Fri August 12, 2016 League 1 Ontario--Durham United FA vs Pro Stars FC (from League 1 Ontario website)

Moncrieffe Brace Guides Durham Past Pro Stars 
08/13/2016, 5:15pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

Durham United FA took down Pro Stars FC 4-2 on Friday night after goals 
from Joseph Roccasalva (9'), Christian Moncrieffe (29', 49') 
and Mark Tarazhi (90').

"I think the biggest thing today was that we didn't let off in the 
second half," said Durham head coach, Sanford Carabin. "Our motto all 
year is to work harder than the other team and I think tonight we did. 
I think that pushed us through." 

Pro Stars Briam Lopez (7') and Mann Slewa (64') finished for Pro Stars, 
but the young side from Brampton couldn't make up the difference. 

"I thought in the first half we did very very well," said Pro Stars 
assistant coach, Stiven Mikhail. "I thought the penalty shots were 
a little unfortunate. I think the game at best should have been tie. 
I thought we played really well and it was just unfortunate mistakes 
that cost us."

Durham featured several new players, and struggled initially to find 
fluency against a pacey and well-organized Pro Stars team. 

"We had to change a few things at the end," said Carabin. "We had 
four players on the field tonight that haven't played much for us, 
two brand new players. They took a while to understand how we wanted 
to play but they trained with us all week and they did their job."

"Credit to Pro Stars, they're a young team - they don't stop. 
I told the guys that at half-fime too, 2-1 up is a dodgy game and 
can go either way."

"The last game we had we were missing our defensive players and 
so we were missing our press," said Mikhail. 

"We tried that this game and slowly we are getting better and 
better at it."

Now four points off the top of the east division leaders 
Vaughan Azzurri, and with Woodbridge Strikers in between 
in second place, Durham face a stern end of season test to their 
aspirations of the east division title.

"It's going to be hard," said Carabin.

"We've got to get back on the roll, this spell recently was the 
first time that we lost two in a row and we've got to get back 
to winning ways."

"This was a good start and hopefully we carry that through 
to next week." 

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