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San Antonio FC Sets Club Scoring Record in 7-0 Win at Charleston Battery

May 13, 2023 - United Soccer League Championship (USL)
San Antonio FC News Release


CHARLESTON, S.C. - San Antonio FC set a new club record for goals scored tonight in a 7-0 win at Charleston Battery, led by Tani Oluwaseyi's three goals and two assists in his first start with SAFC. San Antonio moves to 5-1-4 on the season with a league-leading 19 points.

For the second consecutive match, Samuel Adeniran started the scoring within the first 10 minutes. Adeniran volleyed a ball from Oluwaseyi for his second goal of the year to put the team ahead 1-0.

Then in the 20th minute, Fabien Garcia scored his first goal of the season to make it 2-0 by heading a rebound home. In the 26th minute, Oluwaseyi scored his first goal of the night on a corner kick to make it 3-0 within the first half hour.

Oluwaseyi would be right back for another goal in the 32nd minute, scoring from a Niko Hansen through ball. The 4-0 halftime lead set a club record for goals scored in a single half.

In the second half, Oluwaseyi struck again in the 53rd minute on and assist by Shannon Gomez to make it a 5-0 SAFC lead.

The final 10 minutes of the match belonged to Ignacio Bailone, as the Argentine forward tallied a brace in just nine minutes to make it a 7-0 final. Bailone's goal in the 80th minute was assisted by Oluwaseyi, and his strike in the 89th was courtesy of Rida Zouhir's first assist with San Antonio FC.

The seven goals set a club record, and are tied for the fifth-most in USL Championship history.

Next Up

San Antonio FC finishes a stretch of three-straight road matches, heading north to take on Detroit City FC. Kickoff from Keyworth Stadium is set for 6:30 p.m. CT, and will be streamed on ESPN+.

Postgame Notes:

San Antonio FC moves to 5-1-4 with 19 points on the season.

San Antonio's seven goals are the most in a match in club history, and the fifth-most in league history.

SAFC is unbeaten (44-0-7) in the last 51 matches when the team scores first.

Forward Tani Oluwaseyi finished the night with three goals and two assists, just the third hat trick in SAFC history and first since 2021.

Oluwaseyi finished with two assists on the night, joining Connor Maloney as the only SAFC player to tally two assists in one match this season.

Oluwaseyi's three goals bring his season total to four, leading the team.

Oluwaseyi has scored four goals with SAFC in just 120 minutes played this season, averaging a goal every 30 minutes.

Adeniran scored within the first 10 minutes of the second consecutive match.

Adeniran's goal was his 14th with SAFC, moving him into a tie for the third-most in team history.

Defender Fabien Garcia's goal was his first of the season, and first since last season's opening match.

Forward Niko Hansen's assist on Oluwaseyi's goal was his first of the season.

The four first half goals by SAFC are a club record for the most scores in a single half.

Defender Shannon Gomez's assist on Oluwaseyi's goal in the 53rd minute was his first of the season.

Oluwaseyi earned his first start with SAFC, after scoring the match-winner last week at Las Vegas.

Defender Mitchell Taintor appeared with SAFC for the first time since April 1, missing the last five matches with a lower body injury.

Midfielder Juan Carlos Azocar earned his first start with SAFC, after missing the previous nine matches for personal reasons.

Midfielder Rida Zouhir made his SAFC debut, entering as a substitute in the 76nd minute and assisting on Bailone's goal in the 89th minute.

Statistics

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Game highlights, interviews and photos can be found here.

Quotes:

Head Coach Alen Marcina

(On the win...)

"We knew coming into Charleston, it was going to be a very difficult match. The leaders of the Eastern Conference. We know they were up for the occasion. They were in first place, are in first place, for a reason. So I challenged the guys from a mindset standpoint, to be mentality monsters, and if we were able to sustain that over the course of 90 minutes. And sure enough the guys rose to the occasion, earned the three points, and demonstrated the mentality that we need to have each and every game moving forward."

(On the offensive explosion after a slow scoring stretch...)

"First and foremost we believe in all our players. There's belief in the locker room, of themselves and of their teammates, and there should be. And we said you've got to continue to trust the process, continue to do the right things as our guys have been doing, and they got rewarded tonight."

(On keeping the momentum moving forward...)

"Again what we reinforced in the postgame talk was about the mentality we brought today. That everybody had. Everybody demonstrated the monster mentality, and we have to maintain that, keep improving from that aspect and only good things can happen from that."

(On Tani Oluwaseyi's night...)

"He had a tremendous performance, game-changing speed. Put away his chances, he was a constant threat with his vertical runs beyond the opponents last lines. It's what we ask of our strikers, and he executed the tasks as good as it gets. So I'm proud of him, and I'm proud of the collective."

Forward Tani Oluwaseyi

(On the win...)

"More than anything, to be honest, I think that we've had coming off of last week, we had a really intense week of training and you know there were some expectations of us tonight and the biggest thing was just working hard, committing, just leaving 110% out on the field and I think that's exactly what we did. Couldn't be happier for the guys, every single person who played tonight played their butts off. Put their hearts in every tackle, every pass, everything. So it was just incredible overall."

(On keeping the momentum moving forward...)

"I think it's one of those things where you've just got to take it day by day. The one thing Alen always says to us is that even if we're in training and we're missing shots and things like that, he always says it's not about not the quality - it's not that we don't have the quality it's just a matter of focus so I think today especially everybody was focused. When we were in front of the goal, we were focused we were aggressive, we really had the killer instinct going today and it paid off."

(On such a strong start with SAFC...)

"Oh man I think as a striker it's incredible to always get goals. That's what we're on the field for, ... that's our goal as part of the team. So you know, it was a good just to do whatever I could to get us over the line and that's everything I want to do. Sometimes it might not be goals, but when it's goals it feels a lot better."

Defender Mitchell Taintor

(On the win...)

"Unbelievable performance, amazing goals. First I want to give a shoutout to Nacho [Bailone], he's worked so incredibly hard all year and hasn't gotten the goals so today to see him get two was amazing. He's deserved it, he got the service and put it away I'm super proud of him, super happy for him. And another big shoutout to Azocar, he's been out for a while - he's been an unbelievable teammate and unbelievable player, and he was a huge reason why we won tonight so congratulations to him as well."

(On the team trusting the process...)

"First of all, I did an interview after the first Las Vegas game at home, and I told the reporters that when it rains it pours for the strikers. So it wasn't happening for them in the first part of the season, but it rained tonight and it damn well poured. So it'd obviously about being positive, we've had two back to back results now and it's about staying level headed, enjoy the night, enjoy the victory, Charleston's a great team so for us to put in that performance in against a good team like that is really good for morale."

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