USL Oakland Roots

Oakland Roots Settle for Draw against Austin Bold

Published on June 28, 2021 under United Soccer League Championship (USL)
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Oakland Roots get their first clean sheet of the season as goalkeeper Zeus de la Paz made his return to the team after being on international duty with Curacao. While Austin outshot Roots sixteen to three, Roots defense held strong. Roots look to stout defensively, as they travel down to Southern California this Tuesday to face San Diego Loyal who are coming off a win against Las Vegas. Despite neither team finding the back of the net, the match was a tough battle with six players receiving yellow cards.

Head Coach Jordan Ferrell on the team's first clean sheet of the season:

Yeah it's important. We've been leaking goals. Even in the last game against OC we gave up a bad one. I think tonight even though they had shots, I don't think they were dangerous, which is a big positive for us. Look at the way we started and to get here tonight.

On why the team struggled to create as many chances as games past:

After two weeks off, it's hard to say you are in a rhythm. I think there were a couple of moments when it all settled, and that's just going to come from games. We have a run of quite a few games coming, and I think we will be able to find a rhythm. I think we created some pretty good ones late on that could have been, but I also knew they were really dangerous on the counter attack. We wanted to balance being expansive and opening the game up with what could punish us.

Any message for the Oakland fans who could not be here tonight.

We are all disappointed we could not kick off at home with them. I think we missed their energy tonight for sure, but we plan to be back on July 10th in front of them and put on a good performance.

Goalkeeper Zeus de la Paz on the first clean sheet:

Nothing better than a clean sheet. That's what you want as a goalkeeper; you just don't want to concede goals. We wanted to win games too, but we didn't score unfortunately.

On the need for getting a run of games:

That's the main thing that we miss. We need to get games, get games in our legs, and need to play together because you can only do so much in training. Game after game, if we get that feeling, it will be better for us.

Oakland Roots SC vs Austin Bold FC

USL Championship | June 26, 2021

Venue: Las Positas College, Livermore, California

Kickoff: 7:30 p.m. PT

Weather: 78 degrees

SCORELINE: 1 2 FT

OAK 0 0 0

ATX 0 0 0

DISCIPLINE SUMMARY:

ATX: Ycaza (Yellow 8')

OAK : Klimenta (Yellow 25')

OAK: O'Connor-Ward (Yellow 29')

OAK: Mbumba (Yellow 41')

OAK: Enríquez (Yellow 63')

ATX: Okoli (Yellow 64')

OAKLAND ROOTS LINEUP: Zeus De La Paz, Ariel Mbumba (Jeremy Bokila 60'), Soya Takahashi (Tarn Weir 90+1'), Max Ornstil (Kai Greene 61'), Tarek Morad, Matias Fissore, Lindo Mfeka, Jesus Enriquez, Akeem O'Connor-Ward (Memo Diaz 84'), Emrah Klimenta, Danny Flores

Unused Substitutes: Wal Fall, Saalih Muhammed, Taylor Bailey

Shots: 3 | Shots On Goal: 1 | Corner Kicks: 0 | Fouls: 17 | Offside: 4 |

AUSTIN BOLD LINEUP: Elliot Panicco, Nick Hinds, Fabien Garcia, Gustavo Rissi, Amobi Okugo, Xavi Baez, Emilio Ycaza (Collin Fernandez 57'), Owayne Gordon, Ates Diouf (JJ Johnson 79'), Stefano Pinho (Juan Pablo Torres 72'), Ugo Okoli

Unused Substitutes: Hugo Fauroux, Casey Walls, Josue Soto, Gilbert Fuentes

Shots: 16 | Shots On Goal: 6 | Corner Kicks: 5 | Fouls: 9 | Offside: 3 |

OFFICIALS:

Referee: Joseph Salinas,

Assistant Referee 1: Stephen McGonagle

Assistant Referee 2: Justin Fillmore

4th Official: Devlin Creighton

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