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By Pearl Allison Lo

Four minutes of stoppage were golden for FC Dallas as Blas Perez scored in the 92nd minute to take down San Jose Saturday 1-0 in the teams’ season opener.

It was Perez’s 32nd career goal in what was looking to be a draw. Goalie David Bingham came forward to block Victor Ulloa’s kick from just past midfield. However, Bingham deflected the ball directly to Moises Hernandez. Hernandez then kicked the ball toward the goal and Perez redirected Hernandez’s shot into the net with a header.

Perez led all with three shots on goal.

Regarding the goal, Bingham replied, “It’s a learning curve. It’s a little bit of communication, probably more on my part. He didn’t hear me coming. He didn’t know there was no one around. So, he went to clear it and I was coming out and we had a little mix up and then the guy duffs a shot wide and Perez was there to put it back in.”

San Jose now has a 16-game regular season winless streak, their successful preseason in the rearview mirror for now. The game would have been a rare draw for them as well.

In the 20th minute, FC Dallas had a free kick. Mauro Diaz set up Perez on the left but Bingham cut the shot off.

Two minutes later, Fabian Castillo found Perez, who was waving for the ball in front of the net. Perez got it past Victor Bernardez, but could not get it past new acquisition Paulo Renato, who had set himself up behind Bingham and alertly cleared the ball.

The first half leaders were the Quakes’ Chris Wondolowski with four shots, one shot on goal and Perez with three shots, two shots on goal.

Both ended up finishing with five shots apiece.

The second half saw five yellow cards, all by San Jose or former players.

The first one came in the 50th minute by former Quake Atiba Harris.

Shaun Francis saw yellow in the 67th minute when he fouled to stop a counterattack.

In the 77th minute, Shea Salinas received a yellow after losing possession to Michael Barrios when Salinas was coming out of the Quakes’ end. Barrios had just entered the game two minutes earlier.

The last two yellows came in stoppage time.

Sanna Nyassi went for the ball and ran into Castillo instead in the 92nd minute.

During the frantic pushing time for the equalizer, Adam Jahn was penalized in the 94th minute for contact.

Talking about the offense, Quakes’ head coach Dominic Kinnear commented, “…away from home, especially in the first half and some other moments, we had some good looks and we were just missing that last little pass, last little bit of aggression to get something on net.”

Game notes: San Jose’s Marvell Wynne played the whole 90 minutes in his team debut. Teammates and MLS newbies Fatai Alashe and Innocent Emeghara came into the game during the 81st and 89th minute respectively. The Quakes are now below .500 on the road versus FC Dallas at 10-11-6. San Jose was also shutout in the teams’ last game, though by a lesser margin, that final 5-0. The Quakes will next face the 2014 Western Conference Champions, the Seattle Sounders, Saturday at 7pm.