{"id":13497,"date":"2012-07-09T01:24:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T05:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=13497"},"modified":"2012-07-09T01:25:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T05:25:45","slug":"fury-win-battle-for-first-against-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=13497","title":{"rendered":"Fury Win Battle for First against Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the battle between the top two teams in the USL PDL Northeast Division, the Ottawa Fury came out on top in impressive fashion, defeating the GPS Portland Phoenix, 4-1, in front of 202 at the Algonquin College Soccer Complex in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>The win vaults the Fury (9-3-2, 29 points) over the Phoenix (9-4-1, 28 points) and into first place.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Basso opened the scoring for the Fury in just the 12th minute. Basso received a pass inside the box from Will Beauge on the left flank and took a touch away from goal before sending a shot past Portland \u2018keeper Ciaran Nugent to the far post to put the Fury up 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels great [to take first]\u201d, Basso told <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawafury.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Fury TV<\/a><\/span>. \u201cComing out of the weekend with six points is always a positive. It really showed the depth of the squad this weekend, being able to use every player. You\u2019re not going to win division titles if you don\u2019t have depth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just three minutes later Jason Massie would equalize for Portland off a free kick. From about 30 yards Massie curled a free kick over the wall and inside the near post to knot the score at 1-1 with his third goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Closing in on halftime, the Fury would retake the lead and this time wouldn\u2019t give it back. After Basso was tripped up entering the box by Neil Harries, earning a penalty kick, the striker stepped up to the spot and sent Nugent the wrong way for his second goal of the night and seventh goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes into the second half Beauge made it 3-1. After stealing the ball from Harries, Beauge ran in on goal and finished past Nugent for his eighth goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The home side would finish off the scoring in the 71st minute. The Phoenix failed to clear a Fury free kick, eventually leading to Marcello Castro sending a pass back to Edward Campbell at the top of the box. Campbell blasted a shot into the upper corner for his fourth goal of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa, needing just one point from their final two games to clinch a playoff spot, plays CFC Azul at the Algonquin College Soccer Complex on Friday, July 13, at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix, needing just two points from their final two games to clinch a playoff berth, travels to Portsmouth High School to face the Seacoast United Phantoms on Thursday, July 12, at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IwKHfLzSNQY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>(Highlights Courtesy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawafury.com\/fm-index\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Fury<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa storms into first place with crushing 4-1 victory over Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[88,84],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13499,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions\/13499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}