Sun August 14, 2016 League 1 Ontario--North Toronto Nitros vs Sanjaxx Lions (from League 1 Ontario website)

Sanjaxx Give Up Lead To Nitros In 3-1 Result
08/15/2016, 5:45pm EDT
By League1 Ontario staff

Sanjaxx Lions dropped a first half lead over North Toronto as the Nitros stormed 
back in the second to win 3-1 after goals from Jayden Doyle (62'), 
Killian Elkinson (90 + 3') and Faisal Al-Hamden (50').

Hilliard Serrao (23') had the Lions up within a half hour, but then the tides 
turned in the next 45 minutes as Sanjaxx lost keeper Matt Zaikos to a dismissal, 
and the Nitros built off the ensuing penalty.

"I think the key to the second half – I mean we were winning one nil 
– was we felt comfortable with that," said Sanjaxx head coach, Peter Mellon. 

"In the second half we came out and we adopted the same game plan and a couple 
of key incidents just determined the way outcome happened. Having a goalkeeper 
sent off and giving away a silly cross, which is a schoolboy error and 
it lead to them getting the penalty and coming back. There’s nothing 
we could've done about that."

North Toronto had a new look on the day, and took some time working out 
the kinks in the fresh look.

"We had a lot of players and call-ups which made it a bit disjointed," 
said North Toronto assistant coach, Gary Fleming. "But you know we sorted 
it out in the second half."

"I felt like we were better in the first half and created a lot of chances 
and we just didn’t have one player who could put the ball in the back 
of the net. But then we gave up, what I thought was a weak goal, and then 
we came out in the second half and took all of our chances."

Sanjaxx's Mellon was particularly frustrated at his team's defensive 
errors after working extensively on this phase of play in training. 

"We work on a lot of different things in training and staying compact 
is one of them," said Mellon. "My philosophy is if you can keep a tight 
line in the back and be disciplined, which they were in the first half, 
then it helps and we can only look at the end result at the end 
of the day."

"We are now 3-1 down and we were 1-nil up and I think we lost that 
discipline in the second half and it lead to three goals basically."

After 15 matches, North Toronto is in fourth position in the east 
division with 27 points. 

Sanjaxx is seventh in the west division with nine points from 13 matches. 

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