TORONTO — Atletico Ottawa defeated HFX Wanderers 3\u002D1 Wednesday for its first\u002Dever Canadian Championship win, rallying from an early 1\u002D0 deficit.
CF Montreal and Forge FC won their preliminary-round matches at home Tuesday with Montreal blanking Vaughan SC 2-0 and Forge dispatching FC Laval 3-0.
Malcolm Shaw and Diego Espejo scored four minutes apart late in the first half for Ottawa and captain Maxim Tissot added a late insurance goal to dispatch Halifax. Massimo Ferrin scored on a beautiful free kick for Halifax, which finished six places and 20 points below Ottawa in 2022. Venne made his presence felt early, yellow-carding a Vancouver player for interfering with a York throw-in.Article contentYork goalkeeper Niko Giantsopoulos made a marvellous fingertip save to deny Shaan Hundal late in the first half. And Vancouver substitute Gabriel Bitar hammered a shot from well outside the penalty box off the crossbar in the 50th minute.
“We had 65 per cent possession ⦠but obviously the game is decided by goals,” he added. “We’ve got to do a better job when we get a lead.” Ferrin curled a free kick from just outside the penalty box over the Ottawa wall and past goalkeeper Nathan Ingham, who got a hand to it but could not stop it.
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