Sun August 14, 2016 League 1 Ontario--Oakville Blue Devils vs Aurora United FA (from League 1 Ontario website)

Last Minute Heroics From Oakville Snatch A 3-3 Draw With Aurora
08/15/2016, 4:30pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

Oakville Blue Devils stormed back from a 3-1 deficit to draw Aurora United FC 3-3 
at Sheridan College, Oakville on Sunday. 

"I think we got a little too comfortable and complacency set in and we were 
unlucky to concede two goals in the final minutes of the game today," 
said Aurora head coach, Jimmy Brennan. 

"I thought the boys played ever so well. We played good football but at the
end of the day it is about finishing teams off."

Aurora's Simon Adjei (41', 58', 83') put away a hat-trick to give Aurora 
a bright start, but Oakville made adjustments and found joy from 
Blake Jones (69'), Macca Wilde (90 + 1') and Filipe Vilela (90 + 3') finishes.

"The overall game performance for us, from my perspective, was disappointing 
after how well we battled and fought for a point last week against Woodbridge," 
said Oakville head coach, Duncan Wilde.

"We came out today and put out a poor performance. It was pretty much the 
same team named with one change due to injury," he continued. 

"We're still depleted overall, but only one change from the team the week 
before, and I expected us to kick on but we didn't. We had two excellent 
chances in the first half but missed them, which has been the story 
of our season. Meanwhile we gave up a goal to the only shot they took 
in the first half." 

"We had a third system of play change on the day and we played very well 
for the final fifteen minutes but I still can't figure out why we can't 
play that way for ninety minutes," he concluded. 

Both teams moved into the latter season with some new personnel, bringing 
through promising youth prospects. 

"We're going to have a lot of young guys from our club coming through, 
they've already been up training with us and we're starting to give them 
a taste of what League1 is all about," said Brennan. "They've been doing 
a great job those ones that have been coming up."

"We've not got the core of our team," said Wilde. "We've had the same 
core week in and week out, but the core of our team is not here."

"Captain Taylor McNamara is not here, our keeper Karman has been away 
on trials in Europe and only returned last night, Anthony Novak remains 
injured, Al James remains injured, and Chris Mitchell remains injured 
- that's five of my starting eleven that are not here. I've had 
a consistent core, but it is not my core choice team."

"In turn, where we get our support - our U21 team - has been depleted 
to the man to university teams, so we are now using fringe players from 
both the U21 and the Blue Devils groups."

"We did give three more League1 debuts today, and that is what 
t is all about, and we took a point. That is what this season is about 
this year, we take a point and be as respectable as we can at the 
end of the day."

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