TOP TEAMS IN ACTION THIS CANADA DAY WEEKEND
While CSC Mississauga have yet to open their account with a win in the CSL First Division, a close look at the expansion team’s games played to date shows four of the five games have conceded just 2 goals, one against a tough Serbian White Eagles on June 1 and one against a similarly strong Scarborough SC on June 24. Games against Real Mississauga and Brantford Galaxy ended scoreless.
In the other game against the Brantford Galaxy on June 9, CSC Mississauga went down, 3-0 for a total of just five goals allowed in the five games played so far this season.
CSC Mississauga opens the holiday weekend with a match against Scarborough SC on Friday night, not an easy proposition for the CSL’s most recent entry, but any team with an average one goal per game conceded suggests better things to come as the season moves along. Friday’s match is at the Iceland Field for a 9 pm kickoff.
There are two additional CSL First Division games over the coming long weekend, both on Saturday when FC Ukraine United travels for an encounter with SC Waterloo at RIM Park, Waterloo, that’s a 6.30 pm evening kickoff. And at 7 pm, league-leading FC Vorkuta hosts Serbian White Eagles at Esther Shiner Stadium in North York at 7, which means the top four teams in the CSL First Division table will be in action in an otherwise brief schedule during the first two days of the Canada Day holiday weekend.
The success of FC Ukraine United, presently second in the standings, with an impressive runner-up finish in the CSL First Division in its 2016 inaugural year followed by winning the Second Division in 2017, can be expected to continue, which makes for a good contest with SC Waterloo on Saturday when the Southwestern Ontario team will attempt to get back on track following three successive defeats during June.
FC Vorkuta vs Serbian White Eagles is a return match following the 1-1 draw on May 25 at Centennial Stadium, an entertaining affair which could have gone either way. These two teams are unbeaten and while Vorkuta has an impressive five victories in their six games played and 7 points up on Serbian Eagles, the outcome of Saturday’s clash is still unpredictable and the match at the Esther Shiner ground will be well worth watching.
