Comets Defeat Mustangs in Chicago
November 8, 2014 - Major Arena Soccer League (MASL)
Kansas City Comets News Release
The Missouri Comets earned their second straight victory of the season after defeating the reigning PASL Champions Chicago Mustangs 12-6 at the Sears Centre on Saturday night.
For the second time this season, last year's MISL top scorer Leo Gibson tallied four goals and seven different players scored for the Comets.
Head Coach Vlatko Andonovski's team was too much of a challenge for the Mustangs who had not lost a game in over a year as they went undefeated last season ending with an overall record of 16-0.
Throughout the four quarters, Chicago had a hard time containing the Comets' offense and were unable to possess the ball in the first half, which saw the visitors take a 6-1 to the locker rooms.
Missouri went up early in the game after team captain Vahid Assadpour scored his fourth of the season before Andre Braithwaite and Brian Harris found the back of the net along with a shootout conversion from the home squad to end the quarter 3-1.
The second quarter saw Gibson score the fourth of the night before Max Touloute tallied his first of the season to make it 5-1. Moments before the end of the first half, Braithwaite notched his second of the match to end the second quarter with a score of 6-1.
After Gibson and Matingou increased the lead and made it 8-1 in the first five minutes of the third quarter, Head Coach Armando Gamboa's team scored two goals in a one-minute span but Stefan Stokic scored his first of the season to end the quarter 10-3.
The final fifteen minutes saw a total of five goals scored. The Mustangs shortened Missouri's lead with goals from Baca and Ortega. However, a rocket from Harris and a PK conversion from Gibson ended the match with a final score of 12-6.
"They were the better team tonight," Gamboa said. "I can give you a thousand excuses but we simply didn't play as a team in the first half, which cost us the match."
Next up, the Comets will face the Milwaukee Wave in the home opener at the Independence Events Center.
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