June 1, 2024 – United Soccer League Championship (USL)
Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC News Release
Colorado Springs, CO – The Colorado Springs Switchbacks secured another win against Oakland Roots SC ending with the final score of 1-0.
The Switchbacks started strong, with #4 Delentz Pierre making his debut for the Switchbacks and immediately making an impact. In the 2′ #10 Zach Zandi found the opportunity to pick up the ball and passed it up the field. Pierre made the touch from beyond 25 yards to score in the left top corner of the net. Pierre’s goal marks the fastest goal for the Switchbacks this season in the USL Championship.
In the first half, the Switchbacks had 81.5% passing accuracy with 173 total passes, enabling them to stay strong and keeping Oakland from finding the back of the net going into half-time. A second-half notable moment in the 73′ saw #1 Christian Herrera with a finger-tip save over the top left side of the net off a free kick. Herrera’s save solidified the score and helped him receive his fourth clean sheet of the season.
With six minutes of stoppage time, the Switchbacks were able to keep Oakland from scoring with the final score of 1-0 Colorado Springs.
The Switchbacks will be on the road for next week’s game as they play on June 8th against Memphis 901 FC. Mark your calendars for June 15th as the Switchbacks play at Weidner Field for a Father’s Day Celebration as they take on Orange County SC! For tickets to that match, and all others, head HERE.
Post Match Quotes:
James Chambers
Overall thoughts:
“It wasn’t a great performance for us, off a bye week is difficult, and Oakland, I think they were by far the superior team tonight, but we won the game. So I think we’ve shown huge growth to win that game tonight, not performing at the level we need to perform at. (Herrera mentioned it as a character win). I think it was different from the Rhode Island win, we gave up a lot of the ball and we don’t really want to do that in the building, and Oakland honestly I thought were really good. First half they caused us a lot of problems, we solved them more at halftime, and then I think second half they had a couple of opportunities, more balls in the box, versus penetrating and cutting us open, which they did in the first half – so to come out in the second half and do that, yeah I’m really happy for them.”
On the Delentz Pierre goal:
“I saw him hit one yesterday in training and he wouldn’t shut up about it, so that’s why he fancied…