Ottawa Furu FC 0 – 2 Toronto FC
By Luis Martinez (Twitter @canadaluis)
Ottawa, ON – After 90 minutes, Toronto FC got a very favorable result over the Ottawa Fury at TD Place Stadium.
Very early, Drew Moor puts his team up with a golazo from the penalty area.
With determination, the Vanney Boys were more dominant with the ball possession, they created more opportunities which was overall still well maintained by a great performance from the Fury goalkeeper, Clint Irving, influencing a halt to a possible massacre on the Black and Reds house.
The Capital team had a few chances to score in the 90 minutes without success, but they demonstrated to be on a very good level diffusing the progress of Toronto FC and with some bad luck like the Tsubasa Endoh goal at the very the end to converts the board to 2 – 0 in favor of Toronto.
Nikola Popovic seems confident to equalize the numbers in the second leg of semi at BMO Field, he doesn’t show any sign of insecurity inside the press room.
For his part, Greg Vanney will keep focus on the mission to find a solid and proper style for the group in every competition where he needs to combine players from the first team and the homegrown guys.
At the same time, the Montreal Impact defeated 2-1 Calvlary in their first appearance against the Alberta team.
With this result, it is possible to have once again an intense final between TFC and MIFC refueling the hard rivalry in this Canadian Derby.
Match stats
Lineup
Fury: Irving; Gagnon-Laparé (61’ Tissot), Barnathan, Meilleur-Giguère, Haworth ©; Fall, Ward, Mannella (75’ De Freitas); Barry, Oliveira, François
TFC: Bono; Morgan (46’ Shaffelburg), Moor, Zavaleta; Morrow, Fraser, Delgado (59’ Osorio), Laryea; Benezet (71’ Gallardo), Endoh; Mullins
Shots: Fury 6 – TFC 11
Shots on target: Fury 2 – TFC 4
Possession: Fury 59% – TFC 41%
Fouls: Fury 12 – TFC 15
Yellow cards: Fury 1 – TFC 3
Offsides: Fury 3 – TFC 0
Corners: Fury 3 – TFC 6
