Sat July 23, 2016 League 1 Ontario--Sigma FC vs Woodbridge Strikers (from League 1 Ontario website)

  
East Division Leaders' Woodbridge Take Down West Division Leaders Sigma FC 
07/24/2016, 2:30pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

East division leaders Woodbridge Strikers were successful in their 
road trip to Mississauga on Saturday, downing west division leaders 
Sigma FC 3-0 after goals from Tristan Watson (51'), 
Dylan Carriero (81') and Andrew Alonzi (90 + 6').

Keeper Matt George claimed his fourth clean sheet of the season.

Coming off a 1-0 home loss to Pro Stars last week, Woodbridge 
was looking for a better performance.

"Definitely the last game was really a poor game, we didn't 
play well at all, so we worked on keeping our shape a bit better 
and looking for increased intensity today," said Woodbridge 
head coach, Peter Pinizzotto. 

"The main thing today was our shape was good, the discipline 
was good, we shifted well as a team. I would say today was one 
of our best performances all season."

Pinizzotto was pleased to see his players return to winning 
ways, indicating that a psychological shift was needed. 

"My advice to the boys after the last match was to take 
every opponent as though they are in first place," he said. 
"I told the boys that we still have a chance to finish first 
in the league but if we start dropping more points than 
we can start saying goodbye to the season."

"They know as well that we have a rule that we never lose 
two games in a row, and so far this season we have kept 
to that rule."

On the other hand, Sigma's nine match unbeaten streak 
to start the season has been derailed by a spell of losses 
and draws. The Mississauga based academy has only taken 
one win from the six previous matches. 

"It was tough in the heat today, but both teams were 
playing in it," said Sigma captain, Nolan Holdridge. 
"There were a couple mistakes that we had that led 
to their goals, but if we had built a bit better, 
and taken our chances in the final third, it could 
have come our way."

Sigma has had recent turnover in their squad, with 
key players like Chris Nanco and Alex Halis departing 
and some of the academy's younger prospects 
coming through.  

"Losing players [Chris] Nanco and [Alex] Halis - it's 
hard to fill the shoes of guys like that, but we have 
a good talent pool here at Sigma and I believe the 
boys who have been called up deserve to be there," 
said Holdridge. 

"They have the qualities that the coaching staff 
are looking for and I think they can take care 
of the job."

"Today we did a good job of closing down in the 
middle, but we needed to do a better job of exploiting 
where they gave it to us and today we had a little 
bit of space on the wing," he added. "We found 
ourselves with some good one v ones on the line, 
and we just needed to get the final product and 
service to get it in the back of the net."

"We're just lacking a little of the end result 
right now," he concluded.

"We have a week off between this and next game 
so hopefully we can pull it together and start 
to hit form again." 

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