Just over a week ago, Fury FC seemed to have the set the tone for its season with an impressive win over Minnesota United FC.

Since then, Fury has dropped two-straight, one of which being a heartbreaking 3-1 loss to Edmonton in the first leg of the Amway Canadian Championship. The streak isn't sitting well with anyone, but just four games into the NASL season, nobody is panicking.

What they are doing, however, is trying to figure out why they aren't scoring. Including Fury's most recent defeat, a 3-1 decision against Fort Lauderdale at TD Place and the Amway game, the club has yet to score more than one goal in a match.

That's not so bad if the club can play the way it did to shut down Minnesota, but when Fury has given up the equalizer or gone down in a game, they haven't been able to climb back into it. Still, you have to think the ball is going to start going in for Fure more frequently sooner or later. They certainly haven't been lacking for chances.

"There is a bit of concern with finishing, but it would be a bigger concern if we didn't have any chances to score goals," said midfielder Sinisa Ubiparipovic "We're getting plenty of chances in each game, we just have to make sure on the last (touch) that everybody is focused to put the ball in the back of the net."

Most frustrating to the coaches, players and those that follow the team about Fury's current 1-2-2 record in all matches and eighth position on the league table is that they have played well enough to win, or at least draw, in at least four of those five games. Not to mention a couple very questionable calls that sealed Fury's fate and most recently resulted in head coach Marc Dos Santos receiving a one-game ban for his protests following the Edmonton game. He'll travel to Edmonton but has to maintain his distance on match day because of the red card.

The coach is also focusing on the number of chances as a positive, but the team is "shooting (itself) in the foot" by not converting those opportunities.

"Our frustration is knowing that we could have scored more," said Dos Santos. "We get in a lot of good areas, we get a lot of shots at goal and it goes wide or it hits the cross bar or they save it."

What Dos Santos is not planning to do is overreact to the back-to-back losses by completely changing his starting lineup for Wednesday's game, though there will be some changes. The back line of Ryan Richter, Rafael Alves, Colin Falvey and Mike Randolph seemed tired for the first on Saturday, and it's likely either Mason Trafford or Drew Beckie, or both, will draw into the lineup.

"We need to improve, we know that," said the coach. "(But) It doesn't mean you're going to make changes and suddenly you don't concede goals."

As for trailing Edmonton 3-1 going into the second leg Wednesday night, Ubiparipovic said the team has to go into the game believing it can win and then worry about the goal differential.

"They have a tremendous advantage, of course, but we're going in a bit more relaxed with the (plan) to fight back and score a couple goals and perhaps find ourselves in a situation to fight and get through (to the semi-finals.)"

After Edmonton, Fury's schedule doesn't get any easier. The club faces the league-leading Cosmos next weekend and the second-place Tampa Bay Rowdies after that.

WALKING WOUNDED IMPROVING

The injury picture is improving for Fury FC.

Without Richie Ryan for all but a few minutes of the spring season, Fury coach Marc Dos Santos said Monday the captain is getting close to resuming training, though don't expect to see him before the Tampa Bay game.

"We need him to come back, the team needs Richie Ryan on the field," said Dos Santos.

The bigger surprise has been the progress made by swing man Phil Davies, who shatered his arm in a pre-season game, requiring surgery. While he won't play in the spring season, he's taking part in portions of team training and should be fit to star the fall season.

"It's going faster than we thought," Dos Santos said of Davies' recovery.

Defender/midfielder Brandon Poltronieri is also set to return after sitting out Saturday's game with an injury.

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