2nd Half:...starts 5:11pm.
halftime sub...BH Ncube replaces Fran.
46 min...City YELLOW card...Velis for feet up challenge on BH Ionadi.
47 min...BH Ionadi freekick from 35 yards on left, sliding BH Yaques pops header over net from 12 yards.
48 min...BH Herrera cross from left is caught by goalie.
51 min...City Sergio Siguenza Velis GOAL...City Isa Bulka takes cornerkick from right, partially cleared and Velis blasts 30 yard shot that hits right post and deflects across goalmouth to hit left post and then deflects into net. Wow!
52 min...City Velis updends in BH Herrera in City end but no card given.
53 min...BH Ionadi 30 yard freekick from left is headed away by leaping defender.
56 min...BH player's cornerkick from right is headed into box from left by BH Bustamante but defenders clear.
58 min...BH Yaques takes 35 yard low shot that bounces to goalie.
59 min...City sub...Ben Sari replaces Andrew.
59 min...City goalie slides into sliding BH Mella injuring him in box.
62 min...City YELLOW card...Loague for slap on collision with BH player at center circle.
65 min...BH sub...Holmes replaces Mella.
65 min...BH Morrison 30 yard shot through crowd is saved by diving goalie on right.
67 min...BH Ionadi 30 yard freekick on right is chipped into box and sliding BH Bustamante misconnects on 10 yard scissor kick wide right.
68 min...City Loague injured in center circle.
70 min...BH Ionadi 35 yard freekick bounced to BH Herrera whose chip is headed away by leaping defender in wall.
71 min...Hitmen Milodrag Akmadzic GOAL...BH Maximilian Andrada chips cross from left, goalie gets hand to it but Akmadzic pounds in 2 yarder on right post.
71 min...City sub...Elmauer replaces Ben Sari.
74 min...Hitmen Hugo Herrera GOAL...Herrera disposses City defender Sergio Siguenza Velis of ball on great scissor tackle steal while Velis is running away from net. Herrera finds himself in alone at 20 yards on left edge of box and sends 15 yard low shot to right corner of net.
75 min...BH player sends 35 yard shot from right well over net wide left.
80 min...BH Ionadi chips ball into box on kick after he's tapped freekick from 35 yards on left but defender clears.
81 min...Hitmen Phil Ionadi GOAL...Ionadi in middle of field connects on midair 25 yard blast from center that bends into right corner of net. Wow!
82 min...City Velis low 30 yard roller picked up BH goalie.
83 min...City YELLOW card...Commisso for tackle on BH Bustamante at center line.
84 min...BH sub...Thind replaces Herrera.
85 min...BH Andrada injured in City box and needs to be helped off field.
86 min...BH sub...Da Silva replaces injured Andrada.
87 min...City RED card...Tonino Commisso picks up his second Yellow card within four minutes as he clips Hitmen Johnny Bustamante who had just ran into City box. Referee Steve Mortimer also awarded a Penalty kick.
88 min...Hitmen Phil Ionadi GOAL...Ionadi shoots his Penalty kick low and into right corner of net leaving the goalie sliding over too late.
90 min...BH Ionadi gets ball crossed forward from right and 20 yard blast just missed top left corner of net.
93 min...City Elmauer can't control cross from right on BH left end line.
93 min...game ends 5:59pm.
Final Score:..........Brampton Hitmen............5..............London City.............2..........
Attendance was about 125 on this warm sunny day with the brightness bothering the Hitmen forwards in the second half. A choice of four games in the Toronto area to watch but I chose this one as it's my first time to see London City in town this year.
A 'Goal of the Season' was struck by Velis of London City with his second half shot. Ionadi's 25 yard blast is another candidate, however the most 'important' goals were the two by defender Milodrag Akmadzic by pouncing on these garbage chances. Last year I heard he was the oldest player in the league at least forty. Never a problem to give him the command "talk to each other" when coach Steve Nijjar wants his players to communicate where they are. City coach Harry Paul Gauss was getting his players to do the same thing. Despite his runs upfield to be the 'tall man' for cornerkicks or freekicks, he's usually back in the defence to stop counterattacks. And of course what would a game be like without him getting a Yellow card? This time for complaining to the referee about the London opening goal.
Hitmen break out of a losing slump and take a stronger hold on at least second place. City played well but only brought two subs so they had limited choices in bringing in their extra players and were stuck when some of their players were tiring.
No fourth official today so I got the call to put a spare ball into play on the numerous times a ball was put over the end or side walls of the field. With yesterday's microphone work at Centennial Stadium, I'm expanding from my limitations as the guy who's always writing into his notebook.
Rocket Robin
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