With his side entering halftime down a goal, York coach Benjamín Mora opted to make a change at the interval, swapping Josué Martínez into his midfield in place of Santiago Márquez. Less than 15 minutes later, he also brought in Kembo Kibato — making his club debut after arriving last week from Vancouver FC — in place of Orlando Botello.

Just after the game ticked over an hour, though, Cavalry struck again. After York had the ball down in the attacking third, Warschewski dug the ball out and launched a counter, drawing three defenders toward him and knocking it forward for Camargo. He took a few strides with the ball in transition and looked up to see Vincensini well off his line, so Camargo lofted a shot from almost 40 yards out, sailing it over the head of the keeper and into the back of the net.

After taking a comfortable lead, Cavalry did well to see out the remainder of the evening. They controlled the tempo of the match and kept York from establishing a rhythm, also making a handful of changes to not only add some defensive cover but collect some much-needed U-21 minutes as well.

To make matters worse for York, Jorge Guzmán was shown a red card (for a second yellow within about 15 seconds of the first) just seconds before the end of the match, meaning he’ll now face suspension for at least one upcoming game as well.

The visitors thus held on to win 2-0, not only leapfrogging York to officially occupy third place, but also moving to level footing with second-place Atlético Ottawa at 38 points (although still behind with fewer wins).

Cavalry will clinch their spot in the playoffs this weekend if Halifax Wanderers draw against Valour FC and Vancouver FC lose to Forge FC.

Charlie O'Connor-Clarke, CanPL.ca

BOX SCORELineups

York United: Vincensini; Ferrari (Jimoh 64′), León, Higgins (Baldisimo 82′), Botello (Kibato 57′); Córdova, Márquez (Martínez 46′), Adekugbe, Guzmán; Wright (Voytsekhovskyy 82′), Babouli

Cavalry FC: Carducci; Harms, Montgomery, Field, Kamdem; Shome, Gutiérrez (Myroniuk 87′); Musse (Kobza 87′), Camargo, Wähling (Herdman 81′); Warschewski (Chanda 90+2′)

Goals

20′ — Ali Musse (Cavalry FC)

62′ — Sergio Camargo (Cavalry FC)

Discipline

45+1′ — Yellow: Oswaldo León (York United)

45+2′ — Yellow: Max Ferrari (York United)

53′ — Yellow: Orlando Botello (York United)

57′ — Yellow: Tom Field (Cavalry FC)

59′ — Yellow: Tobias Warschewski (Cavalry FC)

73′ — Yellow: Juan Cordóva (York United)

77′ — Yellow: Elijah Adekugbe (York United)

90+1′ — Yellow: Bradley Kamdem (Cavalry FC)

90+9′ — Yellow: Jorge Guzmán (York United)

90+9′ — 2nd Yellow: Jorge Guzmán (York United)

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