SAFC shut out for simply the second time this season
SAN ANTONIO (June 5, 2024) – San Antonio fell to El Paso Locomotive FC 0-1 Saturday, dropping to 4-4-5 on the season with 17 factors.
After a bodily first half between the rivals, El Paso struck within the sixty fifth minute, changing a free kick from simply exterior the field to place the guests up.
The loss was San Antonio’s first at residence since July 22, 2023, breaking an unbeaten streak that included 15 USL Championship matches between the common season and playoffs.
Subsequent Up
San Antonio FC hits the street to face FC Tulsa Saturday, June 8. Kickoff from ONEOK Discipline is ready for 7:30 p.m. CT, and the match will likely be broadcast on ESPN+ and Bally Sports activities Southwest. This season is introduced by Toyota.
Scoring Abstract
ELP: Brandan Craig 65’
Postgame Notes:
SAFC strikes to 4-4-5 on the season with 17 factors, sitting in fifth place within the Western Convention.
Ahead Jake LaCava makes his membership debut and first begin since his switch to SAFC Monday.
Defender Richard Windbichler makes his first begin in league play.
The loss snaps a 15-match unbeaten streak at Toyota Discipline. SAFC is 21-3-18 at residence for the reason that begin of the 2022 season.
SAFC Professional Academy product Gio Padilla and Izaiah Garza made their first-ever appearances in USL play. Padilla beforehand featured in SAFC’s 2022 and 2023 U.S. Open Cup runs.
Goalkeeper Kendall McIntosh made three saves within the match.
Attendance: 5,805
SAFC Beginning XI: Kendall McIntosh, Richard Windbichler, Kendall Burks, Mitchell Taintor (captain), Carter Manley (Gio Padilla 9’), Luke Haakenson, Jorge Hernandez, Jake LaCava, Kameron Lacey (Izaiah Garza 84’), Hugo Mbongue (Jose Mulato 52’), Juan Agudelo
Substitutions Not Used: Eduardo Fernandez, Brandon Gongora, Landry Walker
Disciplinary Abstract:
ELP: Yellow Card (Liam Rose) 23’
ELP: Yellow Card (Tony Alfaro) 30’
SA: Yellow Card (Hugo Mbongue) 53’
SA: Yellow Card (Jorge Hernandez) 78’
ELP: Yellow Card (Ricardo Zacarias) 90+6’
Quotes:
Head Coach Alen Marcina
(On the loss…)
“Yeah, we deserve extra from that sport. The sport could be merciless at instances. You realize we had, going into this sport, 9 gamers out worldwide responsibility and damage. You will have one in every of our execs, Carter Manley, go down 5, six minutes into the match, so we’re dealing with a whole lot of adversity, for sure, and that’s most likely roughly over six weeks and once more, the blokes fought over the course of the sport. I felt we positively earned greater than we bought tonight. So proper now we simply make greatest efforts to get better as greatest we are able to after which focus is on Tulsa.”
(On shifting on to Tulsa Saturday…)
“Yeah, it’s finished now, so at all times now we have postgame fast reflection and proper now it’s recovering. We now have a sport in two days. It’s possibly lower than preferrred to have three video games in eight days with so few our bodies however we’re mentality monsters, proper? We’ll get via this once more. The adversity will finish, and are available afterward within the season, I feel we’ll positively have probably the most resilient crew that exists within the league.”
Defender Mitchell Taintor
(On positives to remove from the match…)
“I hate the phrase excuse and simply saying we’re low on our bodies, nevertheless it’s type of a makeshift crew, jigsaw puzzle in the meanwhile. You realize, we get one man again in Carter [Manley], after which he goes down, so we’re juggling a whole lot of items proper now, and no matter the place El Paso is within the desk, I mentioned earlier, they’re a improbable crew with a whole lot of high quality. They’re skilled guys as effectively, and with the place we’re at, I felt like we performed a extremely good sport and deserved extra from it, so I’m gonna go watch the tape and the positives with Gio Padilla taking part in a improbable sport, blocking up their guys in his first professional sport, Richard getting his first 90 minutes right here. I assumed he performed an excellent sport as effectively. Guys are taking part in out of place and you recognize, we need to win. We have to win. It’s what we would like right here, so it’s going to return, however these are the positives that we have to take.”
Defender Kendall Burks
(On the crew pushing ahead after falling behind…)
“Guys are resilient. I feel now we have 9 guys out. Hats off to the blokes that got here on. I feel we had two academy guys make their debuts tonight. They performed actually, rather well once they got here on, couldn’t ask extra of them. Gio [Padilla] was excellent, and I assumed he defended rather well. We simply bought to maintain going. Numbers are actually, actually low. We now have guys with nationwide crew responsibility and clearly a whole lot of accidents, and we simply have to get wholesome and simply maintain going ahead. It’s a protracted season.”
