Luke Haakenson scores his first SAFC goal
MIAMI (April 27, 2024) – San Antonio FC fell to Miami FC 1-2 on the road Saturday, moving the team to 3-2-3 with 12 points.
San Antonio got on the board early for the second straight match, as Luke Haakenson used one touch off a cross from Jorge Hernandez to give SAFC the lead in the 11th minute. Miami was able to grab back a pair of goals in the first half to go up 2-1 and secure the win.
SAFC led Miami with 10 shots while holding 63% possession on the night.
Next Up
San Antonio FC returns to Toyota Field Saturday, May 4 to host Oakland Roots SC. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. CT, and the match will be broadcast on ESPN+ and Bally Sports Southwest. This season is presented by Toyota.
Scoring Summary:
SAFC: Luke Haakenson (Assisted by Jorge Hernandez) 11’
MIA: Luis Pedro 24’
MIA: Michael Lawrence (Assisted by Frank Lopez) 45’
Postgame Notes:
- SAFC drops to 3-2-3 on the season with 12 points, sitting in 5th place in the Western Conference.
- SAFC posted the same starting lineup for the second straight match, the first time this season that the team has used a lineup more than once.
- Four of SAFC’s 12 goals this season have come in the first 15 minutes of play.
- Haakenson’s goal marks his first for the club.
- Jorge Hernandez continues to lead the league in assists, now with four on the season.
- Hernandez is three assists shy of becoming San Antonio’s all-time leader with 14 total in his club career.
SAFC Starting XI: Pablo Sisniega, Trova Boni, Kendall Burks, Mitchell Taintor (captain) (Bura 19’), Shannon Gomez, Luke Haakenson (Jose Mulato 83’), Kevon Lambert, Lucas Silva, Jorge Hernandez, Machop Chol (Kameron Lacey 58’), Juan Agudelo
Substitutions Not Used: Eduardo Fernandez, Kendall McIntosh, Mohamed Omar, Richard Windbichler
Disciplinary Summary:
SAFC: Yellow Card (Shannon Gomez) 6’
SAFC: Yellow Card (Mitchell Taintor) 7’
MIA: Yellow Card (Michael Lawrence) 37’
MIA: Yellow Card (Daniel Gagliardi) 74’
MIA: Yellow Card (Jordan Ayimbila) 90’
SAFC: Yellow Card (Kevon Lambert) 90+2’
MIA: Yellow Card (Gabriel Cabral) 90+3’
Quotes:
Head Coach Alen Marcina
(On the loss…)
““I’m disappointed in the result. I think all great teams must experience adversity and it’s how you respond to adversity which makes a true champion. I know the guys in this moment are hurting. We’ve already reflected, but we will reflect objectively on the game.
We weren’t at our best tonight, we understand that, but we’ll definitely be better for it.
(On preparing for Oakland next week…)
“Right now, we recover. Once we get back to San Antonio, we reflect objectively. Individually, we needed to be better. Collectively, we needed to be better, and we need to perform and execute our principles, which wasn’t present over the course of 90 minutes tonight.”
Defender Shannon Gomez
(On the loss…)
“Collectively, we’re just really disappointed in the result. I don’t think this was San Antonio FC’s way and it wasn’t the right performance. There’s a lot of reflection to take away from this game. Games are hard and we can’t take any of them lightly. Every game is like a final and we need to continue moving forward with that mentality.”
(On bouncing back next week…)
“It’s taking care of the details and playing our way and not deviating from it. All of us collectively just look at ourselves and try to be better. No pointing of the fingers but just collectively just be better, communicate with each other, help each other out. Every game is like a final and everyone wants to beat SAFC, so it’s just always going out and giving 110% regardless of conditions or whatever it might be. There’s always going to be bumps and obstacles we may face, but ultimately we have to focus on SAFC’s way and grinding out a result.”
Defender Kendall Burks
(On the loss…)
“Obviously we didn’t get the three points. Tough loss, we feel like we should’ve come in here and taken care of business, and we didn’t do that, so we have to learn from it and move on and definitely be better for it because tonight obviously wasn’t good enough.”
