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Edmonton 2, Fury 0

Two defensive blunders and failure to turn territorial advantage into goals saw the Ottawa Fury FC fall 2-0 to North American Soccer League’s Canadian rival FC Edmonton at TD Place stadium on Saturday.

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The win was key for Edmonton which is in the playoff hunt, while Ottawa was trying to play the spoiler. On this day two goals in the first 20 minutes were enough to repel the Fury.

Lance Laing was the man who did the damage for Edmonton.

Nine minutes into the game, he raced down the left wing and put in a low cross that Chad Burt got to ahead of Mason Trafford and slipped the ball home.

After 20 minutes Edmonton was awarded a questionable corner which Laing launched. Both Nikki Paterson, stationed on the right-hand post, watched as did goalkeeper Romuald Peiser as the ball drifted into the back of the net. Edmonton then sat on their lead for the win.

Fury coach Marc Dos Santos, who was not happy with the effort in the opening half, had a clear opinion after the game.

“I think that most of the game was one-directional, where (Edmonton) went maybe three or four times to our net and scored on our mistakes,” he said. “At the end of the day, we had a lot of the ball, but they scored twice.”

The Fury play their last home game next Saturday against the Indy Eleven in the final “Expansion Battle” of 2014.

Photo by Mike Carroccetto / Ottawa Citizen

Photo by Mike Carroccetto / Ottawa Citizen

Photo by Mike Carroccetto / Ottawa Citizen

Photo by Mike Carroccetto / Ottawa Citizen

Photo by Mike Carroccetto / Ottawa Citizen

Photo by Mike Carroccetto / Ottawa Citizen

Photo by Mike Carroccetto / Ottawa Citizen