SAFC outshoots Indy 13-7 within the loss
INDIANAPOLIS (June 15, 2024) – San Antonio fell 0-1 in a highway contest at Indy Eleven Saturday, dropping to 4-6-5 on the season.
San Antonio missed a chance to transform with an early penalty kick awarded within the sixteenth minute. An SAFC personal aim within the twenty ninth minute proved to be the one distinction maker within the match as San Antonio was unable to discover a breakthrough on aim.
SAFC led Indy with 58% possession and 13 photographs whereas shutting down one of many league’s finest offenses, holding the hosts to 2 photographs on course.
Subsequent Up
San Antonio FC finishes its three-match highway slate at Birmingham Legion FC Wednesday, June 19. Kickoff from Protecting Stadium is ready for 7:00 p.m. CT, and the match will likely be broadcast on ESPN+. This season is introduced by Toyota.
Scoring Abstract
IND: Kendall Burks (Personal aim) 29’
Postgame Notes:
SAFC drops to 4-6-5 on the season with 17 factors, sitting in eighth place within the Western Convention standings.
Machop Chol, Shannon Gomez and Kevon Lambert all make their first begins since coming back from worldwide responsibility.
Defender Nelson Flores Blanco made his first look for the membership since signing on Friday.
SAFC was shutout for simply the third time this season.
SAFC Beginning XI: Kendall McIntosh, Kendall Burks, Richard Windbichler (Kameron Lacey 69’), Mitchell Taintor (captain), Shannon Gomez, Nelson Flores Blanco, Kevon Lambert, Luke Haakenson, Jorge Hernandez, Jake LaCava, Machop Chol (Jose Mulato 83’)
Substitutions Not Used: Eduardo Fernandez, Izaiah Garza, Brandon Gongora, Gio Padilla, Landry Walker
Disciplinary Abstract:
IND: Benjamin Ofeimu (Yellow Card) 2’
SA: Mitchell Taintor (Yellow Card) 32’
SA: Machop Chol (Yellow Card) 50’
IND: Benjamin Mines (Yellow Card) 52’
SA: Shannon Gomez (Yellow Card) 55’
IND: Callum Chapman-Paige (Yellow Card) 79’
IND: Jack Blake (Yellow Card) 80’
Quotes:
Head Coach Alen Marcina
(On the loss…)
“I feel this excessive adversity we’re experiencing over the past eight video games have actually examined us, however our mentality coaching carried out in preseason has ready us for this problem, and this adversity goes to assist us develop as people, collectively as a crew and with time, we’ll be higher for it. Tonight, we dominated possession, we outshot the opponent, we had the higher huge probabilities, we miss a penalty kick, we rating an personal aim, so it’s tough circumstances. We deserved extra from this recreation however all in all, it’s studying, rising and hopefully getting some participant availability within the subsequent couple weeks to place us ready to proceed to compete and acquire factors.”
(On transferring on after the consequence…)
“Indy, within the second, might be the most effective crew within the league. We out-possessed them. Our recreation plan was extremely efficient. We put ourselves in excellent positions. We had huge alternatives – and sure, we now have to get higher at executing these huge alternatives that we did earn. It’s unlucky to concede on that personal aim. The fellows are doing loads of good issues. Once more, we simply want participant availability … Sure, we’re not getting the outcomes, however it’s extraordinarily optimistic performances. We’ll proceed to construct, and we all know what we’re able to once we’re near full energy.”
Defender Shannon Gomez
(On positives to remove from the match…)
“Clearly we’re dissatisfied with the consequence. It’s certainly one of them the place you form of simply kick your self since you dominate the sport in loads of areas and created so many probabilities however couldn’t put it at the back of the online, and I feel these are the encouraging elements that you could take away from the sport and going into the subsequent recreation, which is a fast turnaround. Simply proceed grinding and the outcomes will fall for us however we now have to proceed believing in what we’re doing. The season remains to be lengthy, and we want everybody on board, and we gotta choose up factors as a lot as we will in these subsequent couple video games.”
Defender Richard Windbichler
(On transferring on to Birmingham…)
“I feel trying on the recreation, initially, the consequence will not be what we wished. It doesn’t fulfill us, we all know that, however I feel it was certainly one of our higher – if not, finest – recreation whenever you take a look at the previous month, in order that’s fairly encouraging for the sport Wednesday particularly … It may’ve been a distinct winner at the moment, however it’s simply how it’s. We simply preserve going.”
