June 25, 2017 League 1 Ontario--Woodbridge Strikers vs FC London (by Rocket Robin)

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Result and details of the Sunday June 25, 2017 League 1 Ontario game between
Woodbridge Strikers and FC London played at Vaughan Grove in Vaughan at 7:00pm.

Woodbridge Strikers (all blue, white numbers)

.....................1 Quillan Roberts
2 Quante Abbott-Hill-Smith...4 Franesco Sinopoli...5 Michael Fayehum...3 Kyle Watson
17 Emmanuel Issac...8 Oscar Cordon...16 Dylan Carreiro (cpt)...6 Joshua Paredes-Proctor
...............9 Milan Beader...10 Christian Cavallini

Subs:...12 Mchael Scavone (gk)...13 Kyler Smalling...19 Stefano Voci...20 Luca Baldassarre
...21 Claudio Sereno...24 Domenico Futia...25 Kareem Samuels
team officials:...team head coach Peter Pinizzotto...assistant coach Marco Reda...manager John Scarlato
...equipment manager Amadeo Pellegrino...therapist Justin Miranda suspended player: Stephen Almeida

FC London (navy socks and shorts, white shirts, green numbers)

......................25 Aaron McMurray
...........17 Stephen Al-Sayed...42 Aaron Schneebeli...15 Randy Ribeiro
2 Sean Fawsitt...14 Chad Gopaul...6 Sandro Rajkovic...5 Mark Serjeant...18 Patrick Melo
,,,,,,,,,,,.....23 Connor Wilson...10 Elvir Gigolaj (cpt)

Subs:...1 Anthony Sokalski (gk)...4 Tom Coxon...8 Mohammad Reza Nafar...11 Bai-Essa Coker
...12 Albert Barquin...44 Amin Nafar...92 Braeden Gee "Moose"
team officials:...team head coach Domagoj Kosic...manager David Goigitzer...assistant coach Eduard Scmidt

Game offcials:...referee Lukasz Kowalewski...referee's assistants Braedon Krampert and Twayne Anderson
...fourth official Bradley Doubrough...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

1st Half:...game starts 7:01pm...WS defend south end on this warm evening wth a bright sun in the north west.
6 min...FCL Wilson and Gigolaj on give and go through middle but Gigolaj rolls ball too far forward for Wilson
at 20 yards and ball rolls to goalie.
9 min...FCL Fawsitt long throw-in from right has FCL Gopaul run into box but he's checked off ball by defender.
10 min...FCL goalie beats WS Cavallin at 40 yards to clear ball. WS Paredes-Proctor then chips goalie off his line
at 40 yards but is wide left.
11 min...WS player runs down left side and sends low cross to middle where another WS player has 25 yard shot blocked.
12 min...WS Cavallini 40 yard shot down mdidle has retreating goalie catch at 10 yards.
14 min...WS Sinopolii is injured in collision with FCL Gigolaj at WS 50 yard line.
17 min...WS Carreiro chips pass from 30 yards up middle but just a step behind WS Issac and ball bounces wide right
over end line.
18 min...WS Carreiro cornerkick from left is over to center that has WS Paredes-Proctor blast 25 yarder up middle
that defender blocks.
19 min...WS Carreiro cornerkick from left has defenders clear out right side of box.
22 min...WS Carreiro cornerkick from right wins another cornerkick.
22 min...WS Carreiro cornerkick from right is headed across box and goalie leaps to palm ball left for another
cornerkick.
24 min...FCL Elvir Gigolaj GOAL...FCL Sandro Rajkovic receives short forward pass
at center line and runs down the middle but is caught by two retreating defenders
and pushes pass to right for charging Gigolaj who continues run from 30 yard line
and shoots 20 yarder from right into short right side of net past diving goalie Quillan Roberts.
27 min...WS Carreiro 40 yard freekick from righthas defender head away from box.
27 min...FCL Gopaul long run down right wing and rolls centering ball but defender clears.
28 min...FCL Gigolaj beats offside trap at 45 yards and race down right. He chips 25 yarder over goalie but ball is wide left of net.
30 min...WS Carreiro run down left and low pass forward has goalie run forward to pick up ball at 15 yards ahead
of WS Beader.
31 min...WS Cavallini run down left to get to pass, he runs along 20 yard line and cuts low shot that's blocked
by defender.
34 min...WS Carreiro on left cuts along 25 yard line to middle and he has his shot blocked.
35 min...The referee has a long conference with the fourth official and WS manager John Scarlato is ejected.
.........WS YELLOW card...Carreiro earns it on play that ends with WS being awarded a throw-in near the center line.
39 min...WS YELLOW card...Cordon earns it for throwing ball away after FCL are given a freekick.
40 min...WS Beader falls on his own running into right side of box and loses possession after long run.
42 min...FCL Gopaul flicks pass to FCL Gigolaj but goalie catches on bounce.
44 min...WS Carreiro cross to WS Beader and his 20 yard shot is blocked by sliding defender. WS player shoots rebound
from 12 yards that hits the same fallen defender.
45 min...FCL Gigolaj rush down right and retreating WS Sinopoli slides in to poke away ball at 15 yards giving
up cornerkick.
46 min...FCL work out short cornerkick and FCL Gigolaj cross into box is cleared.
46 min...FCL Gigolaj cross from 30 yards has FCL Fawsitt pop header from 18 yards over net.
47 min...FCL Al-Sayed is injured at WS 50 yard lne but WS players play on upfield.
47 min...half ends 7:48pm.

2nd Half:...starts 8:04pm.
45 min...WS Issac has 20 yard shot blocked.
46 min...WS Paredes-Procter 30 yard freekick from right has defender head ball away in crowd of players on left
side of box.
47 min...WS Abbott-Hill-Smith run down right and first cross is blocked and second one from end line has ball sail
across 6 yard box unplayed.
50 min...FCL YELLOW card...Ribeiro earns it for knocking down WS Carreiro at FCL 40 yard line.
50 min...WS Carreiro 40 yard freekick down middle has WS Watson charging up to right post not fully able to connect
and ball is wide right for goalkick.
52 min...FCL goalie Aaron McMurray slides at 10 yards near left end line that
trips up a WS player. Referee Lukasz Kowalewski calls for a Penalty kick.
53 min...WS Dylan Carreiro GOAL...Carreiro shoots Penalty kick low to left corner
of net under diving goalie.
55 min...WS Beader long run up middle on 2 on 1 and low 22 yard shot is stopped point blank by sprawling goalie
at 15 yards.
56 min...FCL sub...Nafar replaces Gopaul.
58 min...FCL sub...Sokalski replaces McMurray.
.........WS sub...Baldassarre replaces Beader.
59 min...WS Baldassare run to end line on right and low cross has defender slide to stop.
60 min...WS Carreiro cornerkick from right has WS player head 8 yarder in crowd of players that goalie swats away.
62 min...WS Sinopoli 50 yard chip from rght is caught by goalie at 15 yards beating WS player.
63 min...WS Cavallini recovers ball on defender's trip and pass to right has WS Issac get 18 yard shot stopped
by sprawling goalie at 6 yards.
65 min...WS Baldassarre gets cross in middle on edge of box but is checked off ball without getting a shot.
66 min...FCL Rajkovic rolls 15 yard shot in crowd of players wide right of net.
66 min...WS sub...Voci replaces Issac.
68 min...FCL goalie is out to 12 yards to make catch ahead of WS forward on chip pass attempt.
69 min...WS Voci cross from 25 yards near right end line is over box and cleared.
70 min...WS Voci run to right end line and cross has goalie fly left to make catch.
72 min...WS Paredes-Procter dekes defender sliding at 40 yards and beats another defender on edge of box but
has that defender stop him.
73 min...FCL sub...Barquin replaces Fawsitt.
75 min...FCL defender heads WS cross for cornerkick.
75 min...WS Carreiro cornerkick from right has WS player head 8 yarder into net but play is called back as a hand ball.
76 min...FCL Gigolaj gets breakaway on left from 35 yards but goalie slides at 15 yards and Gigolaj pushes ball past
him and runs over end line as retreating defender cuts into his angle.
78 min...FCL sub...Coker replaces Rajkovic.
79 min...FCL goalie beats WS forward to dive on ball at 10 yards on right.
80 min...WS Carreiro cornerkick from right has goalie catch overhead on left post.
81 min...WS Cordon is injured on previous play at center line.
82 min...WS sub...Futia replaces injured Cordon before play resumes.
84 min...WS Voci is checked off ball on right edge of box by three player squeeze.
86 min...WS Carreiro 25 yard freekick down middle hits underside of crossbar and goalie swats ball away.
87 min...FCL Gigolaj beats WS Abbott-Hill-Smith and has shot blocked by another defender.
88 min...FCL Gigolaj and FCL Barquin are both injured in WS end.
89 min...FCL sub...Gee replaces Gigolaj who is still injured.
90 min...FCL defender prevents WS Voci from getting shot on right side of box.
92 min...WS Baldassarre low 15 yard shot up middle has goalie dive to save.
93 min...WS player taps pass back but defender clears from box.
94 min...WS Baldassarre leaps to pop 12 yard header from left over the bar.
94 min...game ends 8:53pm.

Final Score:.....Woodbridge Strikers.....1....FC London.....1....

Attendance was about 200 on this warm and sunny evening. It still wasn't dark 
by the time the game ended. I'd been at the Vaughan vs Windsor in the afternoon 
and fans went through a rain storm and hailstorm besides overcast and sun all 
within two hours so it was nice to have the weather stay consistent 
for two hours.

A lot of action after the tying goal although it could have been part 
of anywhere in the game. Woodbridge overall had more chances for the 
ninety minutes. 55 minutes had WS Milan Beader make a long run up the middle 
on a 2 on 1 rush and his low 22 yard shot was stopped point blank by the 
sprawling goalie at 15 yards. At 58 minutes FCL switched goalies with 
Anthony Sokalski replacing starter Aaron McMurray. It didn't look like there 
was any injury for the swap. McMurray was more aggressive with him coming 
out up to 40 yards to make a clearance. 63 minutes had WS Christian Cavallini 
recover a ball on a defender tripping on his own and he passed to the right 
and WS Emmanuel Issac get an 18 yard shot that was stopped by the sprawling 
goalie at 6 yards in WS's fourth chance in the five minutes since the switch. 
76 minutes had FCL Elvir Gigolaj get a breakaway on the left from 35 yards 
but goalie Quillan Roberts slid at 15 yards and Gigolaj pushed the ball 
past him and ran to the end line to recover but by then a defender cut over 
to block his angle. 86 minutes had WS Dylan Carreiro take a 25 yard freekick 
down the middle that hit the underside of the cross bar and the goalie flew 
back and swatted it away. Injury time had WS Luca Baldassarre take 
a low 15 yarder up the middle that the goalie dove to save. Two minutes 
later Baldassarre jumped to pop a 12 yard header from the left over the bar. 
Nope..gonna be a tie tonight.

FC London brought a mid-size charter bus tonight. They not only had a full 
bench but it looked like they had about two or three extra guys watching 
from the stands. After watching the Windsor TFC Stars team get to the GTA 
today in what must have been the car pool from hell—an empty bench until 
just before game time, and almost two hours further away south west than 
the three hour plus drive from London, a bus is the better way to travel 
for long distance drives.

Referee Lukasz Kowalewski gave out two Yellow cards to each team plus 
awarding Shooters a Penalty kick. He also ejected manager John Scarlato 
from the Woodbridge bench right after giving a Yellow card 
to WS Dylan Carreiro at 35 minutes within a few yards of their bench 
so it must have been for some kind of dissent.

A large L1O sized crowd tonight was nice. There were a strange collection 
of hecklers. A group of player-age guys wearing Croatia garb. The checker 
patterns of the national team, club teams, and there could have even been 
Toronto Croatia gear were singing and laughing out for referee's assistant 
Braeden Krampert but lucky for him he was on the far side of the field 
so wouldn't be able to hear them well. Also a family group were heckling 
WS cornerback Quante Abbott-Hill-Smith on almost every play. It started 
to make sense later when they answered me they were here to cheer 
on Kyler Smalling who the father said was an 'oh-one'--hmm that would 
make him age 15 or 16 and waiting to make his L1O debut. He was 
an unused sub.

**Late addition:  I found some of my old reports and Braeden Krampert
played for both Toronto Croatia and Hamilton Croatia in the 2009 and
2010 season so that may explain the 'fans'.  

It turns out that this game was a rematch from Wednesday night where 
these two teams playing here with Woodbridge winning a second round 
L1O Cup match by a 3-0 score. That would have been a strange evening 
as at the Ontario Soccer Centre which is only about four football 
fields away, Vaughan Azzurri (who usually play at McNaughton Turf about 
25 km away) were beating Master's FA Saints 6-1 with exactly the same 
starting time.

Woodbridge and Vaughan met in last year's L1O Cup final. We are now down 
to the semi-finals so it could happen again. It can't be for the league 
championship because both teams are in the 'Eastern Conference' although 
both are west of Yonge Street but they were divvied out this way when 
the league was organized to ensure two strong conferences.

Woodbridge's record improves to 7 wins, 1 loss and now 1 tie for 22 points. 
That's still good enough to hang on to first place in the East but they 
lose ground to Vaughan who closes to 19 points to a tie for second place 
(after beating Windsor) with North Toronto Nitros who lost earlier today.

FC London improve to 3 wins, 2 losses, 3 ties for 12 points for fourth 
place in the West but they have exactly half the points of first place 
Oakville Blue Devils at almost the halfway point of the season. 
Only playoffs are the first place teams in the East and West 
in a one game final for the championship.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca
twitter RocketRobin01

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