Twelve months have gone by since Serbian White Eagles lost a regular season league game, a 1-0 defeat by York Region Shooters on June 5, 2022 just prior to a storming four victories that led to a CSL league title win for the Toronto area club. The 2022 success continued at the Mattamy Sports Park Saturday with a 2-1 victory over Toronto Falcons, to follow two regular season league wins while retaining the top position in the standings.
In the two other games of the three played on Saturday, Hamilton City rallied from a 1-0 deficit at the interval to score twice in the second half to defeat Ooty Black Pearl FC, while in the late game Scarborough defeated Weston United, 3-0.
Marko Stajic struck the winner for Serbian White Eagles just before the final whistle, his fourth goal of the season, following a goal by Srdjan Simovic at the 49th minute. Defender Pavlo Shulhan struck for Toronto Falcons.
Oyedele Luqman put Ooty Black Pearl into the lead at 44 minutes in the second match, with Hamilton City midfielder Vukasin Kovacavic equalizing at 54 minutes and Luka Korac scoring the Hamilton winner at the 61st minute mark.
Scarborough, the CSL Championship finalist in 2022, CSL champions in 2021, unbeaten in three so far this early season and the only team not having conceded a goal, held an edge most of the third game against expansion team Weston United.
Scarborough forward Gonzalo Matias found the net past Weston goalkeeper Vinicius Pinto de Carvalho at 15 minutes for a 1-0 lead at the break. Midfielder Mohamed El Sabahy made it 2-0 at 64 minutes and striker Jaime Grandona completed the scoring for the Toronto east side club, a 3-0 victory at the final whistle.
There will be three games at the Mattamy Sports Park on Saturday, June 17, with Weston United FC the home side against Ooty Black Pearl FC, a 2 pm kickoff, it is Toronto Falcons vs Dynamo Toronto FC in the second game with a 4 pm start and Hamilton City will meet Serbian White Eagles at 6.
