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Result and details of the Saturday July 14, 2018 League 1 Ontario League game between North Mississauga Panthers and Toronto Skillz FC
played at Hershey Centre in Mississauga at 8:00pm.

North Mississauga Panthers (all white, black numbers)

.......................30 Spyro Stergiotis
17 Jesse Bibby...14 Jaroslaw Radzinski...6 Endri Begaj...3 Anthony Wright
4 Marko Bedenikovic...8 Damion Scott...10 Lee-Victor Massunda...2 Sundin Esperance
...............7 Chris Simm...9 Rahim Thorpe

Subs:...1 Gereon Bayer (gk)...11 Francis Ameyaw...12 Emilio Estevez...13 Yousef Helmy
...15 Rick Russo...16 Adam LoFranco
team officials:...team head coach Sam Medeiros...assistant coach Volen Parashkevov...managers Christopher Keem and Martine Eleuteri
...equipment manager Patrick Guirguis...therapist Katie Bartley

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

........................1 Peter Katsaras
12 Manssur Mobarak...5 Mikael Khalam...16 Zamir Mohammad (cpt)...24 Tim Mahabir
..........10 Wadohi Fadul...21 Carlos Edic...34 Kareem Marzouk
..........30 Anfal Ekhlas...25 Vithunan Sivakumar...7 Michael Jashan

Subs:...0 Viktor Lyczywek (gk)...11 Tomas Castaldo...17 Mackenzy Kropa...19 Elijah Manchester
...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

Game officials:...referee Marc Henoud...referee's assistants Brian Butler and George Soliman
...fourth official Kim Lee...(yellow shirts, black shorts and shoes)

First Half:...game starts 8:00pm...North Mississauga defends north end on this overcast and mild evening with no planes
flying overhead I suppose because of the overhanging clouds.
1 min...TS Mahabir heads away NMP players cross into box.
1 min...TS Jashan runs down left and ctus along 10 yard line and long low cross to TS Marzouk who shoots off target
from 20 yards.
5 min...TS Edic 38 yard freekick up middle is over player wall and NMP Bibby heads away while surrounded by four TS players
at 7 yards on left.
6 min...TS goalie leaps to bat away ball from NMP Esperance cross.
7 min...TS goalie beats NMP Thorpe from getting to blocked shot from 12 yards.
8 min...NMP Esperance long run up left while even with defender and shoots 25 yarder well over net.
9 min...NMP Esperance cross from 25 yards on far left has NMP Thorpe in middle leaps and heads 10 yarder wide left of post.
10 min...TS Sivakumar stubs 15 yard shot weakly to goalie.
11 min...NMP Beredenikovic 40 yard freekick from left drops in box but defender clears.
12 min...NMP Simm high cross from 25 yards on right has defender head away.
14 min...NMP Simm run on right after quick throw-in and cross into box wins cornerkick.
15 min...NMP Bedenikovic cornerkick on left has defender stop and clear.
16 min...NMP Bedenikovic cornerkick from left is short and NMP Simm cross is tipped for NMP throw-in.
17 min...TS Sivakumar rolls pass forward that defender sheppards out before TS Jashan can get to on left end line.
20 min...TS Jashan rush from center and 25 yard shot from slight right misses top left corner of net.
22 min...NMP Scott juggles cross from left receiving it at 15 yards but easy shot is caught by goalie.
22 min...NMP Massunda eludes defender to get 10 yard shot from sharp left that goalie stops on near post. Massunda
blasts 10 yard rebound when goalie also stops.
23 min...NMP goalie out to edge of box to beat TS Sivakumar to through ball into box.
24 min...NMP Simm rush down right and high cross is over two fallen players on left side of box. The referee makes no call.
26 min...NMP Thorpe recovers TS players popped up header but another defender clears potential shot in box.
28 min...The TS goalie is now staring into the setting sun.
29 min...TS Sivakumar run down left and cross is popped up in box is called offside.
32 min...NMP Simm is upended by TS Mahabir on top right cocrner of box.
33 min...NMP Esperance 20 yard freekick from top right corner into three man wall and NMP Bedenikovic rebound shot
from 22 yards is also into wall.
35 min...NMP Thorpe is upended when TS player jumps over him to make header at TS 25 yard line.
36 min...NMP Bedenikovic low 25 yard freekick up middle is bounced wide left of net.
37 min...NMP YELLOW card...Bedenikovic earns it for clip on TS Sivakumar cutting away.
37 min...TS Edic 30 yard freekick from left has defender slide at 10 yards in box to stop and teammate clears.
38 min...NMP Rahim Thorpe GOAL...Skillz Manssur Mobarak player takes a freekick from his own 35 yard line near left
sideline but pivots and sends ball back towards goalie Peter Katsaras but instead Thorpe intercepts at 30 yard line on left
and runs forward and shoots low 22 yarder past goalie at 15 yards and into right corner of net.
43 min...TS Edic chips 33 yarder from left has goalie catch in front of two offside flagged TS players on right post.
45 min...TS Jashan passes forward on left to TS Sivakumar and his low cross is pinballed off defenders.
46 min...half ends 8:46pm.

Second Half:...starts 9:03pm...the sun is now below the horizon.
halftime sub:...NMP Helmy replaces Scott.
47 min...NMP Simm run on right eludes defender at 20 yards and rolls ball past goalie standing at 7 yards but wide left
of post from sharp angle.
49 min...NMP Thorpe rush in from 50 yards cutting to right and 20 yard shot has goalie push ball wide right.
52 min...NMP Bedenikovic cross from right side of box has TS Khalam head ball wide right from 8 yards in middle.
53 min...NMP sub...Estevez replaces Thorpe.
56 min...TS sub...Kropa replaces Khalam.
57 min...TS Marzouk rush down right ahnd rolls ball into box but over end line.
57 min...NMP player makes sloppy pass through own box but TS can't capitalize.
58 min...TS Ekhlas cornerkick from left is high and TS Ekhlas can't completely turn header so ball continue wide right for goalkick.
60 min...TS Ekhlas long run but is checked off ball on edge of NMP box.
61 min...TS Ekhlas is checked off ball on left side of box by defender.
62 min...NMP sub...Ameyah replaces Simm.
63 min...NMP goalie smothers 25 yard roller sent in from left.
65 min...NMP Bedenikovic freekick from 35 yards up middle is between players has goalie catch by leaning left.
66 min...TS Marzouk races for long pass and 25 yard shot from right is saved by goalie diving to left. Marzouk is injured on play
colliding with defender.
67 min...TS Marzouk is injured again. The referee helps him walk off the field until he collapses again. The trainer helps him the
rest of the way.
69 min...TS sub...Castaldo replaces injured Marzouk.
70 min...TS Castaldo rush on right has low cross smothered by goalie diving forward a split second before TS player can connect.
71 min...NMP sub...Habibzi replaces Wright.
71 min...TS Fadul on a 2 on 1 rush has low 20 yard shot smotherd by goalie.
72 min...TS YELLOW card...Edic earns it for tackle at NMP 50 yard line.
73 min...TS Kropa receives cetnering pass and 28 yard blast up middle is high and wide right.
74 min...NMP Massunda steals ball off defender and rush on right and survives jostle by that defender to chip 18 yarder on right
over goalie but also bar.
77 min...TS YELLOW card...Mohammad earns on delayed call OR dissent.
78 min...TS sub...Manchester replaces Fadul.
78 min...TS YELLOW card... Castaldo earns it for dissent.
79 min...NMP Bedenikovic cornerkick from left has defender on left deflect into mesh of net for another cornerkick.
79 min...NMP Bedenikovic cornerkick from left is high and bounces wide right for goalkick.
80 min...NMP Massunda 25 yard shot up middle is high over net.
82 min...NMP Marko Bedenikovic GOAL...Bedenikovic cornerkick from right is short to NMP Mohammed Habibzi taps back to him
and his chip from 18 yards from the far right is over goalie and it dropped into the top left corner of the net.
84 min...TS Sivakumar rescues ball on right end line but can only roll it to goalie along end line.
86 min...NMP Massunda rolls 25 yarder past defender and goalie smother on shot up the middle.
88 min...TS Jashan long run up middle but loses control at 15 yards and overruns it while eluding defender.
90 min...TS YELLOW card...Kropa earns it for dissent yelling at referee's assistant. Hmm that would be a second one but the linescore
only lists one so maybe the 78 minute card wasn't one!
91 min...NMP goalie catches cross from left ahead of TS Sivakumar at 7 yards.
93 min...TS Castaldo on right slides to finish 12 yard shot wide right on play initiated from left and passed through box.
95 min...TS Edic 28 yard freekick from far right has defefnder on left head ball away.
95 min...game ends 9:53pm.

Final Score:.....North Mississauga Panthers.....2......Toronto Skillz Academy.......0.......

After the Sigma vs Masters game which finished two hours earlier on this same field I just stayed behind to watch 
this game. OK with one short drive for some fast food.       

The Panthers had lost their last two games although they were against top three clubs FC London and Sigma FC.
Skillz had won only their second game last weekend against Darby FC rather handily and I expected that this
game would be very competitive.  That was true because the game could have gone either way until that 
insurance goal.   

Asking for help filling in the assists with Bedenikovic I realized I'd watched him play for Toronto Lynx in 2006.  
The season before he was with Oakville Blue Devils who were a farm team of the Lynx.  Also before and after those 
years with Toronto Croatia and Portugal United (SC Toronto).  He's listed as age 34.  The Panthers are dealing 
with injuries as leading scorer Tristan Watson was watching from the stands in a leg cast from his thigh to his foot.  
He answered me that it happened in a car accident.  2017 'L1O Goal of the Year' winner Ameen Majtaba was also 
watching from the stands.  I can top the old players though...defender Jaroslaw Radzinski played the entire 90 minutes 
for the second game in a row.  He is born in 1977 and his OSA ID number is only four digits long (whereas today's 
teenage players are up to seven)!  Head coach Sam Medeiros who would have played against him said he uses him 
as motivation to his 18 year old players “Look at that guy, he's 40 years old and can outrun you and never tires out...”  
I've watched 'Jarek' play with Toronto Supra way back in 2003.  He is the younger brother of Canadian Hall of Famer 
Tomasz Radzinski.  I watched Tomasz play with North York Rockets in the first year I started going to games in 1988.  
There was no internet nor even message boards in those days kids!  I took this as an omen that I should go out 
Sunday morning to visit a bar in Vaughan to see the York 9 viewing party of the World Cup Final.  Hmm the final had 
an own goal and a goalie miscue for another goal.  Ammunition when someone criticizes this league!                 

On the sidelines after the Panthers game I spotted L1O commissioner Dino Rossi.  I asked him about what happens 
to the teams who don't make the playoffs.  It is just like hockey—get out the golf clubs!  There will be no relegation 
brackets.  Also the league is still unclear about whether next year TFC III will be in the league.  With them 
joining the USSDA for their September to April season, a TFC III staff member has already answered me that it would 
be too much to expect them to play all year round.    

The win improves North Mississauga's record to 3 wins, 3 losses, and 2 ties for 11 points.  As this is the 
last game of the weekend it means they have climbed to a tie for eighth in the standings but have played one more
game than Alliance United. Ooh they must be glad TFC III won't be taking part in the playoffs so even 'ninth' will 
be good enough for the post season.  

Toronto Skillz loss means they are part of a four-way tie for thirteenth place. Their record falls to 2 wins, 7 losses,
0 ties.  Having no ties this year means means that have more 'wins' then the other teams they are tied with but now
that 11 points is the playoff line, their prospects look bleak. 

North Mississauga Panthers starters

Toronto Skillz starters

Skillz Anfal Ekhlas (30) takes opening kickoff.

Skillz Michael Jashan (7) takes throw-in.

midfield action

North Mississauga Sundin Esperance (2) takes freekick.

North Mississauga Rahim Thorpe (9) takes second half kickoff.

more midfield action

Skillz late threat on edge of NMP box.

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