Jorge Hernandez scores in second straight dwelling match for SAFC
SAN ANTONIO (Could 10, 2025) – San Antonio FC dropped a 1-2 outcome to Oakland Roots SC at Toyota Discipline Saturday.
SAFC dominated on the offensive facet for a lot of the match, placing early as Jorge Hernandez slotted dwelling a end from a tough angle within the twelfth minute for his fifth purpose of the season. Oakland transformed a penalty kick to tie the match at 1-1 shortly after within the twenty fifth minute.
A defensive error allowed Oakland to attain the game-winning purpose within the 84th minute, taking its first win over San Antonio within the all-time collection.
SAFC outshot Oakland 21-7 within the match, additionally main the guests in pictures on the right track 6-4.
Scoring Abstract:
SA: Jorge Hernandez (Assisted by Nicky Hernandez) 12’
OAK: Jose Sinisterra (Penalty) 25’
OAK: Peter Wilson 84’
Subsequent Up
San Antonio FC heads again on the street to tackle Charleston Battery on Saturday, Could 17. Kickoff is ready for six:30 p.m. CT, and the match might be broadcast on CBS Sports activities Golazo Community. The tenth anniversary season is introduced by Toyota.
Postgame Notes:
SAFC drops to 5-3-1 on the season, remaining atop the Western Convention standings in first place with 16 factors.
Midfielder Jorge Hernandez scored his team-leading fifth purpose of the marketing campaign, with 4 of his scores coming at Toyota Discipline.
Jorge Hernandez is tied for fifth-most objectives within the league.
Nicky Hernandez assisted his first purpose of the common season and his second throughout all competitions.
SAFC has scored in eight of its 9 league matches, scoring first in 4 of these contests.
SAFC has scored in its final 15 USL Championship dwelling matches.
San Antonio set a brand new season-high with 21 pictures within the match, and its 116 pictures leads USL Championship this season.
Attendance: 6,507
SAFC Beginning XI: Richard Sanchez, Jimmy Medranda, Mitchell Taintor (Captain), Alex Crognale, Nelson Flores Blanco (Jake LaCava 74’), Mohamed Omar, Almir Soto (Luke Haakenson 90+3’), Nicky Hernandez (Alex Greive 90+3’), Jorge Hernandez, Andres Paredes, Juan Agudelo (Diogo Pacheco 74’)
Substitutions Not Used: Lucio Berron, Dmitrii Erofeev, Dyllan Mendoza, Daniel Namani
Disciplinary Abstract:
OAK: Yellow Card (Ilya Alekseev) 4’
SA: Yellow Card (Jorge Hernandez) 14’
SA: Yellow Card (Alex Crognale) 22’
SA: Yellow Card (Mitchell Taintor) 30’
SA: Second Yellow Card (Mitchell Taintor) 89’
OAK: Yellow Card (Kendall McIntosh) 90+5’
Quotes:
Head Coach Carlos Llamosa
(On the loss…)
“Effectively, tonight was painful. I do know we’ve misplaced earlier than right here, however these different video games we didn’t create conditions. At this time, we misplaced due to a [penalty kick] and a mistake, however I consider out of all of the video games that we performed, tonight, was once I noticed the fellows attacking the opposition field with numbers and crosses, particularly crosses coming from [Andres] Paredes on the best facet, we had numbers. You understand, we missed a couple of headers. The goalkeeper made two saves, and defenders had been blocking. That’s one thing that we had been focusing on prior to now, how we’re going to create extra alternatives in entrance of the opposition, and I consider right now was an enchancment. The fellows related. We attacked the field, however we couldn’t rating. That’s why I say it’s extra painful than the opposite losses at dwelling. After the work that we placed on the sphere, we’re going dwelling empty handed.”
(On Oakland’s penalty kick appearing as a turning level…)
“To that time, I assumed we had management of the sport. We scored a purpose. We created different possibilities. Might’ve been two-zero at that time, however the PK gave them a lift. As I mentioned earlier than the sport, that’s a workforce who’s extra organized, who’s taking part in arduous and may be very disciplined in what they’re doing, so it’s not straightforward to create purpose alternatives round these again 5 that they’ve, however right now, I feel we did job, particularly on the best facet.”
(On the workforce’s third loss at dwelling…)
“That’s one thing we spoke about down there. You understand, this needs to be a fortress. That is our home. We’re taking part in in entrance of our followers, our household, so I don’t know if that offers us further strain. Having the households within the stands, having the followers within the stands, it’s completely different than taking part in away … that’s one thing that we have to tackle with the workforce, with the gamers, coaches, however we can not lose three dwelling video games, particularly once we’re doing so effectively away from dwelling, so I instructed them, if we need to be a championship contender, we must be the identical workforce dwelling or away.”
Defender Alex Crognale
(On the workforce’s offensive manufacturing…)
“If we weren’t creating possibilities, that may concern me, however we’re, and it’s simply having the killer intuition and deciding that whoever it’s on the workforce, that they’re going to be the man to go and get the purpose, and I really feel like that’s what we’d like. You understand, Jorge is developing in large moments, placing objectives away, however as a gaggle, we have to discover objectives and discover methods to, once we get these possibilities, simply put them behind the web.”
(On the workforce needing to be extra ruthless in entrance of purpose…)
“Completely, I feel it’s big, particularly as a result of now we have such a gifted workforce, such a deep workforce. It doesn’t matter who steps up and who’s on the sphere, we all know we’re gonna have a gaggle that’s aggressive and might put out good performances. It’s simply making the tackles, making the best choices, after which, like I mentioned, once we’re there, placing the ball behind the web and ending off these possibilities as a result of we’re creating them. We simply received to place the ball away.”
Midfielder Nicky Hernandez
(On the loss…)
“We performed effectively defensively. We didn’t give them quite a lot of alternatives. They simply transformed on the 2 errors we made, in order that’s it. We simply need to do our half and convert our possibilities … We’re getting in good spots. We in all probability want slightly bit extra focus in entrance of purpose, slightly bit extra ruthlessness, actually. We received to start out successful these video games by greater than only one, two objectives. This recreation may have been simply three to 4 objectives.”
