April 19, 2025...Highlights: Atletico Ottawa 3-2 York United C - 2025 Match #9 (from canpl.ca)
HIGHLIGHTS: Atlético Ottawa 3-2 York United FC — 2025 Match #9
2025-04-19
by Benedict Rhodes, CanPL.ca Contributor (@BTFR17)
Atlético Ottawa won an instant classic at TD Place on Saturday afternoon, beating York United 3-2 thanks to Noah Abatneh’s
game-winning strike with one of the last kicks of the game.
The hosts spent a lot of the first ten minutes on the front foot, but it was the Nine Stripes who opened the scoring early
on the road. After running onto a long diagonal pass from Elijah Adekugbe, Max Ferrari took a touch to beat his defender
before floating a cross into the penalty area. Julian Altobelli dived to get his head on the ball, redirecting it past
Nathan Ingham to give his side the lead in the eleventh minute.
It was Altobelli’s third goal already on the season, through just three weeks after also scoring a brace in his CPL debut
against Vancouver in matchweek one.
The game was back-and-forth as Ottawa opened up even more following the goal being conceded, as the two sides took turns
running at each other, neither able to to assert much dominance.
York nearly doubled their lead with ten minutes left in the opening half, firing several shots at Ingham in quick succession
but failing to convert any of them. Gabriel Bitar hit the target first, before Riley Ferrazzo’s attempt on the rebound hit
the woodwork. Altobelli swung his foot at the second rebound, but it was blocked and the hosts charged the other way
up the pitch.
Altobelli had another attempt moments later but skied a volley from close range when he might have had time to take a touch
first. At the other end of the pitch, Iker Moreno had a shot blocked as well in the 38th minute, a few minutes before
Gabriel Antinoro had a shot stopped by York goalkeeper Diego Urtiaga, who was making his Canadian Premier League debut.
The score remained 1-0 to the visitors after 45 minutes, despite several chances for both sides to add to Altobelli’s
early opener.
Loïc Cloutier came agonizingly to tying the game moments after play resumed. Juan Castro fired a cross into a crowded York
Sam Salter did get the home side on the scoresheet a couple of minutes later, though. Antinoro raced to the goal line to keep
penalty area, where Cloutier met it at the back post. He redirected a low shot back across goal in the direction it came
from, but it dribbled inches wide of the far post. the ball in play, then cut in from the left side and played a low ball into
the box, which eventually fell to Salter. The Ottawa striker turned and scooped the ball over Urtiaga to knot things up
at a goal apiece with most of the second half remaining.
Ottawa wasn’t done there, though. Manny Aparicio gave his side the lead five minutes after Salter’s goal with a perfectly
struck shot from distance following a free kick that sailed into the top left corner of Urtiaga’s net. In the blink of an eye
Ottawa were in front, and for the second match in a row York quickly squandered the lead they took into halftime.
The momentum swung in Ottawa’s favour after the first goal of the half, but after Aparicio’s in particular they started
to dominate possession and
It seemed like Atlético Ottawa was destined for the three points until Riley Ferrazzo found the back of the net in the
unlikeliest of circumstances to rescue a point for the visitors. He tried to fire a cross into the penalty area but mishit
it, and it sailed right into the top right corner of Ingham’s net, off the post and in.
The goal deflated the energy inside TD Place as the home players and fans were equally stunned by it, but they immediately
got back to work to try and regain their lead.
They almost got that late go-ahead goal when Cloutier got his head on a corner kick, but his redirected effort went over
the crossbar. Both sides had young stars come inches away from winning the game in the final moments, before one finally
did. David Rodriguez rounded the goalkeeper before sending his shot into the side netting, moments before Shola Jimoh
smashed a shot off the upright at the other end of the pitch.
Finally, with one of the last kicks of the game, Noah Abatneh won it for Ottawa against his former side, smashing a shot
into the bottom right corner following a set piece to win the game 3-2. His first goal for the capital city club was the
one that secured three massive points to keep them unbeaten at 2-1-0 on the season and move them, at least temporarily,
to the top of the CPL table.
BOX SCORE
Lineups
Atlético Ottawa:
Ingham;
Abatneh, Didic, Cloutier;
Moreno (Sissoko 76'), Castro, Aparicio (Zapater 76'), Antinoro (Dos Santos 64');
Rodriguez, Salter (Patterson 71'), Tabla (Ortega 76')
York United:
Urtiaga;
Singh (Voytsekhovskyy 76'), Higgins, Leon;
Ferrari, Adekugbe (Zeppieri 76'), Yeates, Ferrazzo;
Reid (Kibato 58'), Altobelli, Bitar (Jimoh 58')
Goals
11' — Julian Altobelli (York United)
51' — Samuel Salter (Atlético Ottawa)
56' — Manny Aparicio (Atlético Ottawa)
83' — Riley Ferrazzo (York United FC)
90+5' — Noah Abatneh (Atlético Ottawa)
Discipline
2' — Yellow: Oswaldo León (York United)
21' — Yellow: Gabriel Bitar (York United)
31' — Yellow: Noah Abatneh (Atlético Ottawa)
43' — Yellow: David Rodriguez (Atlético Ottawa)
53' — Yellow: Luke Singh (York United)
59' — Yellow: Elijah Adekugbe (York United)
66' — Yellow: Shola Jimoh (York United)
68' — Yellow: Kembo Kibato (York United)
73' — Yellow: Manny Aparicio (Atlético Ottawa)
90+5' — Yellow: Riley Ferrazzo (York United)
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