July 8, 2018 League 1 Ontario--Toronto Skillz vs Darby FC game review (by Rocket Robin)

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Result and details of the Sunday July 8, 2018 League 1 Ontario League game between Toronto Skillz FC and Darby FC
played at Birchmount Stadium in Scarborough at 5:00pm.

Toronto Skillz (red socks and shirts, black shorts, white numbers)

.......................1 Peter Katsaras
........12 Manssur Mobarak...16 Zamir Mohammad (cpt)...24 Tim Mahabir
17 Mackenzy Kropa...5 Mikael Khalam...21 Carlos Edic...34 Kareem Marzouk...30 Anfal Ekhlas
.................10 Wadohi Fadul...25 Vithunan Sivakumar

Subs:...0 Vikto Lyczywek (gk)...7 Michael Jashan...9 Danial Kahlili...11 Tomas Castaldo
...22 Payman Mohammadzadeh...31 Anorch Jeyathilaka
team officials:...assistant coaches Ian Cummins and Jake Doodnath...manager Wais Azizi
...equipment manager Justin Howell...therapist Monique Wojcik

Darby FC (navy socks, shorts, and numbers, white shirts)

........................1 Matt Zaikos
6 Taejon Mikle-Ryan...3 Vincenzo Sasso...15 Cameron Brooks (cpt)...2 Tajmir Ashraq
11 Mackenzie Roach...5 Raphael Reynolds...8 Adrian Gallo...7 Jemuel Paul
...............10 Kashiff DeJonge...9 LeRohne Young

Subs:...0 Lie Naumoski (gk)...4 Trevor Hill...14 Marcellus Paul...17 Dylan Campbell
...18 Hayden Clarke...21 La'El Daniel...22 Nashon Campbell
team officials:...team head coach David Thorburn...assistant coaches Billy Pachis and Sanford Carabin

Game officials:...referee Vladimir Makarov...referee's assistants Souhail Abdala and George Soliman
...fourth official Victor Ogbechi...(all black uniforms)

First half:...game starts 5:04pm...Skillz defends north end on this hot late afternoon.
2 min...Darby Jemuel Paul shoots 15 yarder from left wide left of net.
3 min...Darby Young rolls ball from 10 yards on left through 6 yard box and Darby DeJonge misses connecting on slide
at 2 yards.
4 min...TS Edic cornerkick from left has TS Mohammad shoot 12 yarder from right that goalie palms over bar.
5 min...TS Edic cornerkick from right is headed out left side of box.
6 min...Darby Ashraq chips cross from left has Darby Roach leap but it's just over his head at 5 yards.
8 min...Darby Mikle-Ryan bumps over TS Fadul run down right but no card is given.
10 min...TS edic 25 yard freekick from right along 5 yard line as Darby defender flick header out right side.
11 min...Durham Brooks 30 yard freekick from right has Darby Reynolds flick 10 yard header in crowd of players
well over net.
15 min...Durham Gallo cornerkick from rleft has defender on near post flick header over box.
19 min...TS Fadul fights off Durham Brooks arm grab to turn in bo on run up right and rolls ball through 6 yard box
and TS Sivakumar rolls 6 yard shot on left post wide left.
20 min...TS Sivakumar cornerkick from left has defender flick header away.
21 min...Darby Young leaps to flick header at 12 yards wide left of net on long cross from right.
22 min...Darby Jemuel Paul cross from 40 yards on left has goalie block Darby Roach first touch at 15 yards.
24 min...Darby Sasso cross from 15 yards on left is headed away in box.
25 min...TS Sivakumar cornerkick from left wins another cornerkick.
25 min...TS Ekhlas cornerkick from left has Darby Brooks as nearest defender clear on left.
26 min...Darby goalie beats TS Fadul to chip into box to grab.
27 min...A water break is called. Also the Darby goalie was ordered to remove a necklace he was wearing.
29 min...play resumes. The scoreboard has been stopped in error so the rest of the first half I've kept from my wristwatch.
31 min...Darby Gallo cornerkick from right has Darby Jemuel Paul duck at 12 yards on right and head ball wide right.
33 min...Darby Jemuel Paul cross from 25 yards on far right is caught by goalie.
37 min...Darby goalie boots mid-air ball a step ahead of TS Sivakumar at 20 yards in middle.
38 min...TS Vithunan Sivakumar GOAL...TS Ekhlas is knocked down by defender in box but Sivakumar following
up rolls 10 yarder from left into right corcner of net past diving goalie.
40 min...Darby Ashraq run down left and rolls pass into box but defender on left clears.
41 min...Darby Gallo low 40 yard freekick from left is a shot rather than pass is wide left of net.
43 min...TS goalie is out to beat Darby Gallo to smother ball at 12 yards.
47 min...Jemuel Paul long run up left keeping it in bounds while eluding checks then pushes if over end line.
49 min...half ends 5:53pm.

Second Half:...starts 6:09pm.
halftime subs:...Darby Daniel replaces Gallo.
.................Darby Marcellus Paul replaces Roach.
46 min...Darby YELLOW card...Young earns it for injury of TS Mohammad ankle inside TS box.
47 min...A Darby chance into the TS box is called offside.
49 min...TS Anfal Ekhlas GOAL...Ekhlas rush down left and shoots 15 yarder on sharp angle and goalie dives
to stop and ball deflecgtcs over him and rolls into net.
52 min...Darby Sasso cornerkick from left has ball headed around in box but cleared. The TS goalie is injured as play
continues on before officials notice.
53 min...TS Edic 40 yard freekick is headed away by Darby Daniel and TS Fadul shoots 30 yard clearance from left
well wide right.
55 min...TS Fadul rolls 35 yarder up middle that goalie smothers.
57 min...TS Vithunan Sivakumar GOAL...Sivakumar gets to ball that had deflected off a defender and at 12 yards
rolls shot from left past sprawling goalie.
59 min...Darby DeJonge pass to Darby Daniel whose shot is stopped.
60 min...Darby Sasso cornerkick from right is just over leaping Darby DeJonge at 6 yards.
62 min...TS sub...Jashan replaces Kropa.
62 min...TS Vithunan Sivakumar GOAL...Sivakumar receives pass down middle from TS Anfal Ekhlas
on a break at 50 yards. He rounds diving goalie at 15 yards and shoots 12 yard roller into short side
of net a step ahead of sliding defender Darby Cameron Brooks who ends up in the back of the net.
70 min...Darby Brooks 33 yard freekick from right is caught by goalie wide left of net on end line behind a group
of players.
71 min...a water break is called.
73 min...play resumes.
75 min...Darby Marcellus Paul GOAL...Darby Jemuel Paul from left edge of box has Marcellus Paul
roll 8 yarder into right side of net beyond diving goalie Peter Katsaras.
75 min...TS sub...Mohammadzadeh replaces Marzouk.
76 min...TS YELLOW card...Mohammad earns it for pushing over Darby Marcellus Paul at TS 20 yard line on right.
77 min...Darby Sasso 28 yard freekick from right is headed away out of box.
78 min...Darby sub...Campbell replaces DeJonge.
.........Darby sub...Hill replaces Sasso.
80 min...Darby Brooks long throw-in from right has defender head ball away.
81 min...TS Sivakumar rolls pass down left for TS Ekhlas but goalie is out to 25 yards to clear for throw-in.
82 min...Darby Reynolds 33 yard freekick from left has TS Jashan on right head away.
83 min...Darby Brooks 30 yard freekick from right is cleared in box.
84 min...TS sub...Jeyathilaka replaces Khalam.
87 min...TS Mahabir makes key clearance in TS box.
88 min...Darby YELLOW card...Reynolds earns it for sliding tackle on TS Edic injurying him at TS 50 yard line.
88 min...Darby sub...Campbell replaces Jemuel Paul.
90 min...TS YELLOW card...Ekhlas earns it for tackle from behind at TS 35 yard line.
96 min...half ends 7:00pm.

Final Score:.....Toronto Skillz FC......4.....Darby FC.......1.........

Attendance was about 50 on this still hot late afternoon.

I hadn't been to Birchmount Stadium this season. They have a countdown scoreboard making it easier for tackle football.
There's still construction being done in their parking lot so that's carried over from last season.

Just as this game was ending a group of about 40 men showed up. Someone asked how I was. I didn't know them but they looked
like soccer players. We had been watching in the distance across the field a group of players in replica Argentina jerseys
play a group in Brazil jerseys with families nearby at picnic tables and using a barbecue. These weren't the same players.
I realized that this group could be waiting to play a CSL game as there is a team from Scarborough. It would be quite
a memory if someone recognized me from over five years ago when I stopped attending their games when L1O got started in 2014.

I did not know until I read the linescores Monday night that today's Sanjaxx goal scorer Atit Hammud Ali also must have made the
trip as he played in the CSL league game scoring a goal for Scarborough SC in their win against previously undefeated
FC Vorkuta. Looking at the Scarborough roster online I see the manager is Kiril Dimitrov who scored a goal for
Unionville Milliken on the Saturday night I attended.

Skillz had scored only twice this season in league play in seven games and won only once. Darby had won two games out of five.
After missing a sitter at 19 minutes Vithunan Sivakumar scored on a follow up shot at 38 minutes then again at 57 and 62 minutes
with Anfal Ekhlas scoring at 49 minutes. Halftime sub Marcellus Paul scored at 75 minutes for Darby as a consolation goal.
Skillz 4-1 win tripled their season goal production in one game! For some reason they were able to feed breakaways and
had 2 on 1s from the center line many times this evening.

Both games on Sunday had the referee schedule water breaks in each half as the temperature though not record breaking this
weekend was too hot for any prolonged activity.

I don't expect any of the four teams I saw today to make the playoff round at the end of September but the teams on paper
were evenly matched. Checking my bingo card off today means in twenty-four games I've now seen all seventeen L1O men's
teams at least twice this season. That was hard to do with all the TFC and TFC II games I attend.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca
twitter @RocketRobin01

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