With the USMNT moving into Championship Soccer Stadium at Great Park to begin preparation for the FIFA World Cup, the Orange County Soccer Club moved Saturday\u2019s home game to Santa Ana Stadium.<\/p>\n
OCSC made it a memorable night for the nearly 8,000 fans in attendance, defeating Oakland Roots 3-2. Ousmane Sylla scored the winning goal in the 87th minute.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would imagine that was an incredible game to watch from an excitement point of view,\u201d OCSC coach Danny Stone said. \u201cI\u2019m\u00a0hugely proud of the team tonight to come through and to get what was a massively important win for us and to keep us in a good spot in the table, but I think more than anything to give the crowd that came to watch us tonight the result that they deserved.<\/p>\n
The win moved OCSC (5-2-4, 19 points) into second place in the USL Championship\u2019s Western Conference.<\/p>\n
OCSC took a 2-1 lead just after halftime on Stephen Kelly\u2019s goal in the 52nd minute. Oakland tied it in the 58th minute on Peter Wilson\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n
OCSC will play the next seven games on the road. The club will return to Great Park, Aug. 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so important when we play at home, wherever that is, it\u2019s such an important factor in the team\u2019s ability to try to give something back to a stadium and to a crowd and that energy is reciprocal for sure,\u201d Stone said. \u201cWe felt that energy tonight, we felt the crowd tonight, and it was a great atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the past, Santa Ana Stadium once hosted Bayern Munich in a friendly in 1966 against Orange County Soccer Club and against Club America in 1989 in front of a crowd of nearly 12,000, plus a friendly between USMNT and Chivas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the USMNT moving into Championship Soccer Stadium at Great Park to begin preparation for the FIFA World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7,143,145,144,611,338,1083,127],"class_list":["post-331770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-california","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-orange-county","tag-santa-ana","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331770","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=331770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}