 11 shots with four of them on target and goals scored by Cristian Espinoza (13′), Jeremy Ebobisse (14′) and Marcos López (40′). Los Angeles Galaxy got 25 shots with 10 on target and goals by Dejan Joveljić (48′, 88′).

Meanwhile, Houston head into this encounter off the back of a four-match winless streak that included three defeats. The cold streak has saw the club sit right above Monday’s opponents by goals difference since they have the same number of points. Coming into this game, the visitors picked up just one loss against four loses and a draw.

Houston Dynamo will want to make amends here following 3-1 defeat at the hands of Austin FC in their most recent fixture. In that match, Houston Dynamo managed 50% possession, eight shots with three of them on target and goals scored by Adalberto Carrasquilla (11′). Austin FC got 16 shots with six of them on target and goals by Diego Fagúndez (15′), Maxi Urruti (57′) and Alex Ring (70′).

San Jose Earthquakes vs. Houston Dynamo head to head

Houston Dynamo boasts the upper hand having won 17 times out of the 30 head to head encounters since 2008. San Jose Earthquakes won nine times while four matches ended in draws.                            

• Houston 4-3 San Jose 10/04/22                 
• San Jose 1-1 Houston 25/07/21                 
• Houston 2-1 San Jose 17/04/21                 
• San Jose 2-0 Houston 27/06/19                 
• Houston 2-1 San Jose 13/04/19

Home

• LA Galaxy 2-3 San Jose
• Toronto 2-2 San Jose
• San Jose 2-1 Chicago
• Salt Lake 2-0 San Jose
• Nashville 0-0 San Jose

Away

• Austin3-1Houston
• Houston 2-2 Dallas
• Houston 1-2 Charlotte
• Portland 2-1 Houston
• Houston 2-0 Chicago

San Jose Earthquakes team news

Coach Alex Covelo will be without the services of George Asomani who has been ruled out through injury.

 Houston Dynamo team news

Paulo Nagamura will take to the pitch with a fully fit squad.

Prediction and odds

These two teams are in a similar form at the moments, we are backing Houston Dynamo to take a take a slight edge over San Jose Earthquakes as they are playing at home.

• Houston Dynamo Win
• Draw
• Both teams to score