Injury-time goal gives United win over lowly FC London
LONDON – A goal in second-half injury time lifted Guelph United to a 4-3 victory over FC London in League1 Ontario Men’s Premier soccer play Saturday night at London’s Tricar Field.
Owen McKee connected for the winner for the locals to prevent FC London from rallying for a tie in a game they had trailed by two 15 minutes into the second half.
Guelph United 4 FC London 3
United had led 2-1 at halftime after also scoring in first-half injury time.
FC London had opened the scoring in the eighth minute before Anthony Ostrun pulled United even in the 18th minute.
Jared Agyemang followed with the first of two consecutive goals when he headed a shot home in first-half injury time.
Agyemang’s second goal came nine minutes into the second half with a nifty deke before firing the shot into the net.
FC London’s comeback started seven minutes later with a goal on a long shot into the top right corner and they knotted the score with a penalty-kick goal in the 81st minute.
Jonathan Kam, Kuhle Bekwayo and Samuel Barrowcliffe scored the goals for FC London.
Svyatoslav Artemenko picked up the win in net for United while Jaron Slopinski was in net for FC London.
The win lifts United into a tie for fourth in the 22-team league with a 12-4-3 record and 39 points. Vaughan Azzurri (14-0-3) leads at 45 and is followed by ProStars FC (13-5-1, 40) of Brampton, North Toronto Nitros (12-2-4, 40) and Alliance United FC (11-2-6, 39) of Toronto. Blue Devils FC (11-2-5, 38) are sixth while the Simcoe County Rovers (11-3-4, 37) are seventh.
FC London is 22nd at 2-14-3.
United, who’ve won six of their past seven games, have two games left on their regular-season schedule. They can finish anywhere from second to seventh.
Of the top seven, Azzurri has four games to play while the Nitros, Blue Devils and Rovers each have three and United, ProStars and Alliance each have two.
The Guelph side is to play BVB IA Waterloo (7-11-1, 22) at Warrior Field in Waterloo Tuesday at 8 p.m. and host Darby FC (4-10-4, 16) at Alumni Stadium Friday at 8 p.m.
- Guelph Sports Journal
Injury-time goal gives United win over lowly FC London
LONDON – A goal in second-half injury time lifted Guelph United to a 4-3 victory over FC London in League1 Ontario Men’s Premier soccer play Saturday night at London’s Tricar Field.
Owen McKee connected for the winner for the locals to prevent FC London from rallying for a tie in a game they had trailed by two 15 minutes into the second half.
Guelph United 4
FC London 3
United had led 2-1 at halftime after also scoring in first-half injury time.
FC London had opened the scoring in the eighth minute before Anthony Ostrun pulled United even in the 18th minute.
Jared Agyemang followed with the first of two consecutive goals when he headed a shot home in first-half injury time.
Agyemang’s second goal came nine minutes into the second half with a nifty deke before firing the shot into the net.
FC London’s comeback started seven minutes later with a goal on a long shot into the top right corner and they knotted the score with a penalty-kick goal in the 81st minute.
Jonathan Kam, Kuhle Bekwayo and Samuel Barrowcliffe scored the goals for FC London.
Svyatoslav Artemenko picked up the win in net for United while Jaron Slopinski was in net for FC London.
The win lifts United into a tie for fourth in the 22-team league with a 12-4-3 record and 39 points. Vaughan Azzurri (14-0-3) leads at 45 and is followed by ProStars FC (13-5-1, 40) of Brampton, North Toronto Nitros (12-2-4, 40) and Alliance United FC (11-2-6, 39) of Toronto. Blue Devils FC (11-2-5, 38) are sixth while the Simcoe County Rovers (11-3-4, 37) are seventh.
FC London is 22nd at 2-14-3.
United, who’ve won six of their past seven games, have two games left on their regular-season schedule. They can finish anywhere from second to seventh.
Of the top seven, Azzurri has four games to play while the Nitros, Blue Devils and Rovers each have three and United, ProStars and Alliance each have two.
The Guelph side is to play BVB IA Waterloo (7-11-1, 22) at Warrior Field in Waterloo Tuesday at 8 p.m. and host Darby FC (4-10-4, 16) at Alumni Stadium Friday at 8 p.m.
- Guelph Sports Journal