Sacramento Republic FC got off to a very fast start, scoring through Kieran Phillips in the 5th minute of play to take an early 1-0 lead over the Oakland Roots SC on Sunday, July 21, at CSU East Bay’s Pioneer Stadium in Hayward.
The visitors doubled down in the 27th minute when Shane Wiedt scored to double the lead. Nick Ross then made the lead nearly impossible to overcome just before the break, as Sacramento went into halftime with a 3-0 lead.
Oakland Roots coach Gavin Glinton made some halftime changes to try and flip the script, but to Oakland’s detriment, they conceded right off the bat in the second half, when Kieran Phillips scored a brace to make the game 4-0.
The Roots were able to pull a couple back when Johnny Rodriguez scored in the 55th and 71st minutes to make it 4-2. But Trevor Amann put the icing on the cake for Sacramento as he scored their fifth, ending all hopes of a Roots comeback.
Oakland heads to Miami next Saturday night for an East Coast trip.
Talking with the Head Coach
With 10 goals allowed in the past two games, Roots’ Head Coach Gavin Glinton was asked what he thought had gone wrong.
“Just nowhere near an acceptable level of effort, to be honest, in both games, unacceptable,” Coach Glinton said. “It’s embarrassing, the lack of effort and commitment. Today, not even close. You know, it’s a derby, and it looked like one team realized it, and one team didn’t realize it until maybe halftime. Just hasn’t been anywhere near close to acceptable in terms of effort, commitment, attention, all the things that we’ve been focusing on over the last 12 weeks.”
Asked what his message to the team was, the coach replied. “It’s not starting over from scratch, but it is definitely re-breaking down, because I think we’ve got ahead of ourselves and started to think that we don’t have to do some of the things that got us here. …So, it’s going to be breaking that back down and making sure that we dig into the details.”
Summary
Scoring:
- SAC: Phillips 5’
- SAC: Wiedt 27’
- SAC: Ross 45’
- SAC: Phillips 46’
- OAK: Rodriguez 55’,
- OAK: Rodriguez 71’
- SAC: Amann 85’
Discipline:
- OAK: Rodriguez (yellow) 31’
- SAC: Weidt (yellow) 32’
- SAC: Luis Felipe (yellow) 39’
- OAK: Riley (yellow) 53’,
- OAK: Gomez (yellow) 73’
- SAC: Sanchez (yellow) 73’
- SAC: Ricketts (yellow) 90’
Oakland Roots SC
Lineup: Timothy Syrel, Justin Rasmussen, Neveal Hackshaw, Camden Riley, Memo Diaz (Bryan Tamacas), Napo Matsoso (Gagi Margvelashvili), Daniel Gomez, Trayvone Reid (Baboucarr Nije), Lindo Mfeka (Miche-Naider Chéry), Jeciel Cedeño (Dom Dwyer), Johnny Rodriguez
Unused subs: Irakoze Donasiyano, Paul Blanchette
Line: Shots: 6 | Shots On Goal: 4 | Corner Kicks: 0 | Fouls: 16 | Offside: 1
Sacramento Republic FC
Lineup: Daniel Vitiello, Jack Gurr (Rafael Jauregui), Damia Viader Masdeu (Aldair Sanchez), Lee Desmond, Jared Timmer, Shane Wiedt, Cristian Parano Rasguido (Jonathan Ricketts), Nicholas Ross, Justin Portillo (Da’vian Kimbrough) Luis Felipe Rodriguez, Kieran Phillips (Trevor Amann)
Unused subs: Jared Mazzola, Conor Donovan
Line: Shots: 12 | Shots On Goal: 6 | Corner Kicks: 2 | Fouls: 24 | Offside: 3
