The expansion San Jose Earthquakes have gone on a 9 game unbeaten streak. This streak has the currently sitting in 9th place overall in the league. For most of the season the expansion club has been on the bottom of the league, a position now shared by 4 teams. The Earthquakes are only 2 points ahead of these bottom 4, but that still has them withing striking distance of the playoffs.
A lot of the recent success of the San Jose Earthquakes must be attributed to newcomer Darren Huckerby. Huckerby joined the team and played his first game on July 19th. Since then the Earthquakes have gone 4-0-3 in league play. In Huckerby’s 7 games he’s tallied 4 goal and 4 assists which has him as the leading scorer on the team.
So I ask: Who is going to stop Huckerby and the Earthquakes. It isn’t 1998 anymore and the expansion team is not supposed to win anything. I know they are a long way from winning anything, or even being in position to win anything, but they are hot right now.
The next 2 games will see the Earthquakes taking on tops in the West – the Houston Dynamo. The Dynamo have also been pretty hot recently so these should be a good couple of game that I’m looking forward to.
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It’s good to see Huckerby doing well in the US, I felt that he would mainly due to his pace and ability to run with the ball. It’s interesting that he has had such a huge impact on the team that he has joined too.