SAFC Becomes First USL Championship Club to 60 Points on the Season
OAKLAND, Calif. (September 3, 2022) – San Antonio FC defeated Oakland Roots SC 2-0 tonight to move to 19-5-3 on the season with 60 points. The point total is good for the most in the USL Championship, and moves to club eight clear of San Diego Loyal SC for the top spot in the Western Conference. The win is also the team’s 12th road victory of the season, tied for the second most in league history.
San Antonio struck first, after Samuel Adeniran scored in the fifth minute for his team-leading eighth goal of the season. Mohammed Abu assisted on the strike, moving him into a tie for second on the team with five this season.
Adeniran struck again in the 85th minute, this time off of an assist from Shannon Gomez to seal the 2-0 SAFC win. Gomez’s assist was his fifth, moving him into the now three-way tie for second on the team.
Jordan Farr and the SAFC defense kept the club’s 13th clean sheet of the season, tied for the second most in the league and four more than the next-best Western Conference team. Farr’s 11th clean sheet is tied for the second-most in the league, and leads the Western Conference.
SAFC returns home for the first of four straight at Toyota Field against top five teams in the Western Conference. First is San Diego Loyal SC on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 7:300 p.m. CT. Tickets are available now at SanAntonioFC.com or the SAFC app, and the match will be broadcast on ESPN+.
Scoring Summary:
SAFC: 1-0, Samuel Adeniran (Assisted by Mohammed Abu) 5’
SAFC: 2-0, Samuel Adeniran (Assisted by Shannon Gomez) 85’
Disciplinary Summary:
SAFC: Yellow Card (PC) 22’
OAK: Yellow Card (Lindo Mfeka) 23’
SAFC: Yellow Card (Santiago Patiño) 65’
SAFC: Yellow Card (Jasser Khmiri) 67’
OAK: Yellow Card (Guillermo Diaz) 90+3’
Attendance: 5,093
SAFC Starting XI: GK: Jordan Farr; D: Shannon Gomez, Carter Manley, Jasser Khmiri, Mitchell Taintor, Connor Maloney; M: PC (captain), Cristian Parano (Nicky Hernandez 68’), Mohammed Abu, F: Santiago Patiño (Ignacio Bailone 76’), Samuel Adeniran (Elliot Collier 86’)
Substitutions not used: Grant Makela, Jordy Delem, Deshane Beckford
Postgame Notes:
- SAFC moves to 19-5-2 on the season with 60 points, leading the USL Championship and the first club to 60 points.
- Samuel Adeniran’s goal in the fifth minute was his team-leading eighth of the season.
- Mohammed Abu’s assist on Adeniran’s goal was his fifth of the season, tied with PC for the second-most on the team.
- Adeniran’s second goal in the 85th minute gave him his third brace of the season, and extended his team lead in goals with nine.
- Shannon Gomez’s assist on Adeniran’s second goal was his fifth of the season, tied with Abu and PC for second on the team.
- Jordan Farr’s 11th clean sheet of the season is tied for the second-most in the USL Championship, and the most in the Western Conference.
- The win gives SAFC 12 road victories this season, tied for the second-most in a season in USL Championship history.
- SAFC moves to 17-0-0 when scoring first this season.
Quotes:
Head Coach Alen Marcina
(On the win…)
“It was a big win, incredibly proud of the players. We were incredibly cohesive in our pressing actions, [I] felt our press was dominant from start to finish, we forced Oakland into some bad situations, won the ball in some good spots, created a number of opportunities off our pressing actions, ultra-competitive. Every single one of the players, ultra-competitive. They wanted to win their one versus one duel, it’s something we asked of them. That’s the first ball, second ball, balls in behind. Ultra-competitive. Proud of them for that. And they were resilient. You know we had a number of opportunities, we didn’t put them away. But they kept going. And continued to create opportunities, and Sam put us up 2-0, and the rest is history.”
Defender Mitchell Taintor
(On the bounce back performance…)
“It was one of our most complete team performances [like the ones] that we were
having the first half of the year, when we were having a bunch of success. So I think it was really good to have everything kind of come together before a big game against San Diego. So I think we just need to keep steady heads and keep going at it this week, we’ve had three great weeks of training and we’ve gotta keep that going.”
