BRANTFORD GALAXY RECOVER FROM 2-0 HALF-TIME DEFICIT TO WIN 4-2 WEDNESDAY

Brantford Galaxy came from a 2-0 half-time deficit to defeat St. Catharines Wolves 4-2 at Club Roma in St. Catharines, the only game played in the Canadian Soccer League Wednesday night.

 

It was a remarkable collapse by the home side which looked at the interval very much in a position of winning its first home game of the season and first game since defeating London City 2-1 on June 3.

 

St. Catharines midfielder Matthew Cain opened the scoring for the Garden City team with a goal at the 37^th minute mark and Matthew Contino made it 2-0 at 41 minutes on a penalty awarded by referee Justin Tasev. The penalty followed a hand ball infringement by Galaxy defender Stanko Karacic — it was 2-0 at half-time.

 

Galaxy forward Dalibor Mitrovic accounted for the first of four second half goals by the visitors, he struck with a drive from 25 yards at 49 minutes.

 

 St. Catharines suffered a set-back when 10 minutes later they were down to 10 men when defender Joe Conte was shown the red card by referee Tasev for Serious Foul Play.

 

Brantford’s Kyle Grooteboer intercepted a St. Catharines pass to beat goalkeeper Claudio Perri to tie the score 2-2 at 73 minutes, Mitovic scored his second goal to make it 3-2 in favour of the Galaxy at 80 minutes and Ranko Golijanin sealed the win for Brantford when he scored from the penalty spot, a 4-2 final score. The penalty was awarded when the home side’s Matthew Waddington brought down Golijanin in the box.

 

It was the Galaxy’s eighth win of the season for 22 points from 17 games to put the current CSL champions on the edge of a playoff position and the win repeats a victory by Brantford over St. Catharines Wolves on July 17, a 5-3 score at Lions Park.