Sixty minutes into the match and the odds were stacked against them. Facing one of the Eastern Conference’s top teams thus far in 2016 in a stadium they had claimed every point up for grabs to date (3-0-0), the Quakes were down a goal, and more importantly, down a man.
Midfielder Anibal Godoy had just been shown his second yellow card of the match and San Jose seemed up against it. Surely the hill would be too steep to climb, especially without the team’s leader in the center of the pitch.
The red card forced head coach Dominic Kinnear to change from a two-forward formation to one forward, which left an entire third of the pitch for Chris Wondolowski to cover by himself.