Match Lookahead: All You Need To Know: Ottawa vs. Cavalry FC on July 29, 7pm
Atlético Ottawa has won four consecutive home matches in the Canadian Premier League are is seeking to confirm TD Place as a fortress with this weekend’s clash against top-of-the0table Cavalry FC (KO 7 pm ET, live on OneSoccer).
Here’s everything you need to know before Saturday’s match at TD Place.
- Atlético Ottawa sits in 6th place in the Canadian Premier League with 21 points from 16 matches.
- Cavalry FC is 1st with 27 points from 16 matches.
- This is the third meeting between Ottawa and Cavalry in 2023 (1W-0D-1L) and the first time these two sides have met at TD Place this season.
- Ottawa has picked up 9 points from the last 12 available, including a victory away to Cavalry FC earlier in June (0-2), with goals scored by Ollie Bassett and Jean-Aniel Assi.
- Bassett is second in the CPL in goals (7) and combined goals/assists (10) so far this season.
- Assi’s goal, against his former side, was the 18-year-old’s first as a professional.
- Trinidad and Tobago international striker Malcolm Shaw is the all-time top scorer in this fixture with four goals.
- Cavalry FC’s emphatic 5-1 victory away to Vancouver FC last weekend saw Tommy Wheldon Jr.’s side leapfrog Pacific FC into 1st place.
- Striker Myer Bevan leads the CPL in goals (8) and combined goals-assists (11) so far this season.
- For this weekend’s match, Atlético Ottawa is encouraging fans to bring their lightly used soccer equipment for donation.
- Equipment will be donated to the Odawa Native Friendship Centre
- Items include, but are not limited to: boots, gloves, shinpads, cones, bibs and soccer balls.
- One supporter will win a brand new Apple Watch thanks to TELUS.
- Equipment will be donated to the Odawa Native Friendship Centre
- Record head-to-head (all-time): 7W-1D-2L; 18 goals scored, 9 goals conceded.