Marco Reus goal lifts Galaxy to tie with rival San José Earthquakes at Stanford Stadium

STANFORD — Marco Reus scored in the 70th minute and the Galaxy played the San José Earthquakes to a 1-1 draw on Saturday night in the 104th edition of the California Clásico.

The Galaxy (1-14-5) are unbeaten in their past eight road matches (Stanford Stadium and PayPal Park) across all competitions against San José (7-8-5) dating to June 26, 2021.

San José native Beau Leroux opened the scoring in the 16th minute with a shot into the upper-right corner for his fourth of the season. He settled Mark-Anthony Kaye’s cross with his left foot and curled in a shot with his right from the top of the 18-yard box.

San José goalkeeper Daniel stopped an initial attempt in the 70th, but it bounced right back to Reus for an easy touch home. It was Reus’ first game wearing the captain’s armband.

“Marco has been outstanding in these games,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said of Reus, who has contributed 10 goals in 10 matches. “... He’s just such an intelligent player. He is so just smooth and taking the ball under pressure in these games where teams are trying to match up one-on-one, he’s good, his touch is soft, he uses his body very well to protect the ball.”

Daniel made several key saves. He came out of his area to deny Joseph Paintsil on a one-on-one opportunity in the 60th. He also got a hand on Gabriel Pec’s shot on a counterattack in the 88th.

The Galaxy entered with just three of a possible 33 points on the road this season. The team hopes to build on the tie and push for more wins moving forward.

“If you [saw] our front guys last year, the way they were just scoring basically kind of for fun, obviously this year has been a different story,” Galaxy defender Mathias Jorgensen, who typically goes by just the nickame Zanka. “We’re trying to work with them to make sure we put them in those situations to be successful as much as possible. We got to keep supporting them even though at the moment it’s not really going our way. May need a little bit more chances than we hoped for to score goals.

“Obviously we do everything as a team. We lose together. We miss and make mistakes together. Hopefully at some point we’re going to transition and kind of evolve that into scoring a lot of goals.”

San José announced the club sold 40,000 tickets for the game.