July 8, 2017 League 1 Ontario--Master's FA Saints vs Pro Stars FC (by Rocket Robin)

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Result and details of the Saturday July 8, 2017 League 1 Ontario game between
Master's FA Saints and Pro Stars FC played at L'Amoreaux Park in Scarborough at 1:00pm.

Master's FA Saints (red socks, shorts, and shirts, white numbers and shoulders)

..................0 Daniel Gosciniak
.........16 Randy Durand Miyenga...5 Eddy Dabire...7 Claude Dufour-Peters
3 Yasin Shahwan...6 David Alva...20 Maleik DeFreitas...19 Devonte Brown...30 Marcus Malcom
.............10 Joey Melo...70 Jose De Sousa

Subs:...99 Aaron Peters (gk)...4 Kevin Dhillon...2 Shawn Brown....9 Isaiah Page
...8 Cisco Thomas...17 Jonathan Amoo...12 Camarri Johnson
team officials: head coach Rick Titus...other game officials Junior Groves, Coach Mason,
Tajlor Plaja, Randy Olsen, and Norm Lee

Pro Stars FC (all white uniforms, blue numbers)

..................1 Jonathan Albanese
16 Briam Lopez...3 Georege Owusu...4 Jack Crawford (cpt)...7 Nathanial McAuley
11 Navid Rahman...5 Muhammed Ashim... 6 Uday Arora...10 Adel Rahman...8 Owen Carter
..................9 Kibwe Dyer

Subs:...22 Justin Barrett (gk)...12 Nassim Kamli...13 Jonathan Majoris...14 Marco Polancec-Marin
...15 Jeremy Jodah...17 Silas Obeng
team officials:...head coach Josef Komlodi...assistant coach Indrit Fortuzi
...other team officials Danny Costa and Gordana Polancec-Marin

Game officials:...referee Alexis Vaughan...referee's assistants Armando Pereira and Twayne Anderson
...fourth official Kuizan Weekes...(all black uniforms)

1st Half:...game starts 1:02pm...MFA defends south end on this mild, sunny day (from the south)
with a strong crossfield wind from the west.
2 min...PS Arora run down right and cross from 22 yards near end line is into outside webbing of net.
3 min...MFA De Sousa rush up left but 25 yard cross is over box.
4 min...PS Arora pass forward to PS Lopez but rolls it over end line on right.
7 min...MFA DeFreitas 22 yard freekick from left is blasted well over net.
10 min...MFA De Sousa low cross from 25 yards has defender stop and clear.
11 min...PS Lopez is injured on foot to stomach at PS 28 yard line.
16 min...PS Adel Rahman rolls pass into box by right and MFA Melo slides to block and trailing hand
tounces ball but no Penalty kick is called.
16 min...PS Arora cross from right is blocked by defender.
19 min...PS Dyer gets through ball pass on right and 15 yard shot has flying goalie push ball wide left
and defender clears.
21 min...PS player's 35 yard freekick down middle has defender ensure PS Dyer doesn't get away kick.
22 min...PS Adel Rahman cornerkick from right has defender head ball away. PS Carter blasts 30 yard partial
clearance from left is over net.
25 min...MFA De Sousa 25 yard freekick from right is bent high and wide right of top corner of net.
26 min...PS Adel Rahman leaves freld with bloody arm.
27 min...MFA Devonte Brown 10 yard cross from loeft has defender head ball away from 6 yard box.
29 min...MFA Devonte Brown GOAL...MFA Joey Melo passes ball up middle from 35 yards to Brown at 25 yards
and he lobs 20 yard shot down middle into top left over flying goalie Jonathan Albanese.
30 min...MFA YELLOW card...Durand Mayenga earns it for flattening PS Arora at MFA 45 yard line.
31 min...PS Lopez 50 yard freekick from right is caught by goalie behind crowd of players.
33 min...PS Adel Rahman chips pass up middle and PS Dyer rushes 30 yard shot well over net.
36 min...MFA De Sousa short cross in box from left has defender clear.
38 min...MFA Shahwan is checked off ball on right of box.
40 min...MFA players cross from right has PS Lopez give up cornerkick.
40 min...MFA Melo cornerkick from right is knocked around in box and MFA De Sousa shoots 22 yarder well over net.
42 min...MFA De Freiitas 30 yard freekick from left is through box and PS players start fast break up other side.
45 min...MFA Melo and De Sousa on give and go player but De Sousa rolls ball too far forward and goalie grabs.
47 min...half ends 1:49pm.

2nd Half:...starts 2:04pm.
49 min...MFA De Sousa receives tapped pass and rolls 25 yarder that's saved.
49 min...PS Dyer cross from left side of box to PS Adel Rahman who shoots 15 yarder from right well over net.
50 min...MFA Shahwan run to bouncing ball and shoots 25 yarder from right is wide riight. MFA Durour-Peters
is injured at PS 50 yard line.
51 min...MFA sub...Shawn Brown replaces injured Durour-Peters.
52 min...PS YELLOW card...Owusu earns it for tackle at PS 22 yards.
53 min...MFA Joey Melo GOAL...Melo blasts 22 yard freekick from left into top right corner of net.
54 min...PS sub...Jodah replaces Carter.
........MFA sub...Amoo replaces Shahwan.
55 min...MFA De Sousa rush to left end line and 20 yard cross has defender head down and clear from 6 yard box.
57 min...MFA De Sousa 40 yard freekick from right has flying MFA Melo get 15 yard header and wins cornerkick.
58 min...MFA Melo cornerkick from left has defender clear in box.
59 min...MFA Alva ends MFA play with 30 yard chip down middle that's caught by goalie. MFA Devonte Brown had deked
three guys on 60 yard run up on left.
60 min...PS Adel Rahman run on right and low shot into outside webbing of net from 18 yards from far right.
61 min...MFA sub...Dhillon replaces DeFreiitas.
62 min...MFA Shawn Brown on right end line pass back to MFA player who has shot blocked on edge of box.
63 min...MFA Melo cutting to center blasts 30 yarder after center from left wide right of post.
64 min...MFA Shawn Brown is muscled off ball in box for PS player to clear.
65 min...PS Ashim rolls pass forward from 40 yards for PS McAuley getting around defender but goalie is out
to 20 yards to clear.
67 min...PS sub...Obeng replaces Navid Rahman.
68 min...PS RED card...George Owusu earns his second Yellow card within 16 minutes for a body check tackle
at PS 40 yard line as players played a loose ball.
70 min...MFA sub...Thomas replaces Durand Miyenga.
71 min...MFA Dhillon 45 yard freekick from left has defender clear with header on edge of box.
71 min...PS Dyer run on left and holding off defender and rolls ball from 5 yards along end line that defender
clears on left post.
72 min...PS Adel Rahman receives cross from right end line and blasts 10 yarder up middle off underside of bar
and defender clears.
72 min...MFA Melo low 35 yard shot is just wide left of post.
73 min...MFS sub...Page replaces Devonte Brown.
76 min...MFA Melo cornerkick from right has MFA De Sousa head 12 yarder on left wide left of post.
77 min...MFA Page dribbles from 35 yards on left into middle of box and rolls 8 yarder to goalie.
78 min...MFA Melo 30 yard freekick from far left has MFA Amoo charge in on right to connect 8 yard shot wide right.
81 min...PS sub...Polancec-Mann replaces Ashim.
82 min...PS Dyer on 2 on 2 break rolls pass but defender breaks it up.
83 min...MFA Melo works out quick cornerkick from left but wasted as it never gets into box.
84 min...PS goalie dives on ball at 8 yards to smother in front of MFA Page.
84 min...MFA player run to right end line. MFA Amoo shoots low 28 yarder from right that goalie smothers.
85 min...PS Polancec-Marin receives cross from right and one-touch 18 yarder wide left of net.
86 min...PS Dyer gets away centering cross from left end line that defender MFA Dabire clears. PS Dyer
is injured on the twist he made.
88 min...MFA Melo 33 yard freekick from left bounces into 6 yard box and goalie punches through wide right.
89 min...MFA De Sousa cornerkick from left that bounces through box unplayed.
90 min...MFA Melo has shot blocked on edge of box.
91 min...MFA YELLOW card...Page earns it for kicking ball away after freekick whistle at PS 35 yard line.
93 min...PS goalie dives for ball and pushes for cornerkick ahead of charging PS Obeng.
94 min...MFA Thomas cornerkick from right has players head around on left side of box but ball is cleared.
95 min...MFA De Sousa blasts 20 yard shot from left that sliding goalie saves off his face!
{Late News: He actually broke his nose on that play].
95 min...PS sub...Jodah was going to replace Adel Rahman but game ended before sub made.

Final Score:....Master's FA Saints.....2...Pro Stars FC......0....

Attendance was about 40 on this mild and sunny early afternoon wth a strong 
crossfield wind from the west.  A young Master's boys team had just beaten 
the DeRo Academy before the L1O teams took the field for warm ups.  
Dwayne De Rosario was coaching his own academy team.  I'm sure there's some 
'insert big star name here' Academy where the namesake only shows up at the 
year end dinner.  Of course when kids' teams play because of parents and 
families there's always triple the attendance but few stayed for 
the adults' game.  

Daniel Gosciniak earned the shutout for Master's.  He had a few stops to make 
but mostly the defenders covered the box for him and ProStars forwards 
shot off target.  

Jonathan Albanese had much more to do in net for Pro Stars including a second 
half injury time save where MFA Jose De Sousa blasted a low 20 yarder that 
the sliding goalie saved at 12 yards off his face.  He needed treatment for 
a bloody nose and the referee decided that was a good time to blow the 
whistle to end the game.  

Referee Alexis Vaughan gave out four Yellow cards (two to Pro Stars 
and they were both to the same player).   Master's had far more scoring 
chances but kept Pro Stars in the game as they didn't put them away.  
72 minutes was Pro Stars best chance of the game when Adel Rahman received 
a cross from the right end line at 10 yards in the middle and he blasted 
a shot off the underside of the bar and a defender cleared.

Master's team from a brief scan of year of birth from the game sheets averaged 
five years older than Pro Stars.  Master's is another team with mature 
twenty-something players that in my opinion are just waiting to move to the
CanPrem league when it starts as soon as next year.  

Master's win improves their record to 4 wins, 5 losses, 2 ties for 14 points 
and are fifth of eight teams in the Eastern Conference.

Pro Stars loss moves their record to 0 wins, 9 losses, 1 tie for 1 point 
and are eighth in the West.  This was actually a better defensive effort 
than their average.  Including today's totals, they've allowed 40 goals 
against in their ten games.

I don't go out to L1O games if they are the same day as TFC and TFC II games 
but I wanted to see Pro Stars today.  This is the second time this season 
I've seen this Brampton area team.  This means that in the league's eleventh 
week of the season I've seen all sixteen men's teams at least twice in the 
twenty-four games I've attended.  What next?  Well I'm not that far off 
being able to say 'seen every team three times'.  

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca
twitter @RocketRobin01

Master's FA Saints starters