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Midfielder Ben Fisk scored the winning goal four minutes into second half injury time to give FC Edmonton the win, which lifted them back into second place in the North American Soccer League Fall Season standings.

With five games to go, Edmonton are well-intrenched in a playoff position with an 11-point cushion. They host the Tampa Bay Rowdies in their penultimate home game of the season Sunday (2 p.m.) at Clarke Stadium.

The stretch of seven games without a win was the longest of the year for FC Edmonton as was the five consecutive games they went without scoring a goal.

But the club figured things would, eventually, turn around for them as one of the best teams in the league.

“You see the way the players train, their attitude is excellent every day, they come to do the work, they know the expectations and the standards that we try and set,” Miller said. “They have brought that for the most part this season and that’s why we are where we are, because we’ve been very consistent. Last year, we were very up and down, we were very poor in the Spring Season and we were chasing it. But for us this year, the whole season has been very good.”

Things did look bleak for a while Sunday as FC Edmonton conceded a goal 10 minutes into the second half to go down 1-0.

Defender Papé Diakité, however, tied the contest and snapped the goalless skid with a rocket into the top corner off a rebound with 10 minutes left in the game.

The goal lifted a weight off Edmonton, who pushed for the winner and got it through Fisk. He, himself, had been snake-bitten since joining the club in July, hitting three goalposts in three consecutive games at one point.