Sat August 6, 2016 League 1 Ontario--Master's Futbol vs North Mississauga Panthers (from League 1 Ontario website)

North Miss Keeps It Melo With 8-2 Win Over Masters
08/07/2016, 4:30pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

League1 west division All-Star Jose Melo (40', 66', 85') led the way with 
three goals for North Mississauga Panthers en route to an 8-2 win over 
hosts Master's FA Saints on Saturday.

Lee-Victor Massunda (7'), Jordan Montoya (37') and Melo put the away 
side up 3-0 by the half-time break.

"We dominated the first half, missed four chances, and then they came 
down and scored twice on us," said Masters' technical director, 
Junior Groves. "How does that work? But, it happens."

"I'm tired of the excuses, now we're getting the personnel together, 
which is good, but some key personnel today couldn't make it back 
from their commitment to a Red Cross camp and so we ran into a problem 
again today at our centre-back position," he explained. 

"It is looking much better though on the field, but we just have 
this problem where we build, attack, don't score, and then the other 
team comes down and scores and then our player's heads drop. 
I can understand the psychology of football, and we will fix it."

Panthers Jose De Sousa (48') and Bradley Fenton (58') added 
to the misery for Masters, before an own goal on the hour mark 
added salt to the wound.

Melo's second half brace completed an eight goal haul for 
North Miss on the night, but Masters kept plugging away, scoring 
two second half markers through Isaiah Page (76') 
and Tyrell Rayne (90').

"The boys know how good they are, they know they are not 
five nil different, or six nil different, so they are going 
to play," said Groves. "It's just that we can't get the ball 
in the back of the net."

"Man to man we win the game, but we just can't seem to score 
and sometimes that's football when we're developing and 
building and we have some young players out there," he concluded.

"All in all, we actually looked better as a team. The score 
doesn't show it again but we looked better as a team 
so I'm pleased."  

North Mississauga head coach Rick Titus was unavailable for interview.

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