Two goals by midfielder Dmytro Polyuhanych gave FC Vorkuta a 4-2 come-from-behind victory over expansion team Kingsman FC, SC Waterloo gained a second victory in as many games by defeating Hamilton City 4-0, and in a third match in the Canadian Soccer League Saturday night, Serbian White Eagles opened their season with a 4-2 away victory over Brantford Galaxy.
Vorkuta took a 1-0 lead at 26 minutes at the Ontario Soccer Centre when striker Mykola Temniuk picked up a loose ball to score from six yards. The score stood for just three minutes when Kingsman’s Valerii Yarmosh beat two defenders in a solo effort to find the open net and Yarmosh struck a second goal for Kingsman at 31 minutes, a picture goal from a volley just inside the box. It was 2-1 for Kingsman at the break.
Each team had a player ejected following a second caution for both players in the second half. F Vorkuta’s Mykola Temniuk was shown a second yellow card and this was followed by Kingsman midfielder Stanislav Katana also being sent off.
Vorkuta, the defending CSL champions, took control as the second half progressed and substitute Dmytro Polyuhanych headed in the equalizer from a rebound off Kingsman goalkeeper Hryhorii Krasovskyi, a 2-2 score at 82 minutes.
Midfielder Ihor Melnyk put Vorkuta into a 3-2 lead at 93 minutes, finding the net from a cross by Vadym Gostiev and Dmytro Polyuhanych made it 4-2 for the home side at 95 minutes, just before the final whistle.
Midfielder Aleksander Milovanovic opened the scoring for SC Waterloo at the 8th minute mark at the Heritage Field in Hamilton and Miodrag Kovacevic scored the first of his two goals at 40 minutes to give the visitors a 2-0 lead over Hamilton City at the interval.
Kovacevic struck his second goal at 75 minutes, defender Gregor Zugelj completed the scoring at 87 minutes and it was 4-0 at the final whistle.
It was Waterloo’s second 4-0 victory following the same result in the season opener over CSC Mississauga at the Hershey Centre Sunday.
Borjan Samardzija put home side Brantford Galaxy into the lead at 8 minutes against Serbian White Eagles at the Heritage Field and Milos Scepanovic of Serbian Eagles beat Galaxy goalkeeper Georgi Jovicic to tie the score 1-1 four minutes later.
Samardzija made it 2-1 for Brantford at the 42nd mark and Scepanovic scored an equalizer for the visitors one minute later, it was 2-2 at the break.
Zoran Pesic put Serbian White Eagles 3-2 up five minutes into the second half and Vladimir Strizovic completed the scoring for the visitors at 60 minutes, 4-2 at the final whistle.
There is one game in the CSL Sunday when Scarborough SC host CSC Mississauga at Birchmount Stadium, that’s an 8 pm kickoff.