Goalkeeper Richard Sanchez information season-high seven saves
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Might 17, 2025) – San Antonio FC suffered its first highway loss in league play Saturday with a 0-4 defeat at Charleston Battery.
SAFC fell behind within the first half following a transformed penalty kick by Charleston within the twenty fourth minute and an personal aim within the thirtieth minute. The hosts doubled their lead with a pair of second-half objectives to seal the three factors.
The consequence snaps a three-match unbeaten streak on the highway to begin the season for SAFC.
Scoring Abstract:
CHS: Cal Jennings (Penalty) 24’
CHS: Mohamed Omar (Personal aim) 30’
CHS: Cal Jennings 58’
CHS: John Klein (Assisted by Rubio Rubín) 90’
Subsequent Up
San Antonio FC has a bye week earlier than it hosts FC Tulsa on Wednesday, Might 28. Kickoff from Toyota Discipline is about for 7:00 p.m. CT, and the match might be broadcast on CBS Sports activities Community. The tenth anniversary season is introduced by Toyota.
Postgame Notes:
SAFC drops to 5-4-1 on the season, remaining atop the Western Convention standings in first place with 16 factors.
San Antonio suffered its first highway loss throughout USL competitors this season, now 2-1-1 away from house.
SAFC was outshot for simply the third time this season, trailing Charleston 12-21 in pictures.
Goalkeeper Richard Sanchez made a season-high seven saves within the match.
Defenders Rece Buckmaster and Alexis Souahy made their first appearances again from damage.
SAFC Beginning XI: Richard Sanchez, Jimmy Medranda, Alex Crognale (Captain), Rece Buckmaster (Dmitrii Erofeev 68’), Mohamed Omar (Alexis Souahy 82’), Lucio Berron, Nicky Hernandez (Almir Soto 68’), Jorge Hernandez, Diogo Pacheco (Luke Haakenson 16’), Andres Paredes (Nelson Flores Blanco 67’), Jake LaCava
Substitutions Not Used: Juan Agudelo, Daniel Namani
Disciplinary Abstract:
SA: Yellow Card (Nicky Hernandez) 23’
SA: Yellow Card (Jorge Hernandez) 34’
SA: Yellow Card (Alex Crognale) 54’
CHS: Yellow Card (Juan Torres) 60’
CHS: Yellow Card (Chris Allan) 65’
Quotes:
Head Coach Carlos Llamosa
(On the loss…)
“It was a foul loss. We didn’t have a very good recreation. There’s a couple of moments the place we managed the ball and we created one thing, however we weren’t constant. We wished to play like that for an extended time period in the course of the 90 minutes, but it surely solely occurred a couple of minutes within the first half. After which a couple of minutes beginning the second half, we weren’t sharp defensively. We weren’t compact, and so they’re a very good group. They put the ball on the bottom and so they performed via us simply, and we now have to do higher defensively as a group.”
(On what the group can study from the sport…)
“All people, together with the coaches, we now have to mirror on this loss. We’ve got 10 days to work, to get the fellows who’re injured again wholesome 100% and be sturdy after we’re again. The subsequent recreation is at house, and we’d like these three factors at house to place us again within the race for the highest of the desk.”
Defender Rece Buckmaster
(On the loss …)
“I imply, from the primary second, I simply don’t assume we had been ok. On the highway, we gotta come out higher. Defensively, we simply let up an excessive amount of. From entrance to again, I feel we may’ve been lots higher, which might’ve modified the momentum within the recreation and actually would’ve modified the consequence, I feel, however we simply study from it. We watch movie and we transfer on and prepare for subsequent week.”
