July 25, 2014 League 1 Ontario--Durham United FC vs Kingston Cataraqui Clippers (from League 1 Ontario)

  
Durham United FC 4 - Kingston Cataraqui Clippers 1
. Tue Jul 29 
Written By: Rollins, Duane  

It was truly a case of a tale of two halves Friday in Pickering as Durham United overcame a 1-0 score 
line at half to defeat Kingston 4-1.

Kingston could have had a much greater lead going into the break. The visitors pestered Durham keeper 
Eugene Alves with several point blank shots, but he had a phenomenal game to keep Durham in.

It was primarily a height advantage that Kingston utilized in the first half to gain the territorial 
advantage. Cross after cross was causing all kinds of difficulty in the Durham box.

It was one such cross that gave the visitors the lead in the twenty-sixth minute. Maxime El-Asmar drove 
the ball deep down the Durham left flank. From the baseline, he crossed into traffic. Durham couldn't 
control and it fell to a wide-open Dylan Kirk on the penalty spot. Alves had no chance.  

That would be all the scoring for the half, with Alves coming up with several great saves.

The second half started well for Kingston. However, as the old adage says, goals change games and 
that's exactly what happened in the fifty-ninth minute. 

A harmless ball into the box caused all sorts of confusion. Two Kingston defenders stood flat-footed 
as La Shaun Young split the defence to fire from close range to draw the game even.

Kingston unraveled with players being heard to loudly argue with one another and with the referee. 
Having controlled the game up until then, it was a startling turn about.

The winning goal came in the sixty-sixth minute. Once again it was a defensive breakdown that allowed 
David James to sweep in to collect a rebound off a fairly harmless shot and to tap it home. Kingston 
seemingly stopped playing to allow the play to develop.

The bleeding continued. James had his second when he collected a ball that had initially deflected 
off a Kingston defender, and put it in the top corner from eighteen yards.

The final goal came in the eighty-sixth, when Martinho Dumevski showed a nice bit of pace to get 
behind the defensive line and chip past the charging keeper. 

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