The Villages SC 2–1 East Atlanta FC
Southern Conference Quarterfinal, TowneBank Stadium, Newport News, Virginia.
We won in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
10' — Leonardo Paiva put the Southeast Division champions ahead early.
41' — Adeola Oke levelled it for East Atlanta just before the break.
1–1 at half time.
90+5' — Rafael Vacas, assisted by Leonardo Paiva.
2–1, with the last kick of the match.
Vacas again.
Five weeks earlier he had scored the winner at Florida Elite — the club whose staff had treated him poorly when he worked as away team liaison while injured. Now a stoppage-time winner in a conference quarterfinal.
Nick Butler was not in the eighteen.
After scoring against River Plate, Butler was invited to a professional club for a trial in Spain so he took the chance.
Vandyke Gyau came to the hotel. He drove to a hotel in Virginia to see the lads before a playoff match and came to the game to cheer the boys on.
Through to the conference semifinal.
