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Result of the Sunday September 8th, 2002 CPSL game between Toronto Olympians and Metro Lions played at Erin Mills Twin Arenas in Mississauga at 3:00pm.
Mississauga Olympians (all white, black numbers, blue sides)
..........................................1 Pieter Meuleman
..................4 Shaun Samuels...5 Mike Marshall...20 Shannon Muehado
19 Damon Basak...8 Darren Tilley...6 Alan Brown...3 Jason Pedra
.................16 Ryan Lucas...11 Joevannie Peart...12 Haydon Fitzwilliams
Subs:...2 Brian Graham...18 David Gee...13 Alex Shleak...1 Patrick Osunduba (gk)
also listed as subs were:...17 Daryl Holmes...15 Adrain Serioux...7 Jimmy Kuzmanovski but they weren't there.
team officials:...coach David Gee...equipment manager John Gee...physio Erin Castleman
Metro Lions (all blue, white numbers, black sides and shoulders and black pinstripes)
...............................................00 Patrick Bradley
.................16 O'Neil Brown...17 Paul Okumu...4 Jason Baker
19 Mishel Levkov...10 Courtney Dennis...15 Ferdinando Tantalo...21 Emil Calixterio...20 Caswain Mason
..............................9 Mike Glasgow...22 Peter Firebrace
Subs:...18 Carlos Redman...11 Anton Skerritt...2 Shawn Long
team officials:...head coach Aldwyn McGill...assistant coach Junior Parker...manager Ralph Aquino...trainer Paolo Paccione
Game officials:...referee Domenic Rossetto...referee's assistants Neil Schofield and Calin Pintea...fourth official Patty Peebles...(red shirts, black shorts and socks)
1st Half:...game starts 3:12pm...MO defend south end on this very hot and sunny afternoon. All times are converted from my wristwatch.
2 min...ML Glasgow runs down right but 25 yard shot is wide right.
3 min...MO Lucas 25 yard shot from right is well over net.
3 min...MO Tilley 30 yard shot just over bar.
4 min...MO Peart cornerkick from left, MO Tilley stops it with his back to net and hooks 10 yard shot over own head but ball is over net.
6 min...MO Tilley pushes ball up middle, MO Peart runs across right and cuts 20 yard shot over net.
9 min...MO Tilley chips 14 yard ball from left, leaping MO Peart knocks ball down but it's cleared.
10 min...MO Pedra cornerkick from right has MO Tilley flick ball wide across box.
12 min...ML goalie outleaps charging MO Lucas on edge of box to catches ball.
13 min...ML player freekick from 25 yards across to ML Calixterio whose shot is blocked by defender ML Levkov on right 15 yard shot caught by goalie on short side.
15 min...MO Fitzwilliams heads down ball across box but ball is cleared.
16 min...ML Levkov ends ML team's pressure with 30 yard shot over MO net.
22 min...MO Fitzwilliams gets to ball in crowd of players in ML box but high kick from 10 yards is over net.
23 min...MO Pedra cornerkick from right is through box, MO Muehado eventually crosses back from left wide right of net.
26 min...ML Calixterio runs and pass up middle, ML Glasgow rolls cross/pass wide left from 12 yards that rolls wide right of net.
27 min...ML Calixterio freekick from 40 yards on left, ML Tantalo gets to partially cleared rebound and 30 yard shot is wide left.
29 min...ML goalie runs forward to palm ball barely over own net.
34 min...ML Glasgow slides shot from 15 yards on right under defender MO Brown and ball rolls weakly to goalie.
36 min...ML Firebrace slides cross from left that deflects off defender and goalie and defender for cornerkick.
40 min...ML goalie catches 55 yard high bouncer.
41 min...ML Tantalo long run through middle passes right to ML Levkov, he crosses to center and ML Firebrace blasts 20 yard shot around defender and ball is caught by goalie.
41 min...ML Mason 25 yard shot is well wide right.
43 min...ML Dennis 45 yard high pass through middle easily caught by goalie.
44 min...MO Fitzwilliams 12 yard header knocked on left that's bounced to goalie.
46 min...half ends 3:58pm.
2nd Half:...starts 4:17pm.
47 min...ML Dennis gets cross from right and 12 yard shot hits crossbar, ball is kicked around and ML Okumu 30 yard rebound from right is caught by goalie.
48 min...ML Dennis 20 yard shot is saved by goalie.
51 min...ML Glasgow freekick on left corner of box is lobbed over ML Firebrace's head at 8 yards.
53 min...MO Tilley heads 10 yard shot that goalie fumbled, MO player eventually blasts in 3 yard shot but play was whistled down for bumping the goalie.
54 min...ML Baker 50 yard freekick from left bounces to goalie.
55 min...MO Lucas runs down left, cross to MO Tilley who finds it tough to turn around and lofts shot wide left from 15 yards.
56 min...A rolling cross just ahead of charging ML Dennis, ML Firebrace gets to it but his 7 yard shot from left end line is into outside mesh of net.
59 min...MO YELLOW card...Tilley for pulling down ML Dennis on edge of MO box.
60 min...ML Dennis touches ball on left end of box on freekick and ML Mason rolls 15 yard shot wide left.
61 min...ML sub...Redman replaces Levkov.
63 min...ML Glasgow rolls pass from right, ML Firebrace hits left goalpost and defender boots away sitter before charging forward can get rebound. MO goalie injured on right side.
65 min...ML Mason crosses from left side but ball drifts behind net.
66 min...ML goalie picks up rolled cross from left.
67 min...MO Basak cross from right is behind ML net ending MO team's stretch of pressure.
68 min...ML Glasgow flicks up 20 yard shot that defender outleaps forward to head ball back to goalie.
69 min...ML goalie beats MO Peart to boot away through ball.
71 min...ML Okumu runs down right, cross hits back of bar on left.
72 min...ML sub...Skerritt replaces Glasgow.
73 min...ML Calixterio cornerkick from right is headed away.
73 min...Lions Peter Firebrace GOAL...Firebrace receives ball up middle from center line, he turns and blasts 20 yard shot into center of net over diving goalie Pieter Meuleman.
74 min...ML Mason runs down left, crosses a pass to box where charging ML Dennis just misses 5 yard header.
76 min...MO Marshall injured in MO end.
78 min...MO Tilley gets ball at center when ML defender falls. He rolls pass forward for MO Lucas whose low 25 yard shot is batted down by goalie at 10 yards and then picked up.
80 min...ML Dennis gets ball centered to him from left and has time to transfer ball to left foot but then shanks 15 yard shot well over net.
81 min...MO Tilley cornerkick from left is well over box.
82 min...MO Tilley pops 30 yard shot over net.
83 min...ML Firebrace injured in MO end. Referee calls a water break.
84 min...ML sub...Long replaces Tantalo.
87 min...Lions Peter Firebrace GOAL...Olympians Darren Tilley freekick on right corner of box, Lions goalie Patrick Bradley catches it on short right side and quickly throws a long ball that bounces at center to open Firebrace on a breakaway. Firebrace rushes in and chips 30 yard shot that leaping goalie gets hand to on edge of box but can't stop ball from bouncing into open net.
90 min...MO Basak 25 yard shot from right bends wide left.
91 min...ML Calixterio steps into middle and blasts 20 yard shot caught by goalie.
92 min...ML Mason on left backheels pass to ML Firebrace and sidesteps defender on left but he blasts 5 yard shot well over net.
92 min...game ends 5:06pm.
Final Score:......Mississauga Olympians.........0..........Metro Lions.............2.......
Attendance was about 60 on this very hot day with a bright sun in the west. With the earth getting hotter every year, I can see the Olympians going to night games next year because this was the fourth steambath I've sat through.
Good open action most of the game but Olympians tired at the end and had no bench again this game except a back up goalie and coach David Gee listed as a sub in attendance. Of the four A-League Toronto Lynx players they added, two were injured in their Friday night debut, one no-showed for this game (Adrian Serioux) and forward Ryan Lucas looked pretty ordinary although he did have an ice pack on this ankle after the game.
Metro Lions win their fifth game in a row and look on target to grab one of the three playoff positions in the Eastern Division! Referee Domenic Rossetto only gave out one caution card in this hard fought game.
Rocket Robin
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