{"id":22637,"date":"2020-08-15T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/regional\/forge-fc-starts-the-new-season-with-a-controversial-draw\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:55:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:55:55","slug":"forge-fc-starts-the-new-season-with-a-controversial-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/forge-fc-starts-the-new-season-with-a-controversial-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Forge FC starts the new season with a controversial draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first game of Forge FC&#8217;s season as defending champions was soured by a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForgeFCHamilton\/status\/1294094392727343104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">late stoppage time penalty awarded to Cavalry FC<\/a> last night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After Forge scored what looked like the winner about 20 minutes earlier, Cavalry were awarded a penalty in the 94th minute that was slickly put away with the game ending as a 2-2 draw.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HIGHLIGHTS: A battle from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Forge FC 2, Cavalry FC 2<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForgeFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ForgeFC<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CanPL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CanPL<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IslandGames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IslandGames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lz0Nqv7mnG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Lz0Nqv7mnG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Forge FC (@ForgeFCHamilton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForgeFCHamilton\/status\/1294283709017972736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The incident that led to the penalty was a shot that came off Forge defender Dominic Samuel&#8217;s side then arm. Samuel was making an attempt to block the shot after being duped by the Cavalry attacker. The ball struck the defender&#8217;s outstretched arm and the referee awarded the penalty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forge captain Kyle Bekker gave the Hamilton team the lead with a diving header in the 71st minute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The game started off as a messy and disjointed affair, which is a product of the start-stop training camps and postponed season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dominick Zator scored the opener to give Cavalry the early lead. Then, Forge&#8217;s Anthony Novak evened up the game at 1-1 a few minutes later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hamilton team continues their stint at The Island Games on Sunday against FC Edmonton.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first game of Forge FC&#8217;s season as defending champions was soured by a late stoppage time penalty awarded to Cavalry FC last night.\u00a0 After Forge scored what looked like the winner about 20 ...","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[924,925,19,20,5789,706,229],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/soccer-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28082,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions\/28082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}