{"id":31915,"date":"2022-09-15T13:20:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=31915"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:20:37","slug":"york-united-catching-steam-take-down-fc-edmonton-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/york-united-catching-steam-take-down-fc-edmonton-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"York United catching steam, take down FC Edmonton 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Molham Babouli\u2019s brace and Osaze De Rosario\u2019s early second half goal proved to be the difference as York United blew FC Edmonton away with a stellar 3-1 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In back-to-back 3-1 victories, York United now remain seven points away from the final playoff spot with four matches left in league play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a stunning turn of events this year, everything had been favoured against The Nine Stripes as results were hard to come by and goals were few and far in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, Martin Nash\u2019s men have risen up to the occasion and have left hope in the hearts of this club and its fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a change in culture within the group. I can see a winning mentality especially since the second half of the season. The first half, yeah, defensively we were probably a bit better actually conceding less. But, something about the group now, we\u2019re reacting really well going down the goal or conceding. We\u2019re bouncing back,\u201d said central defender Tass Mourdoukoutas, a native of Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know we can beat any team in this league. It goes without saying. We\u2019ve defeated Cavalry not long ago at their grounds. Last time we got a clean sheet, a few more would be nice as a defender I\u2019m not happy about that, but at the same time, we\u2019ve beaten Forge at their grounds. We\u2019ve beat the top sides. We have two more home games in the next two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In just the 13th<\/sup> minute of the match, York got off the ground running. A lovely cross from Chrisnovic N\u2019Sa found the head of Babouli, who thundered the ball in for his third goal in just his fourth start for the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second half, it was Babouli who sprung free Noah Verhoeven in the 48th<\/sup> minute towards goal. Verhoeven teed up Osaze De Rosario who ripped-it bottom corner to give York a two-goal advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After conceding just six minutes later to Courtney Smith, Babouli stepped up to the penalty spot in the 71st<\/sup> minute to put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought we were quite comfortable first half. We had a good half, could have scored a couple. We had a couple of half-chances that you\u2019d like to see one of them go in. I thought we started the second half really well, got the goal and then I felt kind of relaxed, a little bit. That was frustrating a bit, they scored and it woke us back up,\u201d said head coach Martin Nash in the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the acquisition of Babouli, Nash said the transaction was completed in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce we found out he was available (Babouli), we did it in a day. We knew we wanted him that bad. He was the type of player we needed. He has the type of personality we needed in this group. I think he\u2019s been fantastic from Day One. Shown up here and he\u2019s been a big difference in the team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next four games will not be a walk in the park for the Nine Stripes. The daunting task will begin as United take on the HFX Wanderers at home tomorrow night. Kick-off is at 7.30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
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Molham Babouli\u2019s brace and Osaze De Rosario\u2019s early second half goal proved to be the difference as York United blew FC Edmonton away with a stellar 3-1 victory. In back-to-back 3-1 victories, York United now remain seven points away from the final playoff spot with four matches left in league play. In a stunning turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-8iL","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 06:59:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}