June 18, 2017 League 1 Ontario--Match Recap: Pro Stars vs North Toronto Nitros (from League 1 Ontario)

Match Recap: Pro Stars 0 - 4 North Toronto Nitros
06/18/2017, 9:00pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

North Toronto forward Kyle Laborde (15') continued his run of goal-scoring form by opening the 
Nitros account within a quarter hour against Pro Stars FC, but it was a hat-trick by teammate 
Mirza Custovic (55', 83', 84') that really sealed the deal in the visitors 4-0 result over Pro Stars.  

"One takeaway from today's match is Mirza [Custovic] - we usually play him wide and today we brought 
him into the middle and he scored a hat-trick," said North Toronto team official, Gary Fleming. 

"We're going to be losing Kyle [Laborde] as he is going to Sweden, but with Mirza's play in that 
role today it is still looking good for us." 

An early error gifted North Toronto's Laborde the opener, and Pro Stars head coach Josef Komlodi 
said their gameplan against the opponent just didn't quite pan out in the end.

"We watched the Nitros games before and we knew it is a good team that can move the ball 
quickly," he said. 

"I wanted to keep our team compressed and close up the spaces. In the first half we made 
a mistake and gave away a goal. We stabilized a little bit afterwards but in the second 
half we just became tired and it was an unfortunate result." 

"Later on we put in some of the younger guys in because our primary focus is on developing 
our youth for high level," he added. 

"Our hope is that our older guys can earn the result in the first half and the young guys 
would come in then to really change the game a bit. Unfortunately it didn't work out, 
we were too much in the hole today." 

Mark Rogal got a first clean sheet of the season for the Nitros on a day when everything 
seemed to go their way, but Fleming said the result was not without adversity.

"We knew it was going to be a hard game with the heat, and a grass field as well - we're 
not used to that," he said. 

"We were going to play our game and set up properly defensively, we're always quite solid 
there, and then look for the spaces down the wings, which I'm a bit disappointed that 
we didn't really do." 

"But playing on grass is quite different than the field turf so it takes the players 
almost a half to get used to how the ball moves," he concluded.

"We got there in the end."

Pro Stars FC will next play OSU Force on June 24 at Terry Fox South, Ottawa. 

North Toronto Nitros will next play Oakville Blue Devils on June 25 
at University of Toronto's Varsity Stadium, Toronto. 

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