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By Marko Ukalovic and Alexandra Evans

SAN JOSE — The San Jose Earthquakes (2-9-4) are becoming a second half team as of late. Danny Hoesen scored two goals to help San Jose to a 2-2 draw with the New England Revolution (6-4-6) at Avaya Stadium on Wednesday evening. San Jose is now winless in their past six games.

The Quakes drew first blood in the 19th minute when Danny Hoesen was able to take possession of a ball off a deflection. He dribbled in from 20 yards out and fired a shot past Revolution goalkeeper Matt Turner into the left corner of the net. It was Hoesen’s team leading ninth goal of the season.

Diego Fagundez got the equalizer for the Revolution in the 31st minute off a free kick from 18 yards out. Fagundez, a Uruguayan midfielder, was able to bend his shot inside the left corner of the goal beating Quakes goalie Andrew Tarbell for his fifth goal of the season.

Vako had two scoring chances to give San Jose the lead two minutes apart. In the 35th minute, he received a pretty centering feed from Magnus Eriksson from 15 yards out only to have his shot hit the right post. Then, in the 37th minute, he made a nice move dribbling between two New England defenders, but Turner made a great save on his shot that was headed for the right corner.

The Revolution would take the lead on a nice counter attack that started with Kristian Nemeth finding Fagundez in the middle of the pitch who then sent a pass over to the left side to Cristian Penilla who raced in and rifled a shot past Tarbell in the upper right corner of the goal for his sixth goal of the season.

“Mental mistakes,” said Quakes captain Chris Wondolowski on his team’s defensive lapses. “We keep shooting ourselves in the foot. When we’re organized it’s hard to break us down defensively. When we don’t track runners, get too passive, we get punished and rightfully so.”

The Quakes would answer back right out of the gate in the second half when Nick Lima chased down a ball into the right corner and was able to cross the ball into the center of the box were Hoesen was in perfect position to one-time a header past Turner into the lower left corner of the net for his 10th goal of the season and second of the match in the 51st minute.

“When things are not going well, players (can) get selfish,” said Hoesen. “But we want to get out of this thing (winless streak), it doesn’t matter who scores or gets the assists we want to help each other and be happy together.”

The Quakes had a golden opportunity for the game winning goal in the third minute of stoppage time when Hoesen dribbled down the left side of the pitch just inside the defensive box, stopped and crossed the ball into the middle that was just beyond the reach of Jackson Yueill, who just came into the game a minute earlier as a substitution for Eriksson.

Teal Bunbury, whose four-game goal scoring streak came to an end, had a point-blank shot stopped in 59th minute by Tarbell.

Quakes head coach Mikael Stahre didn’t like how his team gave up what he coined “easy goals” to New England near the end of the first half but like the fight his team showed in the second half to come back to tie to the game.

“We came out in the second half like against LAFC,” said Stahre. “We created lots of chances. I think we were better than the opponent, but (the end result) was still a tie. A step in the right direction I think.”

GAME NOTES: Quakes defenseman Shea Salinas missed his second game due to an hamstring injury. Kevin Partida was suspended for the match after earning two yellow cards in the match against LAFC this past Saturday.

Revolution defenseman Antonio Milnar Delamea earned a yellow card in the 71st minute on a sliding tackle on Magnus Eriksson. Quakes defenseman also earn a yellow marker in the 35th minute for unsportsmanlike conduct.

San Jose had 10 corner kicks as opposed to New England’s 9.

Teal Bunbury’s four-game goal streak ended.

Fatai Alashe substituted in for Yefferson Quintana in the 61st minute as Quintana was kicked in the thigh during a sliding tackle attempt earlier in the second half.

New England is now unbeaten in their last five games and their streak is now at six games (3-0-3) against San Jose. This was the third consecutive draw in the last three meetings. San Jose is 10-6-5 at home and leads the overall season 20-14-8 against New England.

UP NEXT: The Quakes travel to Salt Lake City to take on Real Salt Lake on Saturday on June 23 at 7 pm PDT at Rio Tinto Stadium.