Autumn Allison

autumn.allison@indystar.com

The Indy Eleven (3-7-10) fought FC Edmonton (6-5-9) to a draw Saturday night in front of another capacity crowd at Carroll Stadium.

For the Eleven, it continued a season-long streak of frustration as they try to secure a home NASL victory. To date, they are 0-6-5.

"To be fair to Edmonton, they did really well defensively. Stayed very compact. Stayed very deep. Just kind of filled the spaces that we find the most joy of being in front of goals," said Eleven coach Juergen Sommer. "They did a very good job to just kind of sit back and make it difficult for us."

With the tie, the Eleven has just three games left to secure that elusive first home win.

"For some reason it hasn't happened," said midfielder Victor Pineda, who scored the Eleven's lone goal Saturday, his first for the club. "The team has been working extremely hard during training and during games. We haven't lost in our last three games so that says a lot about the energy and the hard work that the team has been putting in."

Pineda squeezed the ball passed Edmonton keeper John Smits on a rebound from Sergio Pena's shot.

"Thought Victor had a great game. The last couple of games, he's been really growing on us and the amount of work he has put out there has been tremendous," Sommer said.

The positive feeling wouldn't last long. An equalizer from Neil Hlavaty on a free kick nine minutes later set the score where it would remain for the remainder of the game.

No goals but plenty of shots and several fouls occurred in the second half.

"The game started really bright but it sort of slowed down especially since we were trying to be patient defensively. Not to play ourselves out of the game," said Sommer. "Maybe both teams were looking at the results and kind of thinking '1-1 won't be that bad.' "

The Eleven ended with better numbers offensively. The club had more attacks (74) and more goal kicks (11).

But even with those stats and improved team chemistry, the team has yet to share a victory with its home fans. Making matters more frustrating is the team's solid play in its last game, where they closed out the Atlanta Silverbacks 2-1.

"We looked really, really bright," Sommer said. "There was moments there and many games we've had so far this season ... where everybody showed up and we were just difficult to manage in game.

"I think we are getting very, very close for that to happen. Obviously we want that to happen sooner rather than later."

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