Cambridge United Men mount comeback win in another derby day outing

Thursday, July 17th 2025

Guelph, ON—Cambridge United’s Men’s First Team travelled to Guelph for another

Derby Day matchup.

Team

Cambridge United Starting XI: Schafer, Grant, E. Antolcic, Amaral (McKeon 68’),

Ciavarro (Elezi 83’), Ferraro, Kohar, Paton, Thamilventhan, Brousseau, Romano

Unused subs: Ramsay, Andrasic, Mun, Greenidge, Heimbecker, Sran, Marchant

First Half

Heated game - spurned from a deep-seeded rivalry between the two teams. Alex

Amaral picked up a yellow card early on in the 20th minute. Guelph would capitalise

first, off of a freekick to put themselves up 1-0 in the 25th minute.

Minutes later the goal scorer for Guelph and Matteo Grant would each be handed a

yellow card after a late challenge by the former resulted in Grant’s teammate Landon

Paton going down hard after he cleared the ball.

The first half would end with Cambridge trailing by one, though they showed signs of

offensive threat consistently throughout the half.

Second Half

The second half saw no end to the intense atmosphere and aggressive play,

Cambridge United’s Paton, Luca Romano, and Saab Kohar all picking up yellow

cards in a span of ten minutes.

Their intensity would pay off, however, when Cambridge was awarded a penalty kick.

Christian Ferraro would step up and deftly put it away in the 65th minute to bring his

team astride Guelph at one apiece.

Amaral exited the field to make way for Gregor McKeon in the 68th minute and in the

83rd, Jone Elezi came on for Matthew Ciavarro as the visitors pushed for the late

winner.

It would come in the form of Evan Antolcic in the 93rd minute of play. On the

receiving end of a ball over top from centre-back Kohar, E. Antolcic took it in on goal

and found the far side upper netting to put his side up 2-1 in the dying moments of

the game, sealing the derby day comeback win for Cambridge.