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“Oh … I don’t know,” he said. “I’m just going to relax, recharge the legs, just take some time off from everything for a little bit and then get back at it probably in a week or so.”

Dalglish will no doubt spend part of the break dwelling on what he said later was his first ejection ever as a coach. Angered by a tackle by a Rayo OKC player just outside the 18-yard box, the Fury FC boss directed his venom toward his counterparts on the opposing side and for that was given a red card by fourth official Robert Schaap in the 27th minute.

The infraction will be reviewed by the NASL disciplinary committee, but at the very least Dalglish will be suspended for that July 2 contest at New York.

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“I got a little bit emotional after that (tackle), but, as I said, it’s stupid for me to react like that,” Dalglish said. “All apologies. I shouldn’t act like that.”

With assistant coach Martin Nash in charge, Fury FC continued to play hard, but it took a long time to erase the early deficit resulting from Svantesson’s goal, the byproduct of an error by de Guzman on a back pass from Kyle Porter.

The start was the first for de Guzman with Fury FC since April 30 because of his own thigh injury and an international assignment with the national men’s squad. He had entered Wednesday’s Amway Canadian Championship semifinal leg against the Vancouver Whitecaps as a second-half substitute.

He had been expected to play about 60 minutes before yielding to a substitute, but pushed on because others had to go off first and was only replaced in the 89th minute by Dario Conte.