AN IMPROVING SCARBOROUGH LOOK TO UPSET VORKUTA SUNDAY
Three teams, Vorkuta, Serbian White Eagles and York Region Shooters, fought a late season battle for First Division honors in 2017, a battle eventually won by Vorkuta with just two points separating the top three clubs. Scarborough finished a distant fourth.
It’s a different mix at the top now, with FC Ukraine United entering the picture and Scarborough looking more like a team determined to be a serious contender for at least one of the First Division and playoff championship titles. The top four all have exceptional defensive records of conceding less than a goal per game and while it’s early days to draw any conclusions or forecasts for season end, Scarborough’s Aleksander Stojiljkovic, the league’s top goal scorer in 2017, is leading the way yet again and likely to play an important role in the east Toronto side’s bid to gain a CSL title since entering the league in 2015.
Scarborough will be determined to upset at Birchmount Stadium this weekend, a home encounter with FC Vorkuta, the only undefeated side in the CSL’s top division.
Vorkuta entered the CSL in 2017 under the technical influence of Ukrainian-born Serhiy Zayets with playing experience going back to top Soviet soccer, including FC Dynamo Kyiv in the late eighties. The team has marched on impressively ever since and as one observer put it recently: ‘Who is going to stop them winning both the First Division and the Championship’.
Scarborough SC vs FC Vorkuta at Birchmount Stadium on Sunday will kickoff at 8 pm.
In other First Division games this weekend, Real Mississauga are at home on Friday to Hamilton City at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, an 8.30 pm start, CSC Mississauga will host FC Ukraine United at Iceland Field, that’s a 9 pm kickoff, and on Saturday, Serbian White Eagles travel to RIM Park in Waterloo for a clash with SC Waterloo, a 6.30 pm kickoff.
There is only one game in Second division is on Sunday, Milton SC B are at home to FC Vorkuta B for a morning kickoff at the Milton Sports Centre, that’s at 11.30 am.
