May 27, 2017 League 1 Ontario Match Recap: Aurora FC vs Woodbridge Strikers (from League 1 Ontario website)

Match Recap: Aurora FC 0 - 1 Woodbridge Strikers
05/28/2017, 10:00pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

Woodbridge forward Luca Baldassare (41') and keeper Quillan Roberts made sure the Strikers 
left St. Maximillian Kolbe HS in Aurora on Matchweek Five with a 1-0 result over Aurora FC 
and remain the only men's team with a perfect 5-0 record. 

Aurora FC lost midfielder Jackson Tooke to a dismissal in the first half, and despite having 
chances on ten men - and previously some excellent opportunities when at full strength - could not 
find the elusive breakthrough to take hold of the match. 

"I think we absolutely could have had one today in the first half," said Aurora head coach, 
Derek O'Keeffe. 

"It's similar to last week against Masters when we had three or four good chances and I think 
everyone saw today we had the same. If you score one of them, it's a different game. We went 
in at half-time and we were positive about what we were doing but we felt that we would 
get more chances." 

"However, when you lose a man against a team like Woodbridge, your back is always going 
to be against the wall," he added.

"I am very very proud of my players. They gave me everything and they still kept the 
scoreline 1-0. We still kept our discipline. Obviously our attacking momentum had dwindled 
due to the player sent off, but they kept going right to the end. Woodbridge knew they 
had a game there tonight, they really knew they had a game."

Woodbridge Strikers head coach Peter Pinizzotto felt his team were dominant in their 
control of the ball, but that the narrow victory was simply not enough to be tension-free.

"Of course I think we deserved the result," he said. 

"Even in the first half, when they had two or three chances to score, Quillan [Roberts] 
came up big. Aside from that, the counter-attack they were playing to try and catch 
us on our mistakes was dangerous but otherwise we controlled the game."

"We were not able to score goals and these types of games can be very dangerous. You have 
so much possession but it only takes one mistake and they could have tied the game. 
Overall, I don't think the score really reflects how well we moved the ball and how well 
we controlled it." 

"I think our quality simply has to be better in the attacking third," he concluded.  

"If we were better there, we would have had more goals today but I think we did control 
the pace and momentum of the game. I think when you play against teams like this it can 
be difficult to penetrate but with the possession we had we should have come up with 
more than one goal." 

Aurora FC will next play Vaughan Azzurri on Saturday June 3 
at St. Maximillian Kolbe HS, Aurora. 

Woodbridge Strikers will next play OSU Force on Sunday June 4 
at Vaughan Grove, Woodbridge. 

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