EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive FC defeated San Antonio FC 2-1 on Friday night to advance to the Western Conference Semifinals. The Locos will now await the winner of the matchup between Sacramento Republic FC and FC Tulsa.<\/p>\n
Rubio Rub\u00edn opened the scoring for Locomotive in the 14th minute, finishing off a cross from Beto Avila that found its way through the box.<\/p>\n
Rub\u00edn made his presence felt defensively as well, clearing a San Antonio attempt just inches from the goal line to preserve Locomotive\u2019s 1-0 advantage heading into halftime.<\/p>\n
Tony Alfaro doubled the Locos\u2019 lead just minutes into the second half, rising to head home a perfectly lofted cross from Robert Coronado.<\/p>\n
San Antonio cut the deficit in half late in the match, but the visitors were unable to find an equalizer as Locomotive held firm defensively to secure the 2-1 victory and book its place in the Western Conference Semifinals.<\/p>\n
ELP 2, SA 1
Southwest University Park
Attendance: 4078
Weather: 74 degrees and cloudy<\/p>\n
MATCH NOTES<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s victory marks Locomotive\u2019s first playoff win since October 17, 2020, when El Paso defeated New Mexico United in PKs at Southwest University Park.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s match marked the first-ever postseason meeting between El Paso Locomotive FC and San Antonio FC.<\/p>\n
El Paso will have to wait until Sunday to learn its opponent for the Western Conference Semifinals. Should No. 2 seed Sacramento Republic FC advance, Locomotive will travel to Sacramento next weekend. If FC Tulsa comes away with the win, the Locos will return to Southwest University Park to host the Semifinal matchup.<\/p>\n
SCORING SUMMARY<\/p>\n
ELP \u2013 14\u2019 Rubio Rub\u00edn (Beto Avila), 54\u2019 Tony Alfaro (Robert Coronado)<\/p>\n
SA \u2013 \u00a084\u2019 Diogo Pacheco (Luis Paredes)<\/p>\n
LINEUPS \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
ELP \u2013 (3-4-3) Abraham Romero, Tony Alfaro, Palermo Ortiz, Kofi Twumasi (45\u2019 Noah Dollenmayer), Ricky Ruiz (45\u2019 Gabi Torres), Eric Calvillo, Robert Coronado, Alvaro Quezada (85\u2019 Omar Mora), Rubio Rub\u00edn, Beto Avila (66\u2019 Amando Moreno), Alex M\u00e9ndez (82\u2019 Daniel Gomez)<\/p>\n
Subs Not Used: Carl Saint\u00e9, Kenneth Hoban, Trace Alphin<\/p>\n
SA \u2013 (5-4-1) Joseph Batrouni, Mitchell Taintor, Santiago Suarez, Alex Crognale, Nelson Flores, Akeem Ward, Emil Cuello, Curt Calov, Lucio Berron, Cristian Parano, Santiago Patino<\/p>\n
Subs Not Used: Richard Sanchez, Daniel Barbir, Rece Buckmaster<\/p>\n
MISCONDUCT SUMMARY<\/p>\n
ELP \u2013 \u00a020\u2019 Kofi Twumasi, 34\u2019 Palermo Ortiz, 44\u2019 Ricky Ruiz, 45\u2019 Beto Avila, 74\u2019 Tony Alfaro, 88\u2019 Noah Dollenmayer, 90+2\u2019 Robert Coronado<\/p>\n
SA \u2013 30\u2019 Santiago Patino, 37\u2019 Lucio Berron, 65\u2019 Alex Crognale, 90+4\u2019<\/p>\n
MATCH STATS: ELP | SA<\/p>\n
GOALS: 2|1
ASSISTS: 2|1
POSSESSION: 41|59
SHOTS: 10|14
SHOTS ON GOAL: 3|7
SAVES: 6|1
FOULS: 16|16
OFFSIDES: 2|3
CORNERS: 4|8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive FC defeated San Antonio FC 2-1 on Friday night to advance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-482237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482237","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=482237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}