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Result and details of the Friday June 22, 2018 League 1 Ontario Quarterfinal Cup match between Sigma FC and FC London
played at Hershey Fields in Mississauga at 9:00pm.

Sigma FC (blue socks and shirts, black shorts, white numbers)

.....................1 Triston Henry
2 Dionysis Stergiotis...4 Reggie Laryea...3 Dominic Samuel...5 Kyle Walton
..........6 Simon Triantafillou...8 Giuliano Frano (cpt)...20 Mansoor Alfazy
.........10 Justin Stoddart...14 Jelani Smith...7 Kadell Thomas

Subs:...31 Corey Marques (gk)...9 Daniel Jodah...15 Duran Lee...16 Josip Granic
...17 Darren Gordon...21 David Velastegui...22 Christian Samaniego
team officials:...team head coaches Bobby Smymiotis and John Zervos...assistant coach David Igreja
...manager Perry Chadijiioannou...equipment manager Joseph Hanley...therapist Kiran Persad

FC London (white socks and shirts, red shorts, black numbers)

.....................22 Connor Dalton
5 Parker Seymour...4 Tom Coxon...3 Aaron Schneebeli...17 Stephen Al-Sayed
........6 Sean Fawsitt...15 Randy Ribeiro (cpt)...13 Jeremy Arnold
.......19 Benjamin Vyfschaft...23 Connor Wilson...12 Belal Halbouni

Subs:...team head coach Michael Marcocci...assistant coach Eduard Schmidt...therapist Michael Robinson

Game officials:...referee Marko Ristic...referee's assistants Sean Simpson and Kim Lee
...fourth official Braeden Krampert...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

First Half:...game starts 9:01pm...Sigma defends south end on this overcast night so there were low flying
planes overhead. There were pregame drops of rain and a breeze from the south.
2 min...Sigma Justin Stoddart wins Penalty kick when tripped up on run into right side of FCL box.
3 min...Sigma Kyle Walton GOAL...Walton blasts his Penalty kick high to middle of net over sprawling goalie Connor Dalton.
5 min...Sigma Kadell Thomas GOAL...Thomas bends 22 yard in-swinging shot from left into right corner of net.
8 min...FCL player's cornerkick from left has defender on right post flick header wide right for another cornerkick.
8 min...FCL player's cornerkick is short from right to FCL Ribeiro and shoots low 25 yarder that goalie smothers in center of box.
10 min...Sigma Jelani Smith GOAL...Sigma Mansoor Alfazy cornerkick from left has Smith jump in crowd of players
in center of box and flick 6 yard header into top left corner of net.
14 min...Sigma YELLOW card...Alfazy earns it for knockdown just outside Sigma box.
14 min...FCL player's 22 yard freekick from slight left is into player wall. FCL Ribeiro shoots rebound into player wall too.
15 min...Sigma player's cornerkick from right has goalie punch ball away in crowd of players.
17 min...FCL Fawsitt chips 35 yarder from right that bounces to goalie.
19 min...Sigma goalie makes two stand up saves on left post (the second of which was flagged offside).
21 min...Sigma Jelani Smith GOAL...Sigma Kadell Thomas rescues ball on left just outside the box near end line
and taps ball back for Sigma Mansoor Alfazy who rolls ball to center and Smith blasts 22 yarder from left
to top right corner of net.
22 min...FCL Al-Sayed 35 yard freekick from left has goalie catch and he tumbles over FCL Coxon.
24 min...FCL goalie catches 30 yard shot down middle.
25 min...Sigma Frano rolls through pass from 40 yards has goalie out to near edge of box to smother before Sigma Smith can get
to it up middle.
It has now stopped raining.
26 min...FCL Halbouni crashes into Sigma goalie who hangs on to catch ball at 15 yards from left.
28 min...Sigma Justin Stoddart GOAL...Sigma Kyle Walton from 35 yards on left sends low pass to middle
to 20 yards and defender misses and Stoddart slides to beat goalie sliding towards ball too and directs shot
into left side of open net.
30 min...Sigma Walton long throw-in from left has defender head away from left post.
33 min...FCL players have offside flag raised on them again for too many passes working ball into Sigma box.
34 min...Sigma Thomas centers rolling pass to Sigma smith who shoots 22 yarder around defender but high and wide right.
36 min...FCL Vyfschaft freekick from edge of box ffrom slight left is just over bar.
38 min...Sigma Samuel pokes ball away from FCL player at 8 yards on left after pass rolled into box.
39 min...Sigma YELLOW card...Frano earns it for upending FCL player at Sigma 40 yard line.
41 min...Sigma Alfazy cornerkick from left is caught by goalie on left post.
41 min...FCL Arnold has defender check him on edge of Sigma box.
46 min...half ends 9:47pm.

Second Half:...starts 10:03pm...It has started to rain again for a few minutes.
54 min...Sigma Kadell Thomas GOAL...Thomas gets breakaway on left and runs to left edge of box with defender
pushing him from behind but stays up and rolls 15 yard shot under sprawling goalie into net.
56 min...Sigma Thomas rush on left then taps pass to Sigma Smith who shoots low 15 yarder that sprawling goalie tips
wide left of post.
56 min...FCL sub...Nafar replaces Fawsitt.
.........Sigma sub...Velastegui replaces Alfazy.
.........Sigma sub...Samaniego replaces Triantafillou.
57 min...Sigma player's cornerkick from left is cleared from box.
59 min...Sigma sub...Jodah replaces Stoddart.
60 min...Sigma Stergiotis cuts to middle from right but his 25 yard shot tips off defender and bounces to goalie.
61 min...FCL Al-Sayed 25 yard shot from left has goalie palm ball over bar in center.
61 min...FCL player's cornerkick from right has kicker slip and his ball rolls to FCL player who also slips and ball deflects
over end line for goalkick.
63 min...FCL sub...Marsh replaces Halbouni.
.........FCL sub...Gopaul replaces Vyfschaft.
64 min...Sigma goalie is out to 28 yards to clear through ball pass.
64 min...Sigma sub...Lee replaces Walton. (At some point in the game I missed Walton picking up a Yellow card).
66 min...Sigma Thomas long rush up left and cross through box is just a step ahead of sliding Sigma Smith at 6 yards
on right post.
71 min...Sigma sub...Granic replaces Frano.
It's raining yet again.
76 min...Sigma Kadell Thomas GOAL...Sigma Jelani Smith threads pin-point pass from FCL 50 yard line near right
sideline to Thomas at 40 yards in middle and he rushes forward on break and rounds goalie on right and rolls
tough angle shot from 10 yards near end line into net.
76 min...FCL sub...Sneddon replace Wilson.
79 min...Sigma Smith tips shot from 15 yards along left end line but defender clears in 6 yard box.
83 min...Sigma Daniel Jodah GOAL...FCL players get away two shots from just outside the Sigma box that are
both blocked and the second one deflects to Jodah in the open and he runs up left wing alone and
rolls 15 yarder under goalie into right corner of the net.
85 min...FCL Sneddon low 20 yard shot from right has goalie smother.
86 min...FCL Nafar shotts 25 yarder up middle but wide left of post.
89 min...Sigma Velastegui receives centering pass from Sigma Jodah on right and low 20 yard shot is smothered by goalie.
92 min...game ends 10:50pm.

Final Score:...Sigma FC.....8.....FC London.....0......

Attendance was about 80 on this mild but rainy night.  Actually the game started while it was still daylight 
as we're only one day after the summer solstice.  The rain varied between light and stopping completely 
but was at it's hardest at the start of each half.  

Triston Henry earned the shutout for Sigma.  He had to survive twice being flattened and flipped over while 
jumping for high balls in the box.  He had one sequence where he made saves of a shot and a rebound 
within 2 seconds while at 8 yards although the second one was flagged offside. 

Goalie Connor Dalton was playing his first L1O game of the season for London.  Anthony Sokalski who is their 
regular goalie was listed on the game sheets as the backup.  FCL only brought five bench players and I heard 
that some on the roster were from their U-21 team (six I counted)--TFC III they aren't!   FCL plays their 
home games on Friday nights but this was a 3+ hour drive for them as the visitors.  The late start meant 
there were no children here except the ball boys.  

On paper this was the best match of the Quarterfinal with the teams tied for second place in the standings 
with four wins and one tie—FCL also has one loss—however this game was over by the 10 minute mark.  I had 
my mouth open with that “What, What!?” look as those first open play goals were World Cup highlight reel 
calibre.  I'm so used to writing 'over the bar' and 'well wide left or right' or both.  I was here 
on June 2nd when these two teams played and Sigma took until 14 minutes before scoring their first 
in a modest 3-0 win in league play.  

Sigma has a real scoreboard clock now.  L1O chair Dino Rossi was at the game and said he had a few custom 
ones built and imported from China.  It is on trailer wheels and the size of a large flat screen TV.  
It's simple with just the time and home and visitors score but looks better than the previous table-top 
one that I had to squint to see.  He said he also got one for Masters FA.  He also answered my question 
about the Cup draw being completely random and witnessed as it looked funny that Woodbridge and Vaughan 
are meeting on Sunday in the Quarterfinal after meeting in the final the last two years.  It was all drawn 
at once like a tennis bracket for convenience sake.  

Marcel Zajac is still absent from Sigma.  He still hangs on to the league scoring lead with seven goals 
although he hasn't played since I saw him go down at 2 minute mark of their June 9th game against Sanjaxx.  

Daniel Jodah played in his first full game this season.  I remember him from the TFC Academy over 
the years.  He played for Sigma last year and the TFCA PDL team in 2016 while attending 
Marshall University in NCAA.  

This was also the first game this season for Jelani Smith.  I watched him and his brother Jamaal play 
for Canadian Lions of the CSL in 2007 (I needed Wikipedia help for that fact but they linked to my report!).  
He was born in 1991.  His older brother was the winner of the sham/publicity stunt open tryouts 
for MLS Toronto FC in early 2007 while attending York University.  

Sigma moves on to the semifinals and plays the winner of tonight's 8:30pm match at Victoria Park 
in Brampton between ProStars FC vs Toronto FC III.  

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca
twitter @RocketRobin01  
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Sigma FC starters 
 

  
FC London starters 
 

  
Sigma player takes opening kickoff. 
 

  
Sigma Kyle Walton (5) lines up Penalty kick. 
 

 
FCL players on left side of Sigma box. 
 

  
FCL Sean Fawsitt (6) takes throw-in. 
 

  
FCL Connor Wilson (23) takes second half kickoff. 
 

  
midfield action  
 

  
Sigma players try to work ball into FCL box.
 
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