Roots Lose 3-1 to El Paso Locomotive in Texas

The Oakland Roots suffered a 3-1 defeat to El Paso Locomotive FC on Wednesday, October 1, at Southwest University Park in Texas.

El Paso opened the scoring early, with Amando Moreno slotting home a cross in the first minute to give the home side a 1-0 lead. The hosts then doubled their lead within five minutes, as a deflected shot off the foot of Eric Calvillo found the back of the net to make it 2-0 in favor of El Paso.

Oakland did begin to find their footing after the slow start, but the score remained 2-0 at halftime.

The Roots came out after the half with two changes, bringing in Danny Trejo and Danny Gomez to try to turn the match, but El Paso extended their lead to 3-0 with a bicycle kick and a second goal from Amando Moreno.

Oakland fought until the end and finally got one goal back in the 90th minute through Peter Wilson, as the game ended 3-1 in favor of El Paso.

The Roots return home to host Hartford Athletic at the Oakland Coliseum on Tuesday, October 7, at 7 p.m.

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Summary

Scoring:

• ELP: Amando Moreno 1’
• ELP: Eric Calvillo 5’
• ELP: Amando Moreno 65’
• OAK: Peter Wilson 90+’

Discipline:

• OAK: Camden Riley 45+’ (yellow card)
• ELP: Beto Avila 64’ (yellow card)
• ELP: Sebastian Mora-Mora 81’ (yellow card)

Oakland Roots SC

Lineup: Camden Riley, Wolfgang Prentice (Faysal Bettache), Peter Wilson, Panos Armenakas, Tyler Gibson, Neveal Hackshaw, Bobosi Byaruhanga (Abdirizak Mohamed), EJ Johnson (Danny Trejo), Morey Doner (Jürgen Damm), Raphael Spiegel, Ali Elmasnaouy (Daniel Gomez)

Unused subs: Kendall Mcintosh, Kai Greene

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

El Paso Locomotive FC

Lineup: Jahmali Waite (Sebastian Mora-Mora), Ricky Ruiz, Tony Alfaro, Kofi Twumasi (Wahab Ackwei), Memo Diaz, Robert Coronado, Eric Calvillo (Emiliano Rodriguez), Gabi Torres, Amando Moreno, Beto Avila (Frank Daroma), Wilmer Cabrera (Christian Sorto)

 Unused subs: Bryan Romero, Kenneth Hoban, Joseluis Villagomez, Omar Mora

 Line: Shots: 8 | Shots On Goal: 5 | Corner Kicks:5 | Fouls: 12 | Offside: 4