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Result of the Thursday August 19th, 2004 CPSL game from Metro Lions vs. Brampton Hitmen played at Birchmount Stadium in Scarborough at 7:00pm.
Metro Lions (white socks and shirts, navy shorts, red names)
........................00 Courtney Campbell
............14 Kevin Ricketts...8 Sasha Kosanovic...4 Marc Jankovic
5 Gregory Messam...7 Caswain Mason...13 Kareem Reynolds (cpt)...20 Maxim Dorneval...10 Hayden Fizwilliams
................19 Craig Patton...11 Gabriel Salustius
Subs:...25 Gregory Drakes (gk)...9 Darryl Gomez...22 Marko Janjicek...12 Mishel Levkov...18 Billy Ninopoulos...2 Omar Samuels
team officials:...manager/coach Goran Micevic...assistant coach B Bratic...officials Ken Mollineau and A Sulkowski
Brampton Hitmen (all blue, black shoulders, white numbers and trim)
..........................01 Tony Swaminathan
..............8 Bayete Smith...5 Milodrag Akmadzic...19 Sean Roberts
18 Lovemore Ncube...11 Jonathan Bustamante...4 Alex Morrison...13 Phil Ionadi (cpt)...15 Angel Velasquez
....................9 Hugo Herrera...14 Ivan Jurisic
Subs:...00 Roy Blanche...6 Maximilliano Andrada...10 Paul Daccobert...7 William Giummarra...20 Yusif Jawando...17 Kurt Mella...22 Nicholas Poku
team official:...manager Hector Marianaro
Game officials:...referee Michael Lambert...referee Vladan Djordjevic and Geoff Gamble...fourth official Tamara Reitsma...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)...match observer Walter Kirchner
1st Half:...game starts 7:13pm...ML defend north bright sun in northwest.
20 sec...BH Herrara injured just outside ML box.
4 min...ML Patton runs down left side and bounces low cross into box for charging ML Salustius to kick but can't connect.
5 min...ML goalie runs out to slide and grabs through ball and BH Herrera jumps over him.
6 min...BH Ionadi freekick from 25 yards on right has goalie bat down than catch on right post.
8 min...ML Messam rounds charging keeper on right edge of box and BH Smith boots ball wide right.
9 min...ML Salustius rush on right and cross through box is cleared.
13 min...Hitmen goalie Tony Swaminathan makes bad clearance to Lions Gregory Messam 25 yards from net who passes ahead to Lions Gabriel Salustius and goalie pulls him down left of net injuring him. Referee Michael Lambert gives Swaminathan a Yellow card and awards Lions a penalty kick.
14 min...Lions Craig Patton GOAL...Patton rolls Penalty kick into left side of net as goalie falls to middle.
17 min...BH pass in ML box is ruled offside.
18 min...Hitmen Ivan Jurisic GOAL...Hitmen player gets in quick freekick from edge of Lions box as some players are still arguing call. Ball rolled from left to center and Jurisic rolls low shot to left corner of net with goalie Courtney Campbell shuffling the wrong way and can't dive back in time.
19 min...ML Fitzwilliams cross from left end line is into webbing of net.
21 min...ML Kosanovic 40 yard freekick from left is caught by goalie.
23 min...ML Patton 20 yard roller from right has BH Smith saves ball on line playing left side of net.
27 min...BH goalie grabs ball in box ahead of ML Messam who's ready to knock at loose ball.
29 min...ML YELLOW card...Ricketts for hard tackle on BH Ncube on sideline.
30 min...BH Ionadi 25 yard freekick from left is crossed to edge of box but ML defender heads away.
31 min...BH Herrera gets clear shot on bouncer into box and goalie has to make point blank save from 15 yards because goalie had called off defenders.
32 min...Referee has to talk to players including ML Messam to restore order.
34 min...ML Messam pops up shot from 20 yards on chip caught by goalie wide left of net.
39 min...ML Messam long throw-in from right, ML Mason pops up 12 yard header caught by goalie.
41 min...BH Bustamante 30 yard shot through players wide right of net.
42 min...ML Patton blast from extreme left has goalie slide and deflect over net.
43 min...ML Messam cornerkick from right has charging ML Jankovic flick 7 yard header over net.
44 min...ML Dorneval cornerkick from left has BH Akmadzic head away cross from right has ML Messam in middle knock 12 yard header over net.
46 min...ML Fitzwilliams beats two defender on left and 12 yard shot from extreme angle is wide right through box.
47 min...half ends 8:00pm.
2nd Half:...starts 8:15pm.
halftime subs:...BH Poku replaces Morrison.
..............BH Andrada replaces Velasquez.
46 min...BH Herrera 25 yard shot caught by goalie.
47 min...Hitmen Hugo Herrara GOAL...Hitmen Jonathan Bustamante rolls pass along edge of Lions box from left and finds Herrera in open and he rolls shot into right corner of net.
no chances for next ten minutes.
57 min...ML Reynolds 27 yard freekick from left hits player in wall and deflects into box but defender clears.
60 min...BH YELLOW card...Andrada for trip on right on ML Patton just outside box.
61 min...ML Patton 20 yard freekick from right edge of box is over heads of three ML players on left post.
62 min...ML Jankovic cross from 25 yards on left is caught by goalie.
63 min...BH goalie runs out to clear through ball ahead of ML Bustamante.
64 min...Lions Maxim Dorneval GOAL...Dorneval is knocked a cross by Lions Gabriel Salustius from right and he has time to stop ball and 15 yard shot from left is into middle of net.
65 min...ML Dorneval shot from left past goalie but defender clears from 2 yards.
66 min...ML YELLOW card...Salustius for pulling down BH Smith in own end just outsdie box.
.............BH YELLOW card...Smith for retaliating. This incident took three minutes to sort out.
70 min...ML Messam cornerkick from right has ball caught by goalie on right post.
72 min...BH goalie leaps in crowd to catch 40 yard cross from ML Mason.
73 min...ML goalie catches BH Ncube 50 yard lob into box.
74 min...ML Salustius clipped in center circle injuring him.
75 min...BH sub...Daccobert replaces Jurisic.
76 min...Lions Gabriel Salustius GOAL...Lions player's short pass finds Salustius on right all alone and he chips goalie from 12 yards into left corner of net.
77 min...BH sub...Giummarra replaces Ionadi.
78 min...ML Jankovic 40 yard chip into box from left caught by goalie.
80 min...ML Messam 30 yard freekick from right caught by goalie unpressured.
82 min...ML Fitzwilliams run through left and cross to ML Dorneval who has 10 yard shot caught by flying goalie.
83 min...ML Reynolds receives throw-in from left and 20 yard shot is wide right.
84 min...ML sub...Gomez replaces Salustius.
.............BH sub...Jawando replaces Bustamante.
85 min...BH Giummarra cornerkick from right is caught by goalie in crowd of players.
87 min...ML Dorneval has pass pushed in box to ML Patton whose 10 yard shot blocked by goalie. ML Dorneval boots 15 yard rebound over net.
94 min...BH Herrera flicks header from 7 yards after cross from left that diving goalie catches.
95 min...Hitmen Paul Daccobert GOAL...Daccobert beats Lions defender Marc Jankovic to ball and chips it over goalie from 15 yards and ball bounces into net with Lions defender Sasha Kosanovic rushing in can't quite get back in time to clear ball.
96 min...BH YELLOW card...Daccobert for not giving 10 yards on freekick from near ML box! (no chance of scoring 90 yards away).
97 min...BH goalie rushes to edge of box to catch cross.
98 min...Hitmen Paul Daccobert injured inside Lions box. Lions Sasha Kosanovic gets Yellow card for knocking down Daccobert and referee awards a penalty kick.
100 min...Hitmen Willie Giummarra Penalty kick. Giummarra rolls shot to left that diving goalie pushes wide right and ball is cleared.
100 min...Game finally ends at 9:10pm.
Final Score:.............Metro Lions...........3.................Brampton Hitmen...........3.............
Attendance gradually picked up to about 80 by the end of the game from half this many for the early start weeknight game.
An extra ten minutes of injury time was actually quite fair because referee Mike Lambert had to issue a lot of cautions and give some talks to players to cool down the emotions. There were also no ball boys and balls behind the net could roll 40 yards to the back fence. Also balls kicked over the sidelines could roll under the stands and finding the few kids to crawl under to stands to get the ball wasn't easy. Only late in the game did the referee ease up and have the fourth official unpack the extra balls.
This game got pretty rough with lots of hacks and retaliation especially in the second half. The referee evened out the penalty kick calls in the last minute but it was scary how the Lions almost gave this game away. Their tie briefly puts them in the lead of the Eastern Conference but expecting Toronto Supra should beat Durham Storm tomorrow they will fall to second. The league's two best teams are in the same conference. With a completely balanced schedule of eleven teams, throwing every team into one table would have been the fairest way to settle the season, and then let the top six into the playoffs.
Lions Hayden Fitzwilliams and Gregory Messam fed the crosses into forwards Craig Patton and Gabriel Salustius. The Lions don't believe in sitting on a lead and that left the burden of defense on Kevin Ricketts, Sasha Kosanovic and Marc Jankovic but they had their troubles near the end as some key subs by the Hitmen brought on some fresh legs. Hitmen's defense was anchored by veteran Milodrag Akmadzic who wasn't afraid to yell at his own defenders when they'd get beaten on a play.
The Lions international exhibition game will be played Sunday September 12th against Portmore United FC the Jamaican Premier League champions of 2003. They were formally known as Hazard United which means that I've seen this team before! It was in 1984 when Hazard United played Toronto Blizzard of the APSL and beat the home team 1-0 when the Blizzard had to play shorthanded for the second half when a player was red carded.
Rocket Robin
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