A week after giving up a second-half lead in a home loss, San Antonio FC again found itself with a narrow halftime advantage Saturday in New York.<\/p>\n
This time,\u00a0San Antonio put the game away in the\u00a0second half as Cristian Parano’s goal stood up for a 1-0 win over Brooklyn FC at Maimonides Park.<\/p>\n
San Antonio pressured Brooklyn often in the first half, breaking through on Parano’s goal in the 34th minute. Parano took a crosser from Akeem O’Connor-Ward but was blocked by a tackle from Brooklyn defender Rocco Romeo. Parano played through the contact and tracked the ball, which had ricocheted straight up. As it fell to the ground, he kicked it into the net past Brooklyn goalkeeper Lukas Burns, who had dived to save his first attempt.<\/p>\n
SAFC had nearly taken the lead six minutes earlier on a pair of dangerous chances. Christian Sorto’s powerful right-footed shot from outside the box hit the right post, and Burns recovered from the ground in time to punch Parano’s rebound header over the crossbar.<\/p>\n
It appeared Brooklyn’s Markus Anderson had tied the match in the 69th minute, but he was called offside.<\/p>\n
Minutes prior,\u00a0SAFC goalkeeper Joey Batrouni made the save of the match to preserve the clean sheet.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn took a free kick from outside the box, and Thomas Vancaeyezeele headed it across the box to an unmarked Callum Frogson, who headed it toward the right side of the goal. Batrouni didn’t bite on the first header and leaped far to his left to knock Frogson’s header out of play.<\/p>\n
“At the end of the day, defensively, the guys did well. Joey made a big save, and we held the lead,” SAFC coach Carlos Llamosa\u00a0said. “It wasn’t pretty, the second half, but we got out of here with the win and three points.”<\/p>\n
San Antonio outshot Brooklyn 18-11, including a 6-3 advantage in shots on goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week after giving up a second-half lead in a home loss, San Antonio FC again found itself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-386867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","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\/386867","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=386867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}