{"id":278620,"date":"2026-04-21T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278620\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:05:09","slug":"roots-earn-a-point-in-gritty-1-1-draw-vs-league-leading-fc-tulsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/278620\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots Earn a Point in Gritty 1-1 Draw vs League-Leading FC Tulsa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland started hot and clawed to the finish line in a gritty 1-1 draw with visiting league leaders FC Tulsa on Saturday night, April 18, at the Oakland Coliseum.<\/p>\n

\"Alameda<\/a>Photo by Oakland Roots SC.<\/p>\n

The Roots<\/a> began the match with one of the best plays of their young season when a referee restart near the Oakland penalty area led to a nearly full field Hail Mary lob from Michael Edwards to the other end, finding a sprinting Wolfgang Prentice alone in the back. Prentice beat the keeper to the ball and put a chip header on it that fluttered into the net for his team-leading fourth goal of the season to make it 1-0 Oakland in the fourth minute.<\/p>\n

Following that goal, the Roots continued to dominate the pitch, finding creative ways to attack the Tulsa back line and putting together scoring chances in frequent succession.<\/p>\n

The pitch began to tilt back in Tulsa\u2019s favor, however, after injury substitutions left the Roots without two of their starting defenders. Then an added time red card shown to Neveal Hackshaw following a tackle attempt to stop a breakaway reduced the Roots to 10 men for the rest of the match.<\/p>\n

Dropping back into a defensive position to begin the second half, the Roots were able to thwart many of Tulsa\u2019s advances despite two shots pinging the frame of the goal less than 10 minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n

Tulsa finally capitalized on their steady second-half pressure in the 70th minute when an Owen Damm cross from the right side into the box found Bailey Sparks, who headed it home to level the match at 1-1.<\/p>\n

But Oakland refused to break. They continued to play relentless defense, leaning on goalkeeper Raphael Spiegel, who made save after save worthy of the highlight reel in order to ensure the Roots would leave the pitch up a point despite being down a man on the pitch for the majority of the night.<\/p>\n

The Roots will host Las Vegas Lights FC at the Oakland Coliseum on Wednesday night, April 22, at 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Talking with the head coach<\/p>\n

At the post-game press conference, Roots Head Coach Ryan Martin spoke about the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think even last week, stemming into this week, the resilience of the group is incredible,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI just told them I was incredibly proud of the way they fought for over half of the game with a man down. Got a point, and we actually had some pretty good spells. We thought we maybe could have played more, but I think fatigue obviously came into it. When you throw in two injuries, two substitutions, in the first half, plus the red card situation, and come away with a point against the defending Western Conference champions, I think when you zoom out, it\u2019s a good night at the office.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what\u2019s really, really good,\u201d he continued, \u201cis that the performance in terms of the start of the match was really good, the resiliency was incredible, and the fight to get something was impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about all the changes he was forced to make due to the injuries and the red card, Coach Martin said the team was impressive despite it all. \u201cA lot of people in life piss and moan or \u2018woe is me\u2019 when things start happening, but they (the Roots\u2019 players) didn\u2019t. \u2026 I would shift them left, right, we\u2019d go into five in the back to start the second half. And it was, \u2018Let\u2019s just get on with it and keep going.\u2019 I think that shows the mentality of the group, of where we are. And they\u2019re disappointed we didn\u2019t get three points, quite frankly. And when you\u2019re in that mindset and you compete like that, it\u2019s a recipe for good things, we hope, going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Summary
\nScoring:<\/p>\n

OAK: Wolfgang Prentice 4\u2019
\nTUL: Bailey Sparks 70\u2019<\/p>\n

Discipline:<\/p>\n

OAK: Neveal Hackshaw 28\u2019 (yellow card)
\nTUL: Lucas Stauffer 29\u2019 (yellow card)
\nOAK: Neveal Hackshaw 45\u2019+ (straight red card)
\nOAK: Jesus De Vicente 62\u2019 (yellow card)
\nTUL: Abdoulaye Cissoko 68\u2019 (yellow card)
\nTUL: Alonzo Clarke 90\u2019+ (yellow card)<\/p>\n

Oakland Roots SC<\/p>\n

Lineup:\u00a0Tommy McCabe, David Garcia (Faysal Bettache), Bobosi Byaruhanga, Wolfgang Prentice, Peter Wilson, Jesus De Vicente, Julian Bravo (Neveal Hackshaw), Bertin Jacquesson (Florian Valot), Raphael Spiegel, Michael Edwards, Danny Trejo (Jackson Kiil)<\/p>\n

Unused subs: Kendall McIntosh, Ali Elmasnaouy, Jesse Maldonado Jr., Bradley Roberson, Alejandro Caracheo Luna<\/p>\n

Line: Shots: 7 | Shots On Goal: 4 | Corner Kicks: 1 | Fouls: 8 | Offside: 0<\/p>\n

FC Tulsa<\/p>\n

Lineup:\u00a0Owen Damm, Delentz Pierre, Remi Cabral, Jamie Webber (Raheem Somersall), Kalil ElMedkhar (Bruno Serbena Lapa), Lucas Stauffer (Bailey Sparks), Jeorgio Kocevski, Lamar Batista, Dane Jacomen, Harvey St. Clair (Stefan Lukic) (Alonzo Clarke), Abdoulaye Cissoko<\/p>\n

Unused subs: Ian Carlo Souza Daniel, Alexander Tambakis<\/p>\n

Line: Shots: 20 | Shots On Goal: 8 | Corner Kicks: 4 | Fouls: 14 | Offside: 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland started hot and clawed to the finish line in a gritty 1-1 draw with visiting league leaders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5445,143,145,144,8450,1083,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-278620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda","9":"tag-oakland","10":"tag-oakland-headlines","11":"tag-oakland-news","12":"tag-oakland-roots","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}