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Result and details of the League 1 Ontario game of Sunday May 14, 2017 between
Sanjaxx Lions and Windsor TFC Stars played at Monarch Park Stadium in Toronto at 2:00pm.
Sanjaxx Lions (yellow socks and shirts, navy shorts, white numbers)
.................1 Nuno Goncalves
18 Nathanial Rodney-Scarlett...4 Mahamat Ardellatif...20 Demetre Solomos...5 Drai Gordon
25 Stefan Nikolic...9 Hillard Serrao (cpt)...17 Andrew Gordon...16 Kemar Rowe
..........2 Nicholas Charles...22 Antonio Downey
Subs:...01 Tayjon Campbell (gk)...12 Domenico Lacanale...7 Akash Ruhela...19 Jamale Sanca
...14 Julio Carvalho...15 Simon Ailovic...6 Tambe Nfornjock
team officials:...head coach Laz Lowe...assistant coaches Devon Porter, Ramon McIntosh, and Remberto Luna
...manager Nicoletta Bonafede
Windsor TFC Stars red socks and shorts, white shirts, black numbers, red & black vee on chest)
..................1 Kyle Vizirakis
3 Damon Johnson-Holder...16 Patrick Sikora...4 Luke Husbands...7 Stefan Zastavnikovic
14 Martin Nyul...8 Christopher Al-Youssef...11 Bryce Phillips...17 Stephen Ademolu
.............10 Celso Carapau...18 Tyler MacFarlane
*Subs:...2 Anthony Pollock...? Bogdan Siciu...13 Kyle Ruggaber...15 Michael Jonathon Brait
...20 Ciprian Codea...22 Chris Campbell
team officials:...head coach Zibby Piatkiewicz...managers Daryl Muscat and Vancho Cirovski
*although their bench looked like it only had three players with only #13, #20, #22.
Game officials:...Referee Alexis Vaughan...referee's assistants Nikita Amirkhanian and John Vlahos
...fourth official Felip Dukic...(all black uniforms)
1st Half:...game starts 2:00pm...SJ defends west end on this cool afternoon with a gusty wind from the west.
4 min...W Ademolu cross from left near end line is just over head of W Carapau at 6 yards on right post.
6 min...W Husbands 40 yard freekick from left is just wide left of net.
8 min...SJ Solomos cross from 25 yards on left has defender head away from 8 yards in box. SJ Solomos regains ball
and recross has SJ Nikolic jab with raised foot a 10 yarder wide left.
11 min...SJ Serrao gets breakaway at 50 yards up middle and races in and low shot from 25 yards has sliding
goalie get piece of at 15 yards and ball trickles wide right of post.
12 min...SJ Nikolic cornerkick from right has goalie catch on left post between crowd of players.
14 min...SJ Yellow card...Serrao earns it for bumping over W Ademolu at SJ 50 yard line.
15 min...W goalie catches bounced throw-in from right.
19 min...SJ Nikolic 45 yard freekick from left has goalie miss but ball drops and bounces wide right.
20 min...SJ Abdellatif is injured in collision at W 45 yard line.
21 min...SJ Nikolic 50 yard freekick is wide left of net.
22 min...SJ goalie punts ball downfield and has W goalie catch on one high bounce on edge of box
as two SJ players chase in.
24 min...SJ Charles gets to long pass downfield and battling defender pushes ball over end line on right.
25 min...SJ Nikolic quick freekick from 35 yards so quick he puts teammate offside on rolled pass.
26 min...W Ademolu is injured at W 50 yard line.
28 min...Sanjaxx Hillard Serrao GOAL...SJ Andrew Gordon races down left
wing and sends low cross from 25 yards near end line that has
SJ Antonio Downey dummy a shot at 10 yards on left post and Serrao
at 7 yards even with right post kicks ball over sprawling goalie Kyle Vizirakis.
30 min...SJ goalie catches W player's cross from 30 yards on right.
31 min...Sanjaxx Antonio Downey GOAL...Downey is fed through ball
by SJ Kemar Rowe and runs up middle from 45 yards and rolls ball past
goalie sliding at 15 yards into right side of net.
32 min...W MacFarlane on run into left side of box has SJ Rodney-Scarlett poke ball away and he tumbles over
him on clean check.
33 min...WS Martin Nyul is tripped up on right side of box and referee Alexis Vaughan
calls for a Penalty kick.
34 min...Stars Celso Carapau GOAL...Carapau rolls Penalty kick
to right corner of net as goalie Nuno Goncalves crumples in middle.
36 min...W Husbands 45 yard freekick from right has defender clear on edge of box.
40 min...SJ Nikolic 40 yard freekick from left has W Ademolu charge forward and head ball away at 22 yards.
41 min...SJ Nikolic spins around defender at 25 yards on edge of box and rolls
centering cross and SJ Downey has 15 yard shot deflect wide left off defender.
42 min...SJ Nikolic cornerkick from left is over players in box.
44 min...SJ Abdellatif is down with leg injury on edge of SJ box.
47 min...half ends 2:47pm.
2nd Half:...starts 3:01pm.
47 min...W Cararau 25 yard shot from left bounces to goalie.
49 min...Stars Celso Carapau GOAL...WS Martin Nyal sends low cross
from 18 yards on right that has Carapau, between crowd of players,
roof 7 yard shot from middle over sprawling goalie.
50 min...W Zastavnikovic low cross from 20 yards near right end line has defender clear on right post.
52 min...SJ Andrew Gordon first touch too far forward at 30 yards and goalie picks up.
54 min...SJ YELLOW card...Charles earns it for injuring W player near center line sideline.
55 min...SJ Serrao 35 yard shot from right is caught by goalie with two SJ players waiting for pass
in open at 25 yards.
57 min...W sub...Ruggaber replaces MacFarlane.
58 min...W Johnson-Holder throw-in from right has W Ademolu chest down spin and shoot 20 yarder that goalie catches
in center of goal.
60 min...W Ademolu 35 yard freekick from left is just wide right of top corner of net.
62 min...SJ Rodney-Scarlett long throw-in from right has goalie catch in middle of crowd of players.
64 min...W sub...Codea replaces Phillips.
66 min...SJ Serrao pushes past defendedr on run has 22 yard shot from right is stopped by sliding
goalie at 12 yards and SJ Nikolic chips midair rebound from 15 yards down middle over net.
67 min...W goalie catches 50 yard freekick from right.
69 min...SJ defender makes big foot save to stop W Carapau from getting away shot at 15 yards on left.
70 min...SJ sub...Sanca replaces Downey.
71 min...SJ Solomos cross from left end line has goalie catch on right post on bounce.
73 min...W goalie charges out to 25 yards to beat SJ Andrew Gordon to through ball pass sent in from center line.
74 min...SJ player's throw-in from right works its way over to left where WS goalie catches SJ Andrew Gordon short chip shot.
75 min...W Sikora 35 yard freekick from left is wide left of net.
79 min...W sub...Campbell replaces Ademolu.
80 min...SJ Charles cross from 30 yards on right is through box unplayed.
82 min...SJ Solomos squares pass from left to SJ Andrew Gordon whose 22 yard shot up middle is saved.
83 min...W Husbands 50 yard freekick from left has defender on edge of box head away.
84 min...SJ sub...Carvalho replaces Rodney-Scarlett.
85 min...SJ Abdellatif throw-in from right has SJ Carvalho shot stopped.
86 min...W Husbands retreats to knock ball away from SJ Serrao rushing down left.
86 min...SJ Nikolic cross from left has SJ Andrew Gordon shoot 25 yarder up middle that goalie catches.
87 min...W Nyul taps pass at 20 yards back to W Campbell who blasts 25 yarder down middle well over net.
88 min...SJ sub...Ailovic replaces Andrew Gordon.
91 min...SJ Ailovic rolls weak 22 yarder from left to goalie rather than cross to open man in center.
92 min...SJ Rowe is injured at center line.
93 min...W Nyul can't win handball appeal.
94 min...SJ goalie catches ball before W Ruggaber can get to it on right side of box.
95 min...W goalie beats SJ Ailovic to bouncer on left.
95 min...game ends 3:51pm.
Final Score:...Sanjaxx Lions........2......Windsor TFC Stars.....2...
Attendance was about 25 on this cool day with the cover altering between sunny and cloudy about four six during the game. The promotion of 'Mothers Get In Free' (Mother's Day is today) didn't have much effect. Windsor scrambled at the end looking for a winning goal but couldn't win a Penalty kick call in injury time. Referee Alexis Vaughan (who was the fourth official at the USL game at BMO yesterday) gave out three Yellow cards today, all to Sanjaxx players. The game never got rough. The only constant was a continuous gusty wind from the west which effected the team with the wind at their back. Sanjaxx had that advantage in the first half. Goalie punts were sailing from the goalie standing in the west to his opposite number. Freekicks and passes flew or bounced over the east end line regularly. The wind today rivaled KIA Training Centre where Toronto FC III play their home games where I was the last two Sunday afternoons. Only thing is the weather was a lot warmer today. I put down my highlight marker on a bench in the stands and it rolled ten feet on its own before I turned back around. Concrete stands, long wooden planks for each row attached to them to sit on. Capacity of 5000 with stands in the south. Any stands in the north would back right into the high school that Olympic Champion swimmer Penny Oleksiak attends. Sanjaxx looked much improved over last year with a record of two ties and one loss in their three games. Today they found a successful strategy of sending the ball down the middle at least in the first half which might have been aided with the wind in their favour. Lions are again wearing yellow shirts with white numbers which I can't distinguish without binoculars (even worse for night games). Thankfully there's distinctive coloured shoes and hairstyles. Stefan Nikolic equals late 1960s era singer Art Garfunkel with his 'fro'. Captain Hillard Serrao equals shaved head etc. Windsor signed a partnership agreement with Toronto FC less than a year ago and have been re-branded as Windsor TFC. They now wear a modified TFC badge like TFC II with the numerals bent into a 'W'. At least for this road game they wore a white and red kit. I thought I recognized the names of about half the players from last year. I don't expect the changes brought in by TFC to install an academy system will show much change in this first year. Some press announcements listing names of attendees of players to attend TFC's KIA Training Centre are probably a few years younger than this L1O team. Yikes, Stephen Ademolu is now 34 and I watched him play for Windsor back in 2011 when they were in the CSL. Stars record improves to one win, one loss, and one tie. A large stretch of the east-west subway was closed yesterday but not today which got me to come as I hadn't seen either of these team this season. Sanjaxx is once again playing all of its home games this season at Monarch Park in the east end of the old City of Toronto. Most of the housing in the neighbourhood must be nearing the 100 year mark. The area is near trendy The Beaches on Lake Ontario and at least for the day the wind crossed over into this area. The Lions don't have much time to rest as they are scheduled for L1O Cup action on Tuesday night against Woodbridge Strikers who happen to be playing at the same time today as this game against North Toronto Nitros. That makes eight games attended, so far for me--twelve teams out of sixteen seen and the league's only finished its third week. Rocket Robin robing@eol.ca twitter @RocketRobin01
Sanjaxx Lions starters
Windsor TFC Stars starters
Windsor player takes opening kickoff.
midfield action
SJ Stefan Nikolic (25) leads rush up left wing.
SJ Andrew Gordon (17) and Hillard Serrao (9) take second half kickoff.
SJ Andrew Gordon (17) breaks out of own end.
W Johnson-Holder (3) takes throw-in.
SJ Nicholas Charles (2) long throw-in will be caught by goalie.
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