TULSA – After last weekend’s 2-0 victory over Oklahoma Wesleyan University opened the 2020 preseason, FC Tulsa will play its second preseason match against Saint Louis FC on Sunday, February 16. The club will host its former Western Conference foe as Tulsa continues to get tuned up for the 2020 USL Championship season.
How to Follow
The match won't be streamed but fans can follow @FCTulsa on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for live updates throughout the match.
Scouting Saint Louis FC
Saint Louis FC finished 11th in the 2019 USL Championship Eastern Conference table, narrowly missing out on a playoff spot. Head Coach Anthony Pulis departed the club for Inter Miami CF after two seasons at the helm, and Steve Trittschuh took over this January after four seasons with Colorado Springs Switchbacks. This will be Saint Louis FC’s third preseason match, having beaten Memphis 901 FC 2-1 last Saturday and come up short 0-1 against Indy Eleven on Wednesday.
Storylines to Watch
First time against USL Championship competition
Sunday’s match will be the first time FC Tulsa takes on a USL Championship squad in 2020. This match is the first of three USL opponents on the preseason schedule, as its followed by matches against 2019 USL League One Champions North Texas SC and USL Championship Eastern Conference club Sporting Kansas City II.
Familiar Foes
FC Tulsa’s match against Saint Louis FC will not be the first time these two have faced off. This is the eleventh match between the two sides, dating back to the two clubs’s inaugural USL Championship seasons in 2015. Saint Louis FC has spent two of its previous five seasons in the Western Conference, in 2016 and 2018. FC Tulsa’s Matt Sheldon played for Saint Louis FC in the 2017 USL Championship season before moving to Tulsa in 2019.
First look at First team
Last weekend’s match against Oklahoma Wesleyan saw 23 players take the pitch over the 90 minutes, with FC Tulsa Head Coach Michael Nsien testing the waters on how the 2020 squad would play together. He said after the match that Sunday’s squad will begin to look like the starting XI that will take the field in the regular season.
“We have been overloading the sessions so now we can be put into a normal routine like the season,” he said following the 2-0 victory on Saturday. “So, we will recover from the match, go hard early in the week and then taper down so we can start to make selections and see which guys we identify for our first eleven.”
Season ticket members are invited out to Titan Sports Complex to watch the match, which kicks off at 2 p.m. Fans can purchase season tickets by heading to www.fctulsa.com/Tickets.
TULSA – After last weekend’s 2-0 victory over Oklahoma Wesleyan University opened the 2020 preseason, FC Tulsa will play its second preseason match against Saint Louis FC on Sunday, February 16. The club will host its former Western Conference foe as Tulsa continues to get tuned up for the 2020 USL Championship season.
How to Follow
The match won’t be streamed but fans can follow @FCTulsa on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for live updates throughout the match.
Scouting Saint Louis FC
Saint Louis FC finished 11th in the 2019 USL Championship Eastern Conference table, narrowly missing out on a playoff spot. Head Coach Anthony Pulis departed the club for Inter Miami CF after two seasons at the helm, and Steve Trittschuh took over this January after four seasons with Colorado Springs Switchbacks. This will be Saint Louis FC’s third preseason match, having beaten Memphis 901 FC 2-1 last Saturday and come up short 0-1 against Indy Eleven on Wednesday.
Storylines to Watch
First time against USL Championship competition
Sunday’s match will be the first time FC Tulsa takes on a USL Championship squad in 2020. This match is the first of three USL opponents on the preseason schedule, as its followed by matches against 2019 USL League One Champions North Texas SC and USL Championship Eastern Conference club Sporting Kansas City II.
Familiar Foes
FC Tulsa’s match against Saint Louis FC will not be the first time these two have faced off. This is the eleventh match between the two sides, dating back to the two clubs’s inaugural USL Championship seasons in 2015. Saint Louis FC has spent two of its previous five seasons in the Western Conference, in 2016 and 2018. FC Tulsa’s Matt Sheldon played for Saint Louis FC in the 2017 USL Championship season before moving to Tulsa in 2019.
First look at First team
Last weekend’s match against Oklahoma Wesleyan saw 23 players take the pitch over the 90 minutes, with FC Tulsa Head Coach Michael Nsien testing the waters on how the 2020 squad would play together. He said after the match that Sunday’s squad will begin to look like the starting XI that will take the field in the regular season.
“We have been overloading the sessions so now we can be put into a normal routine like the season,” he said following the 2-0 victory on Saturday. “So, we will recover from the match, go hard early in the week and then taper down so we can start to make selections and see which guys we identify for our first eleven.”
Season ticket members are invited out to Titan Sports Complex to watch the match, which kicks off at 2 p.m. Fans can purchase season tickets by heading to www.fctulsa.com/Tickets.
