{"id":785913,"date":"2026-05-10T05:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785913\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T05:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T05:59:15","slug":"pelayos-equalizer-earns-rising-draw-with-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/785913\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelayo\u2019s Equalizer Earns Rising Draw with San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PHOENIX \u2013 <\/strong>Adri\u00e1n Pelayo scored with 10 minutes to go for his first goal in the professional ranks to lift Phoenix Rising FC to a 1-1 draw against San Antonio FC on Saturday night at Phoenix Rising Stadium despite the hosts having been reduced to 10 players late in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts made a bright start to the contest and just past the half-hour mark Jean-Eric Moursou forced a good save from San Antonio\u2019s Joey Batrouni to keep the game scoreless. The game turned in San Antonio\u2019s favor a minute before halftime when Rising\u2019s Charlie Dennis was sent off for serious foul play and SAFC took advantage in first-half stoppage time as an attempted clearance deflected to Emil Cuello, and his pass set up Dmitri Erofeev for a low finish to the left side of the net for his second goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix hit back with 10 minutes to play, however, when Adri\u00e1n Pelayo slotted home a first-time finish from the top of the penalty area after a long throw-in had only been half-cleared by the visitors. Both sides then had chances in stoppage time to grab all three points, with Phoenix\u2019s Gunnar Studenthofft having a header off a long throw-in saves before San Antonio\u2019s Jorge Hernandez had a shot from 20 yards parried away, but honors ended even in the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phoenix Rising FC \u2013 <\/strong>The hosts showed resolve in coming back from a goal down despite Charlie Dennis\u2019 red card late in the first half with Adri\u00e1n Pelayo\u2019s finish superbly taken by the 19-year-old for his first professional goal. Rising didn\u2019t take victory but extended its undefeated streak in league play to four games, its longest of the season so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>San Antonio FC \u2013 <\/strong>The visitors were unable to take advantage of being up a man in the second half, logging only a pair of shots before Rising found its equalizer with 10 minutes to go, and while there were late opportunities to regain the lead they came up empty. SAFC remained on top of the Western Conference but will likely consider this a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2013 Adri\u00e1n Pelayo scored with 10 minutes to go for his first goal in the professional ranks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":785914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,50,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-785913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-sanantonio","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116548755654409974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}