UP NEXT: Saturday, March 18 vs Detroit City FC. COS – Romario Williams (Yellow Card) 64’, Drew Skundrich (Yellow Card) 90+2’.ELP – Bence Pavkovics (Yellow Card) 56’, Louis Herrera (Yellow Card) 82’.Subs Not Used: Eder Borelli, Erik McCue, Javier GarciaĬOS – Christian Herrera, Matt Mahoney, Jimmy Ockford, Macauley King, Devon Williams, Patrick Seagrist, Drew Skundrich, Zach Zandi (Duke Lacroix), Jairo Henriquez (Jay Chapman, Dennis Erdman), Romario Williams (Aaron Wheeler), Maalique Foster (Deshane Beckford) COS 2 – Duke Lacroix (Deshane Beckford) 90+3’ĮLP – Benny Diaz, Nick Hinds, Yuma, Bence Pavkovics, Marc Navarro (Miles Lyons), Emmanuel Sonupe (Chris Garcia), Eric Calvillo, Liam Rose, Denys Kostyshyn (Louis Herrera), Aaron Gomez (Luis Solignac), Ricardo Zacarias.COS 1 – Jairo Henriquez (Maalique Foster) 2’.Luis “Lucho” Solignac made his return to the field after missing Locomotive’s season opener, coming on for Aaron Gomez in the final 20 minutes.Ricardo Zacarias opened Locomotive’s scoring account for 2023 with his second-half equalizer.Unfortunately, in what turned out to be one of the final plays of the match, the Switchbacks would capitalize on a turnover in stoppage time to give them the three points. Midfielder Denys Kostyshyn lit up the field yet again, consistently creating scoring opportunities for himself and his teammates whilst big performances from defenders Yuma and Nick Hinds kept out dangerous chances from the Switchbacks. The ball would ricochet off the post and into the net, providing El Paso not only the equalizer, but also its first goal of 2023. Zacarias displayed his attacking composure, calmly controlling the ball outside the 18-yard box to shoot it far into the bottom right corner past the Switchbacks goalkeeper. Just three minutes into the second half, forward Ricardo Zacarias found at his feet a deflected ball from Colorado’s defense. After a difficult first half, Locomotive would come out in the second half ready to battle. We need to be a hard team to beat, and we are when we defend properly.”Īn early Switchbacks goal in the second minute meant that Locomotive were going to have to fight to get a positive result. Some of the chances they got were from our mistakes that we weren’t capitalizing. We just need to be more mature in our play. “I give our players a lot of credit for how they performed in the second half,” Head Coach and Technical Director Brian Clarhaut said about the team’s improvement after the first 45 minutes of play. EL PASO, Texas – Despite a strong second half performance, El Paso Locomotive FC (0-2-0, 0 points, West-10) fell 1-2 to Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC Wednesday night at Southwest University Park.
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