Thurs July 7, 2016 League 1 Ontario--Sigma FC vs Master's Futbol (from League 1 Ontario website)

  
Sigma FC Rallies For Six Over Masters FA Saints
07/08/2016, 4:45pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

Coming off two successive league losses - the only points dropped by the 
Misssissauga-based academy all season - Sigma FC returned to winning 
ways on Thursday night after a comprehensive 6-0 win over 
Master's FA Saints. 

"It all worked out the way we wanted to," said Sigma head coach, 
Bobby Smyrniotis. "We had two tough matches the week before this, 
where things really weren’t clicking and we didn't have much speed 
to our game. And today we put the responsibility on the players for 
that and I think they showed up and did a great job."

Nolan Holdridge (6'), Justin Stoddart (21'), Kwame Awuah (33') and 
Marcel Zajac (36') put the home side ahead by four going into the 
half-time break, before league leading scorer Leaford Allen (56', 68') 
added a brace in the second half to ensure the result. Sigma's clean 
sheet was earned by Joseph Kuta

"Individually we have some fantastic players here who are going to play 
at the next level," said Smyrniotis. "But sometimes it's one guy waiting 
on the other guy to perform and today we asked for a performance amongst 
the group."

"That’s very important to us," he added. "We don't look for goals 
from one place and tonight they did a great job of that." 

"Allen has also done a great job providing us with 11 goals, but the 
biggest thing to our strength is that we share the load. And its 
always good when you can score a lot of goals in the game and its 
coming from a number of different guys. It brings up their confidence 
and its going to give us great momentum against Durham on Saturday."

With only a single win and a draw from eleven matches, Masters head 
coach Andre Savelev observed a dangerous lack of belief in his 
players after giving up early goals. 

"One of the things that happened to us is that when we missed the 
first chance and then the second chance its almost like 'here is the 
story again, the other team is going to score,'" he said.  "And so, 
you lose your belief. You could see it in the players. Once we lost 
the first two you could see the players thinking 'when are they 
going to score?.' That will kill you in football."

With a big L1 Cup semi-final around the corner for Masters, Savelev 
said attentions were certainly divided between their league matches 
and the Cup competition. 

"They know our plan is prepping for the Cup," he confirmed. "So we’ll 
have our players back thankfully. But we have to be in the mode 
of setting ourselves up to be successful."

"Tonight we set ourselves up in the second half to be successful," 
he concluded. "But we gave away the first half."

"We aren’t ignoring TFC Sunday, but we are looking forward to the Cup."

Master plays Toronto FC Academy on Sunday July 10 (1 p.m.) 
at Kia Training Grounds, before meeting Vaughan Azzurri in the semi-finals 
of the L1 Cup on Wednesday July 13 (8 p.m.) at the Ontario Soccer Centre. 

Still top of the west division and first overall across both men's 
divisions, Sigma FC head into a difficult league fixture 
on Saturday July 9 (4 p.m.) at Hershey Centre, Mississauga against 
Durham United FA - the third place team in the east division.  

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