Oluwaseyi Tallies First 4-Objective Match in SAFC Historical past and Strikes into League Lead with 13 Targets
SAN ANTONIO (July 29, 2023) – San Antonio FC got here from behind to defeat Hartford Athletic 5-2 tonight, behind a club-record four-goal match from Tani Oluwaseyi. The win strikes SAFC to 10-4-7 on the season with 37 factors, good for second within the USL Championship Western Convention.
Hartford opened the scoring within the tenth minute, marking the third-straight match with SAFC failing to attain first.
San Antonio answered rapidly, with Oluwaseyi scoring his tenth and eleventh objectives of the season within the fifteenth and thirtieth minutes to take the 2-1 lead.
Jorge Hernandez assisted on each objectives to tie Oluwaseyi for the staff lead with 5, 4 of which have gone to Oluwaseyi. The entire is nice to tie each gamers for second-most within the league.
Hartford would reply again within the thirty fourth, scoring to make it a 2-2 match heading into halftime.
The scoreline would maintain till the 74th minute, when Justin Dhillon headed in a objective to place San Antonio forward 3-2. Then inside 5 minutes, Oluwaseyi added one other to make it a 4-2 lead.
The objective got here on an help from Dhillon, and gave Oluwaseyi his third hat trick of the yr and second within the month of July. Oluwaseyi joins Matt Fondy in 2015 as the one gamers in USL Championsip historical past to document three hat tips in a single season.
Then in stoppage time, the Minnesota United loanee added a fourth. Oluwaseyi stepped in entrance of a Hartford cross and buried the shot to make it a 5-2 last, and convey his season objective complete to 13.
Oluwaseyi’s 13 scores lead the league and are probably the most in a single common season in SAFC historical past, coming in simply 12 matches. The St. John’s product has averaged a objective each 77.7 minutes since becoming a member of San Antonio on mortgage in Might.
Subsequent Up
San Antonio FC performs the following two on the highway, beginning Saturday at Phoenix Rising FC. Kickoff is about for 9:00 p.m. CT, and might be streamed on ESPN+.
Postgame Notes:
San Antonio FC strikes to 10-4-7 (37 factors) on the season to stay second within the USL Championship Western Convention.
Midfielder PC began his first match since April 15 at Louisville Metropolis FC.
Ahead Tani Oluwaseyi’s 4 objectives in a single match are a brand new membership finest, and his 13 objectives on the season are probably the most in a single common season in SAFC historical past.
Oluwaseyi’s 13 objectives this season lead the league, regardless of showing in solely 12 matches.
Oluwaseyi has scored a objective for each 77.7 minutes performed in his 12 matches this season.
Oluwaseyi’s 4 objectives make three matches this season with three or extra objectives, turning into the second participant in USL Championship historical past to document three hat tips in a single season.
Oluwaseyi finishes the month of July with two hat tips, eight objectives and two assists.
Midfielder Jorge Hernandez’s assists had been his fourth and fifth of the season, tied for the staff lead with Oluwaseyi. Moreover, 4 of Hernandez’s assists this yr have gone to Oluwaseyi.
Ahead Justin Dhillon scored and assisted tonight, bringing his profession complete to fifteen objectives and 15 assists with SAFC.
Midfielder Rida Zouhir assisted on Dhillon’s objective, his third of the yr.
San Antonio completed the match with a club-record 32 photographs, together with 12 on the right track.
After permitting eight photographs from Hartford within the first half, SAFC held the guests with out a shot after halftime.
Attendance: 6,510
Quotes:
Head Coach Alen Marcina
(On the win…)
“Domination from begin to end. We got here out the aggressors, with and with out the ball, urgent actions had been incredible. The dedication to maneuver the ball quick, getting behind after which get numbers within the field was incredible. Happy with the gamers response from final week. Final week, we mentioned I believe Monday or Tuesday was we had been simply ready for issues to occur, the place tonight we made issues occur. And true story we mentioned at meaning a 5-4 recreation, a 6-4 recreation and it doesn’t matter. I’m glad we mentioned it as a result of they scored first however we had been dominating. Error on our finish, must be taught, must be higher for it. However we had been dominating, the depth didn’t shift. For that cause, I’m extremely pleased with the fellows and it was a well-earned, nicely deserved three factors.”
(On responding after final week’s loss…)
“Mentality monsters, proper? Each recreation we play prefer it’s our final recreation. Prefer it’s a last. Play every half prefer it’s our final half. That’s what we’ve been doing since 2020 now that doesn’t all the time imply that you just’re going to get the consequence, however that has been the mentality and like I mentioned final recreation, don’t wish to hold bringing that up however there was a slight shift, it wasn’t dangerous like in the event you have a look at objectively we did have 20 photographs so it wasn’t all too dangerous, however the mentality wasn’t there from begin to end and we be taught from that that was the most important problem tonight, can we show these behaviors from begin to end and the fellows undoubtedly did they usually obtained rewarded for it.”
(On if he was nervous after the early objective from Hartford…)
“No and right here’s the rationale why, I waited for the primary minute [after allowing the goal] to see what we had been going to do the primary minute. Had been the heads gonna drop? We had been dominating earlier than that, they didn’t harm us, and it’s a mistake it occurs. Don’t prefer it, imagine me. I don’t like conceding objectives, neither do the gamers down there. However instantly that first minute says nope, we had an opportunity you don’t know in that second if we’re coming again or we’re going to win the sport, we’ve obtained an opportunity as a result of the mentality stayed because it was from the primary whistle of the sport.”
Ahead Justin Dhillon
(On scoring off the bench…)
“I believe at that time within the recreation I used to be coming in as an attacker attempting to make a distinction. Alen was fairly clear with us that he felt that guys off the bench didn’t contribute sufficient so this week going into it I had it behind my thoughts that I wanted to make a distinction for the staff and fortunately an incredible ball got here in from Rida and obtained on the tip of it and from that time on I believe the fellows obtained higher confidence and we closed out the sport fairly nicely.”
(On if the staff wanted final week’s loss…)
“I don’t know if I’d say it wanted to occur, I believe that the truth that it did and the truth that we had been capable of simply tackle every little thing, have a extremely troublesome week of coaching and form of get a kick within the butt, I imply it’s a championship staff. We compete yearly for that, that’s what our objectives are and on the finish of the day performances like that aren’t gonna get us there. It occurred final week, we discovered from it, we responded, and now it’s about taking that response and transferring ahead to the following recreation and the one afterwards.”
Ahead Tani Oluwaseyi
(On if he looks like he’s going to attain extra as soon as he sees one go in…)
“To be trustworthy, each recreation when that first one goes in – I all the time count on to attain each time I play. However when that first one there’s form of like a ‘okay, now we will form of chill out and hold taking part in.’ So often for me once I see the primary one go in I simply get hungry to attempt to get yet another. And I used to be capable of get three extra right this moment so, fairly good.”
(On whether or not final week’s loss contributed to tonight’s efficiency…)
“I believe throughout the board it was a troublesome week of coaching for each single participant, all of us needed to do some self reflection, look ourselves within the mirror, and simply say to ourselves that that simply wasn’t ok. That’s not SAFC requirements, that’s not the usual that we set this season and never the usual that Alen and the remainder of the employees have set since they obtained right here. So it’s a matter of doing that self reflection and saying to one another ‘hey, can’t occur once more. That was only a blip and it’ll by no means occur once more.’ I believe all people got here right here to present 110 p.c, they performed actually arduous. Each man who got here on performed simply as arduous because the man that went off so it was form of a collective effort.”
