Sat June 18, 2016 League 1 Ontario--Masters Futbol vs Oakville Blue Devils (from League 1 Ontario website)

Oakville Jumps To Fourth In The West With 3-1 Win Over Masters
06/20/2016, 1:45pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

Masters FA Saints and Oakville Blue Devils met in a cross-division clash 
at L'Amoreaux, and despite Masters taking the early lead through 
Allando Matheson (39'), a dismissal to Masters' GK Ljubevski and 
a twelve minute hat-trick from Oakville's Felipe Vilela (66', 68', 78') 
guaranteed the Blue Devils all three points.

With his three goals on the night, Vilela - the 2015 Golden Boot 
winner - moves to seven goals on the season, two behind the 
current leader Leaford Allen of Sigma.

"We missed a lot of chances in the first half, and when you don't 
score you get scored on," he said. "In the second half we came out 
the Oakville Blue Devil way, and got the goals."

"I felt very confident and comfortable out there tonight, 
and it was good to help the team in that way."

A focused start from both sides resulted in Matheson and 
Oakville's Robertson going close on chances inside the first 
half hour, but it would be Matheson to open the scoring just 
before the half-time break. A quick through ball in behind left 
Matheson with an opening at near post and he slammed the finish 
under Oakville GK Karman Saini.

However, just after the break Matheson would need to exit 
the match with injury, and tides began to turn in favour 
of Oakville. 

A penalty call just after the half-hour mark led to Vilela's 
opener, and the dismissal of Masters' GK Ljubevski, 
to be replaced by Danny Grant. 

Vilela quickly tested Grant, and was rewarded when he found 
space in behind the keeper to chip him and get his second 
of the match only two minutes later. 

After a strong opening frame, Masters were suddenly with 
their backs against the walls. Vilela latched on to a tidy 
ball in from the right flank with just over ten minutes 
remaining, redirecting his third of the night and 
a match winner. 

"It's nice to see Felipe get on the score sheet because 
I think he's been playing great this season, probably better 
than last season but he just hasn't been getting the goals," 
said Oakville head coach, Duncan Wilde. "Hopefully that's 
a nice stepping stone for him."

Masters are back to the pitch quickly this week with 
a June 21 (6:30 p.m.) L1 Cup second round match-up with 
Toronto Skillz at L'Amoreaux. 

Oakville has more time to prepare, next lining out 
to face North Toronto Nitros on June 26 (3 p.m.) 
at Sheridan College, Oakville. 

With the result, Oakville is now in fourth position 
on eleven points - two behind Windsor Stars, but with 
one less match played. 

"We came looking for three points because we are looking 
to get our season going a little bit better than we've 
been doing," said Wilde. "At this point, results are 
very important so that we can keep in touch with the 
leaders that are doing really well."

"We made some changes at half-time and completely 
changed the system, went with a second striker, 
and concentrated on moving the ball quicker and keeping 
it on the ground," he added. "We needed some good fortune 
and the penalty got us back in. I don't think we looked 
back from there."

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