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Result of the Saturday September 26th, 2009 CSL game between Portugal FC and Trois-Rivieres Attak played at Brockton Stadium in Toronto at 8:00pm. This was the first game of a two game Quarterfinal playoff.
Portugal FC (all maroon, yellow numbers)
........................1 Mike Silva
3 Andre Stewart...11 Danny Amaral...5 Giovanni Annissi (cpt)...2 Jaroslaw Radzinski
15 Kevin McIntosh...23 Andrew Leite...8 Carlos Nogueira...18 Biruk Nida
...............22 Darcy Lenton...19 Gustavo Serrano
Subs:...6 Martin Brovetto...16 Jonathan Pacheco...9 Joseph Philip...17 Jaime Carvalho
team officials:...head coach Danny Amara...assistant coach Jaime Carvalho...manager Tony Maio...trainer/physio Mike Peters
Trois-Rivieres Attak (all blue, white numbers and trim)
.......................22 Andrei Badescu
24 Francesco Augustin...20 Karl Ouimette...5 Joey Cortese...3 Elkana Mayard
14 James Louis-Jeune...15 Maxim Tissot...8 Chris Rumuri...6 Kevin Cossette
.................18 Guillaume Heroux...7 Yan Rome Gosselin
Subs:...1 Simon Lagarde...16 Felix Cardin...33 Amine Meftouh...19 Shady Saleh...28 Samuel Dechantal-Dumont...23 Serge Dinkota...2 Mike Vitulano
team officials:...head coach Phillipe Eullaferoy...assistant coach Celine Quesnel...trainer/physio Victoria Robinson
Game officials:...referee Geoff Gamble...referee's assistants Mike Lambert and Leif Maitland...fourth official Hassatan Rifai...(all black, white and yellow trim)
1st Half:...game starts 8:07pm...PFC defend north end. The weather is cool and the game played on a wet natural grass field with a falling drizzle. There is no working scoreboard so all times are converted from my wristwatch.
30 sec...TRA Augustin cross from 30 yards on right is caught by goalie.
1 min...TRA Cossette 50 yard freekick from left sideline has goalie punch away in crowd of players just inside box.
2 min...TRA Heroux run up right sideline and rolls ball through box near end line that is partially cleared and TRA Cortese shoots low shot from 25 yards that deflects off TRA player at 5 yards well wide left of net.
5 min...PFC goalie catches 55 yard bouncer on TRA kick from left sideline.
8 min...TRA Rumuri flubs shot on edge of PFC box and PFC defender flubs clearance but recovers to keep out of danger.
15 min...TRA Rumuri 35 yard freekick from left has defender head ball away.
16 min...TRA player's 45 yard freekick from left has charging TRA Tissot miss header by about a foot at the 6 yard line.
17 min...PFC Amaral injured on making sliding tackle on charging TRA Heroux at 15 yards on right and leaves field limping in PFC end.
19 min...PFC sub...Brovetto replaces injured Amaral.
19 min...TRA Heroux blast 25 yard shot that deflects over net off PFC Stewart at 15 yards for cornerkick.
20 min...TRA players waste short cornerkick from left side.
21 min...PFC Nida from 30 yard slips in pass up middle and PFC Nogueira tips up shot from 12 yards to hit bar but play is ruled offside.
27 min...PFC player's long throw-in from right is headed from 15 yards and bounces to goalie.
27 min...PFC YELLOW card...Annissi for tugging TRA Heroux rushing down middle at 45 yards.
28 min...TRA players low 45 yard freekick blast rolls to goalie.
29 min...TRA player's 35 yard low shot is smothered by goalie.
30 min...TRA YELLOW card...Tissot for knock down on PFC Brovetto at PFC 25 yards.
31 min...PFC Serrano 25 yard freekick blast from left deflects off player's foot in wall and bounces left for throw-in.
32 min...TRA Louis-Jeune 30 yard shot from right sideline bounces to goalie.
32 min...PFC Leite given pass down middle and his 20 yard one-touch shot is well over net.
35 min...PFC Serrano 35 yard freekick from left is knocked wide right of box.
37 min...PFC Brovetto is knocked over on right end line by TRA Tissot while cutting toward goal.
37 min...PFC McIntosh rolls 20 yard freekick from along end line back to PFC Stewart who blasts 15 yard shot over net.
40 min...TRA goalie charges right in box to dive on ball ahead of charging PFC box.
43 min…Attak James Louis-Jeune GOAL…PFC Jaroslaw Radzinski charges to edge of PFC box to make clearance but misses bouncing ball and Louis-Jeune runs into box and kicks 10 yarder into short right side of net below bar with goalie Mike Silva coming out about 5 yards to right to cut off angle.
46 min...half ends 8:53pm.
2nd Half:...starts 9:09pm...it starts raining harder.
46 min...PFC McIntosh 30 yard freekick from right has defender head ball out of box. PFC Annissi gets pass at 25 yards and chips pass into box that bounces wide right of net.
47 min...PFC Lenton long run up left and cross from 25 yards is caught by goalie on left post.
47 min...PFC McIntosh 50 yard chip from left is well wide left of net.
48 min...TRA Cossette 35 yard chip from left is caught by goalie.
50 min...TRA sub...Dinkota replaces Tissot.
51 min...PFC Serrano 30 yard chip over players down middle is wide left.
52 min...PFC sub...Philip replaces Brovetto.
53 min...TRA goalie catches PFC player's cross from 25 yards near left sideline.
54 min…PFC Joseph Philip is tripped inside Attak box by TRA Dinkota sliding to poke ball away. Referee Geoff Gamble signals for a Penalty kick.
54 min…PFC Gustavo Serrano blasts Penalty kick low to middle of net that goalie Andrei Bedescu dives and stops and turns around while on his knees and smothers ball on goal line. (The ball didn’t trickle over the goal line because of the mud).
58 min...TRA Gosselin has defender poke away ball on rush and wins cornerkick on right.
59 min...TRA sub...Cardin replaces Rumuri.
59 min…Attak Karl Ouimette GOAL...Attak player takes a cornerkick kick from right that Attak Karl Ouimette heads from 6 yards that PFC Kevin McIntosh stops on the line but rebound has Ouimette kick in 7 yard own rebound into left corner of net. PFC goalie had dived forward to play cornerkick.
60 min...PFC Serrano 35 yard freekick from left bounces through box wide right for goalkick.
62 min...TRA goalie charges to grab bouncer on edge of box ahead of charging players.
64 min...TRA player's cross from right is over players in PFC box.
65 min...TRA Cortese gets short pass from right and shoots 30 yarder up middle well over net.
65 min...TRA sub...Vitulano replaces Louis-Jeune.
66 min…PFC RED card…team captain Giovanni Annissi earns his second yellow card for pushing over Attak Cossette just to the left of the PFC box. He picked up his first at 28 minutes for tugging on an Attak player rushing down the middle.
67 min...TRA Cortese 20 yard freekick from left is headed out of box by PFC Philip.
69 min...TRA Cortese long throw-in from 25 yards on left that has TRA Cossette not able to turn in time and pushes ball over end line.
70 min...TRA goalie punts ball downfield and PFC McIntosh checks TRA Gosselin off ball in box.
70 min...TRA YELLOW card...Vitulano for tackle of PFC Leite at PFC 50 yards.
71 min...PFC sub...Pacheco replaces Leite.
72 min...TRA sub...Meftouh replaces Cossette.
73 min...TRA goalie dives to smother ball in box at 10 yards in crowd of players on PFC cornerkick from left.
74 min...PFC Serrano 30 yard blast down middle over players is well over bar.
75 min...TRA sub...Saleh replaces Gosselin.
78 min...TRA Meftouh is tapped over freekick at PFC 22 yards and blasts shot wide left.
80 min…PFC Stewart earns a Yellow card for a high kick in face inside the PFC box on TRA Meftouh into his face and a Penalty kick is awarded.
81 min…Attak Felix Cardin GOAL...Cardin blasts Penalty kick off the right post and the ball deflects left across box wide left of box.
82 min...TRA YELLOW card...TRA Meftouh for blasting ball into stands when ball out of bounds.
83 min...TRA Saleh gets long cross from right sideline in box but he can't control it when bumped by defender and ball cleared.
85 min…Attak Shady Saleh GOAL…Attak Amine Meftouh takes freekick from left and has ball knocked around in the PFC box and Saleh take a low shot from 8 yards through a crowd of players into the net after having his first shot blocked by sliding defender.
86 min...TRA sub...Cechantal-Dumont replaces Heroux.
88 min...PFC goalie charges to edge of box to clear through ball crossed in from left.
90 min...TRA player long run on right and crosses over box to clear on left side.
91 min...TRA YELLOW card...Cortese for body check on PFC Serrano at center line.
92 min...game ends 9:56pm.
Final Score:…..Portugal FC………0……….Trois-Rivieres Attak………3……….
Attendance was about 30 on this cool night with a drizzle falling well before the game started and all during the first half then it becoming a full downpour for all of the second half. I was able to hide out under a canopy but it was placed even with the north goal line so it was hard to see details of what was going on in the south end.
This game was broadcast live on Rogers Community channel.
This was a match up of the first (Attak) and eighth (PFC) place teams and the difference in caliber showed. I thought the rain on the natural grass would be the great equalizer but three events left PFC with no chance. Their most experienced defender Danny Amaral could only go 18 minutes before pulling up lame in the PFC end and had to be subbed; Gustavo Serrano just had to score on that Penalty chance; and PFC had no chance of making a comeback when they went a man down at 66 minutes.
Attak assistant coach Celine Quesnel said the team arrived from Trois-Rivieres at 2:00pm Friday afternoon so they would be well rested for this game. They were returning home immediately after this game and I could see the team bus in the parking lot on my way out of the stadium.
Andrei Badescu earned the shutout for the Attak. I heard before the game that he had not played on their team before but on a message board post it said he'd played nine games this year. The Attak is the team that I have seen the least this year; only my third time whereas every other team I’ve seen between five and eleven times. Actually the last time I saw them was August 14th when they played Portugal FC to a 0-0 tie at Lamport Stadium. David Lamoureux was the goaltender in that game.
Attak's leading scorer Reda Agourram is away with the Canadian national Francophone Game team in Lebanon. He scored 13 goals in the regular season.
The second game in this series will be in Trois-Rivieres next Saturday. Attak hold a 1-0 lead in the series. If Portugal somehow wins that game, a half hour mini game will start immediately following that second game.
Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca
Portugal starters
Attak starters
the ball is knocked out of bounds
midfield action
Portugal Gustavo Serrano gets ready to take Penalty shot.
Attak Andrei Badescu takes a goalkick.
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