Manchester 0 EC 3

Nice, crisp fall day and we're at Manchester to play a team that has been a thorn in our side for years. No one on the team at the moment has beaten them (2 losses, 1 draw) and we need this one to keep momentum going forward. Manchester hasn't had the best of years but this rarely means anything in conference play. We are without Frank Mbaya, sitting out a card accumulation suspension, which puts Zander Ansara in the back with the now regular crew of Ferreira, Nsoesie, Kabeya. We are pleased by having old boy Omar Dreidi with us for the day.

The game starts evenly and they have as much possession as we do early on but in the ninth minute Jacob Ebbs again scores a neat chipped goal to get us in the lead. As the half progresses, as in many of our games, we get more and more in possession and on top but the half comes with the score 1-0 us.

The game restarts and Manchester applies some pressure until the 50th minute when a punt from Sam Embry is nodded on by Tamru Taye and finished by Feli Muyumba when the deftest (and least) of touches. We now begin to exert more and more control and in the 73rd minute Salvador Rivas finds a ball in front of goal and pokes it in for the goal Latinos call "el  solido"---the third goal marking the certainty of one team's superiority in the contest.

As the match continues we're able to get other players in for a spell in the match, giving Demise a chance to bike a ball out of the back and Daniel Wilson the experience of contesting 3 consecutive air balls with bigger opposition. An important win, but with one disappointment: Ameer picks up a fifth yellow, meaning he'll sit the Transy game coming up.