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FC Edmonton are currently sitting fourth in the CPL Fall Competition standings with a win, loss and two ties through their first four games in the second half of the split-season format.

Edmonton scored four goals through those four games and will make a change up front with local striker Easton Ongaro making his first start in an effort to get the offence on track.

Ongaro scored his first professional goal Saturday in the tie against Forge, who are currently tied with Cavalry FC for top spot in the Fall standings.

“I think some players just have a gift for scoring,” Paulus said. “I think some players have a tendency to frustrate you for 88 minutes and then score one. They do this game in and game out and that’s why they’re driving Ferraris.

“I think there is a born gift around goal for some players, but I think you also work on it. You work on it with your movement off the ball, with your ability to roll off a defender and to give yourself half a yard to get your shot off and these are things that we can work with these player to give them a better chance to score goals.”

Striker Oumar Diouck leads FC Edmonton with four goals this season. He had a number of good opportunities against Forge, but was unable to convert.

Ongaro was brought on for striker Tomi Ameobi with 20 minutes left in the contest and went on to score the tying goal late in the contest heading in a ball off a cross from centre back Amer Didic.

“That final third is something we’ve been working on all season, but we’ve been focusing on it a lot more over the past six weeks,” Ameobi said. “You see it in training, guys are banging in goals left, right and centre and it’s just continuing to believe in ourselves on game day and take that over into our game.