May 9, 2022 – Canadian Premier League (CPL) – Atletico Ottawa News Release
2022 Canadian Championship – Preliminary Round
Atlético Ottawa vs. York United FC
May 10, 2022 at 7 p.m. ET
TD Place Stadium in Ottawa, Ontario
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Atlético Ottawa will be looking for their first-ever Canadian Championship win as they host York United in a preliminary round clash on Tuesday night at TD Place Stadium.
Ottawa’s one and only match in the competition to date came last year when they fell 3-2 to Valour FC at home. Austin Ricci, who now plays for York and could be in line for his first start of the season on Tuesday, had a pair of goals for the Winnipeg outfit to end Atleti’s inaugural cup campaign.
Fast forward a year and losses to Valour still loom large in the memory. A lopsided 6-1 drubbing late last month against the Winnipeg outfit kicked off a stretch of three straight winless matches for Ottawa in Canadian Premier League action, heading into this meeting with York.
But while the match will come just three days after a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Pacific, Carlos González and Atleti are already looking to turn the page.
“The reality is that we are looking forward, yesterday we closed the book of the league, and we started to open the book of the [Canadian] Championship,” said González. “I think that we are getting to the point that we want, we have to be proud of a lot of the things that we are improving.”
York, on the other hand, will be full of confidence after shutting out Forge 1-0 on Friday. They haven’t lost since the opening day of the season against Halifax and are now up into second place in the Canadian Premier League.
The Nine Stripes have actually only ever played another Canadian Premier League side once in their two previous runs in this competition, a 3-2 win (over two…
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