SAN ANTONIO \u2013 San Antonio FC and Monterey Bay FC shared the points as they played to a 0-0 draw at Toyota Field on Saturday night that saw Jorge Hern\u00e1ndez hit the woodwork for the hosts with a late penalty after SAFC had been reduced to 10 players.<\/p>\n
After a quiet first half, the game came to lift after the break as Monterey Bay threatened to take the lead in the 54th minute when Omari Glasgow flashed over the crossbar. San Antonio went closer seven minutes later when Akeem Ward picked up possession in the right channel and fired a shot that hit the inside of the left post but caromed away to safety, but the hosts were reduced to 10 players moments later when goalkeeper Joey Batrouni was sent off after bringing down Ilijah Paul just outside the penalty area. <\/p>\n
Monterey Bay was unable to gain from its man advantage, however, and instead San Antonio was handed a chance to take the lead from the penalty spot when Sebastian Lletget was ruled to have handled a free kick by Mikey Maldonado while positioned at the end of a defensive wall. Hern\u00e1ndez stepped up but rang the crossbar with his shot, keeping the game scoreless, leaving honors even and the points shared.<\/p>\n
Takeaways <\/p>\n
San Antonio FC \u2013 The hosts were unable to capitalize on the best chance of the night as Jorge Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s penalty kick rang the crossbar, but the red cards to both goalkeeper Joey Batrouni and center back Mitchell Taintor \u2013 sent off for his second yellow deep in stoppage time after an altercation that also saw a pair of Monterey Bay players shown yellow \u2013 will be a situation to monitor. SAFC has now been held scoreless six times this campaign, and while it\u2019s only lost twice, this felt like a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n
Monterey Bay FC \u2013 Monterey Bay remained winless against San Antonio all-time, but took a third consecutive draw in the series after the sides had also finished scoreless early this season at Cardinale Stadium. MBFC didn\u2019t offer much in attack \u2013 it certainly wasn\u2019t the performance that offered what we were looking for in terms of progress under Head Coach Alex Covelo, which remains reserved for its home displays at present \u2013 but this could still prove a valuable road point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 San Antonio FC and Monterey Bay FC shared the points as they played to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[223,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-361609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}