SAFC overcomes multi-goal deficit to defeat defending league champions
SAN ANTONIO (April 23, 2025) – San Antonio FC pushed its unbeaten streak over Colorado Springs to 14 straight matches because it defeated the Switchbacks 3-2 Wednesday evening at Toyota Subject.
It was a story of two halves between the Western Convention rivals, with San Antonio falling behind 0-2 after a pair of Switchbacks targets within the twenty first and forty second minutes.
Jorge Hernandez as soon as once more discovered the scoresheet for San Antonio, turning on the prime of the field and discovering area to shoot and catch the keeper off guard for the workforce’s first purpose within the 51st minute. The midfielder then confirmed off his playmaking prowess, helping Mohamed Omar’s header to tie the match within the 58th minute.
Alex Greive secured all three factors with the profitable purpose within the sixty fifth minute because the ahead poked the ball by means of the Switchbacks protection to present SAFC the 3-2 outcome.
San Antonio FC strikes again into first place within the Western Convention standings with 15 factors, bettering to 5-2-0 in league play.
Scoring Abstract:
COS: Matthew Actual (Assisted by Steven Echevarria) 21’
COS: Justin Dhillon (Assisted by Herbert Endeley) 42’
SA: Jorge Hernandez (Assisted by Alex Crognale) 51’
SA: Mohamed Omar (Assisted by Jorge Hernandez) 58’
SA: Alex Greive (Assisted by Almir Soto) 65’
Subsequent Up
San Antonio FC hits the highway for its first USL Jägermeister Cup group-stage match towards Phoenix Rising FC. Kickoff is ready for 9:00 p.m. CT, and the match might be broadcast on ESPN+. The tenth anniversary season is offered by Toyota.
Postgame Notes:
SAFC improves to 5-2-0 on the season, sitting atop the Western Convention standings in first place with 15 factors.
San Antonio strikes to 13-3-6 all-time towards Colorado Springs, remaining unbeaten towards the Switchbacks in 14 straight conferences courting again to 2019.
Midfielder Jorge Hernandez scored his team-leading fourth purpose of the marketing campaign, doubling his complete from every of the final two seasons, whereas additionally offering his first help of the 12 months.
Midfielder Mohamed Omar scored his first purpose for the membership, changing into the eighth totally different scorer for SAFC this season.
Ahead Alex Greive scored his second purpose of the season, now the third SAFC participant to web a number of targets in 2025.
San Antonio FC earns its second multi-goal comeback of the season, additionally defeating Lexington SC 3-2 in March.
SAFC has scored in its final 13 USL Championship matches, scoring 22 targets in that run.
SAFC gained for the primary time after trailing at halftime since October 2024.
San Antonio’s 13 targets are tied for essentially the most in USL Championship.
Hernandez made his one hundred and fiftieth USL Championship common season look within the match.
San Antonio recorded a season-high 16 photographs and 7 photographs heading in the right direction within the match.
SAFC Assistant Coach Fredy Herrera stepped in as performing head coach whereas Carlos Llamosa served his one-game suspension from final match’s pink card.
Defender Mitchell Taintor made his first look again from harm, taking part in the complete 90 minutes.
Attendance: 3,735
SAFC Beginning XI: Richard Sanchez, Jimmy Medranda (Nicky Hernandez 78’), Mitchell Taintor (Captain), Alex Crognale, Nelson Flores Blanco, Almir Soto, Juan Osorio (Mohamed Omar 45’), Luke Haakenson (Lucio Berron 45’), Jorge Hernandez, Andres Paredes (Juan Agudelo 88’), Alex Greive (Diogo Pacheco 78’)
Substitutions Not Used: Shannon Gomez, Dyllan Mendoza, Daniel Namani
Disciplinary Abstract:
COS: Yellow Card (Marco Micaletto) 3’
SA: Yellow Card (Lucio Berron) 48’
COS: Crimson Card (Matthew Actual) 56’
SA: Yellow Card (Jimmy Medranda) 71’
SA: Yellow Card (Diogo Pacheco) 87’
COS: Yellow Card (Aidan Rocha) 88’
COS: Yellow Card (Juan Tejada) 90+2’
Quotes:
Assistant Coach Fredy Herrera
(On the win…)
“To start with, it’s not straightforward to come back again from a two-zero recreation. It takes lots of braveness to stay to the sport plan, and the blokes did it. As a workers, we simply need to say we’re happy with them for the way in which they reacted. There’s all the time area to develop, issues to appropriate, and that’s what we be taught from, from the targets we conceded, however, you recognize, completely satisfied to realize the purpose that we had, getting these three factors, and at this level, if I’m not mistaken, we’re first within the league, in order that’s one in every of our targets.”
(On the distinction within the second half…)
“Further vitality, I might say. As a workers, we instructed them that we had been okay with the way in which they had been taking part in. We had been creating, particularly within the construct up part we had been doing good issues, and there have been lots of issues to be happy with, of the way in which we did it. We simply want that last third, having extra sturdy actions there, after which that was just about what we centered on within the first half and it was simply, you recognize, the additional mile that we would have liked to run simply to get contained in the field. And that to our workforce will make the distinction. Further vitality.
(On the workforce’s totally different goalscorers this season…)
“I believe it’s teamwork. The [striker] place is judged by what number of targets you rating, however as a workers, as coaches, we glance all of the issues they do to create probabilities to produce other gamers scoring targets. It’s teamwork. We don’t actually go by that one participant. We go as a workforce, and we do good issues. We’re rising, and we’re very completely satisfied for greater than the outcome, the way in which we play. I believe we’re reaching issues which might be going to get us to a great place on the desk, for certain.”
Midfielder Mohamed Omar
(On what tonight’s win means following the previous few matches…)
“I’ll be fully sincere. The previous few weeks, though the outcomes haven’t been going our approach, I’ve truly felt like we’ve been taking part in some respectable soccer, so I believe a match like tonight, it solely reiterates that we proceed to have faith and perception in our approach, and the outcome will communicate for itself, and particularly tonight, I believe that simply builds the group’s resilience. It exhibits that’s a gaggle that’s all the time going to going to persevere and by no means again down.”
(On the workforce’s halftime speak being down 0-2…)
“The halftime message was simply one in every of persevering with to consider. There’s going to be targets conceded in video games. There’s two groups combating for a similar outcome, the identical three factors, however I didn’t essentially really feel like our group had any motive to really feel apprehensive. It’s a superb Colorado facet, however that’s simply me having complete perception and confidence in our group and what we do, and I believe you guys noticed that within the second half. It was only a group that was resilient, continued to persevere, and we leaned on everybody.”
(On scoring his first purpose for the membership…)
“That purpose simply got here with so many various feelings. , final season was troublesome, simply coping with the harm and feeling bummed out as a result of I wasn’t capable of be on the market with my brothers and be on that pitch with them, so coming on this season, I simply felt rejuvenated and had rather a lot to show, not solely to myself, however to all people, and on prime of that, I had some household within the crowd tonight, in order that, that made it actually, actually particular as properly.”
Midfielder Jorge Hernandez
(On how the workforce shut down Colorado Springs defensively within the second half …)
“I believe it was simply insecurity and speaking from the entire workforce. The primary half was very sluggish, and simply lastly that second half we got here out extra assured, and that modified the entire momentum, you recognize? And after we begin urgent, when the entire workforce begins urgent, it’s exhausting to get by us.”
(On the pivotal second within the second half…)
“We stated we’re going to come back out with all the pieces, and if we rating one purpose taking part in at dwelling, you recognize, behind all our supporters and our followers, we all know that it’s fairly [tough] for the opposite workforce. It’s stress from us, stress from the followers. We knew if we acquired a purpose early, we had been going to win this recreation, and that’s precisely what occurred.”
