August 6, 2022 – Canadian Premier League (CPL) – Atletico Ottawa News Release
Sunday in the Canadian Premier League begins in the nation’s capital, as Atlético Ottawa seek a bounce-back performance at home when FC Edmonton come to town for the first time in the CPL.
Ottawa enter this weekend’s contest not quite flying as high as they were a week ago, having been trounced 4-0 at home last Sunday by Forge FC. Prior to that, Atleti had been unbeaten in five straight, and they’d spent time at the top of the league table, but the Week 17 results brought them back down to Earth as Forge, Pacific, and Cavalry all leapfrogged them.
As it stands, Ottawa sit fourth in the standings after 17 games, with an 8-5-4 record and 29 points. The good news is they have two games in hand on third-place Cavalry (who lost to Valour on Wednesday) and they’re just two points back, so they could certainly move back up the table with a result in this contest.
The Eddies, meanwhile, make their first-ever trip to TD Place in the CPL era, having only hosted Atleti this season and last outside of bubbles. Their last outing was a trip to ATCO Field in Calgary, where they fell 2-0 in a hard-fought Wildrose Cup decider against Cavalry. This match will be the fourth of Edmonton’s current six-game road trip, from which they so far have just one point (a draw in Halifax with the Wanderers).
In the league table, Edmonton remain at the bottom with 18 games played. Their record is 2-5-11 with 11 points, six back of York United for the next rung in the ladder.
The better news for Alan Koch and the Eddies is that some of their best performances of the year have come against Atlético Ottawa. Their first meeting at Clarke Stadium was a narrow 2-1 win for Ottawa, but their next contest in mid-June was Edmonton’s first win of the 2022 season, as Bicou Bissainthe scored the lone goal in a 1-0 victory for FCE.
“I feel like we could’ve beaten them both times we played them at home,” Edmonton head coach Koch said. “But playing them at their place is a whole different game. We know it’s not gonna be easy. But like we do every game – I think people see this, I get a lot of comments from people and it’s who we have to be – we’re going to work incredibly hard.”
These two clubs haven’t met many times in their history – the first was a 2-2 draw at the Island Games in which Edmonton came back from two goals down – but Atleti have the slight upper hand, with three wins from six meetings.
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