{"id":17665,"date":"2017-06-28T17:16:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17665"},"modified":"2017-06-28T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T21:16:51","slug":"winning-streak-snapped-for-aurora-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/winning-streak-snapped-for-aurora-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning streak snapped for Aurora FC"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Aurora United FC women were brought down to earth on Saturday, conceding a goal for the first time in four matches in a 2 \u2013 1 loss to Vaughan Azzurri.
\nIt took just four minutes for the powerhouse Vaughan squad to find the back of the net, doubling their lead at the 63-minute mark.
\n\u201cOur game plan was to be aggressive and to limit the time they had on the ball because they are a team that will try and dominate the ball,\u201d said head coach Gianni Cimini.
\n\u201cWe were aggressive and we did try to put pressure on them and we ended up having a lot of possession as well. I thought it was an excellent game and overall I was pleased with how the girls followed through on the game plan.\u201d
\nSarah Stratigakis scored Aurora\u2019s only goal with under twenty minutes to go in the match.
\nGoalkeeper Patricia Koutoulas had her streak of three clean sheets broken in the match, though she made a tough save on a penalty kick late in the game to give Aurora a chance.
\n\u201cPatricia has been very good for us this season,\u201d said Cimini. \u201cThe team has full confidence in her and it wasn\u2019t a surprise to me that she could come up in a big moment like that one.\u201d
\nDespite Aurora earning the majority of the chances in the final minutes, time ran out on the game-tying goal.
\n\u201cAt the end we were pushing and pushing and pushing and we had a lot of chances in and around the box, off a cross, corner kick, set-pieces,\u201d said Cimini.
\n\u201cThe girls were striving for it and sometimes an inch this way, an inch that way, and you get a better opportunity. I felt that they really pushed through the whole ninety minutes.\u201d
\nDespite the loss, a recent string of victories has AUFC in the middle of the pack in the League 1 Ontario standings with a record of 3-4-0.
\nThey next face off against Durham United (3-3-1) on the road on Friday.
\nThe men\u2019s squad was also in action Saturday, held to their second straight clean sheet in a 1 \u2013 0 loss to North Mississauga SC.
\n\u201cOur game plan was just to press them a bit higher and take the game to them a bit more than we have been doing in recent games,\u201d said Aurora technical director Dave Di Placido.
\n\u201cIn recent games we have been sitting back a bit more and trying to catch the other teams on the counter. We thought today with the lineup we had and the players we had in there that we could go at them a bit.\u201d
\nMississauga notched the game\u2019s only goal at the 34-minute mark, with a handful of yellow cards going to both sides throughout the match.
\n\u201cBut yes, it was very scrappy,\u201d said Di Placido. \u201cThere were a lot of whistles and dead ball situations. I think we prefer to try and play, keep the game moving a bit and free-flowing, and I think it hurt us a bit having so many stoppages. Especially when down a goal, it killed any momentum we could generate.\u201d
\nAurora will try to regroup on Friday when they visit the winless ProStars FC.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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