August 11, 2018 League 1 Ontario--Masters FA Saints vs FC London game review (by Rocket Robin)

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Results and details of the Saturday August 11, 2018 League 1 Ontario game between Masters FA Saints and FC London
held at L'Amoreaux Park in Scarborough at 8:00pm.

Masters FA Saints (all red, white shoulders and numbers)

......................1 Spiridon Koskinas
7 Shawn Brown...6 Eddy Dabire...5 Marc Jankovic...15 Antoine Paul
2 Adam Czerkawski...9 Cyrus Rollocks...10 Jose Melo...16 Randy Durand Miss Miyenga
...............70 Jose De Sousa...14 Reshaun Walkes

Subs:...00 Sebastian Zeballos (gk)...3 Tristan Gayle...4 Joshua Lee...11 Milos Scepanovic
...12 Kevante Walters...18 Johnson Jonathon Amoo...20 Maleik De Freitas
team officials:...team head coach Rick Titus...assistant coaches Pernell Mason and Rob Meikle
...manager Junior Groves

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

.........................1 Anthony Sokalski
5 Parker Seymour...21 Marko Maletic...3 Aaron Schneebeli...2 Max Marsh
7 Ethan Gopaul...13 Jeremy Arnold...10 James Pucci...11 Michael Bitel...8 Mohammad Reza Nafar
..........................23 Connor Wilson

Subs:...22 Connor Dalton (gk)...6 Sean Fawsitt...12 Belal Halbouni...16 Patrick Melo
...18 Michael Sneddon...19 Benjamin Vyfschaft...20 Chad Gopaul
team officials:...team head coach Michael Marcoccia...assistant ccoach Eduard Schmidt...therapist Michael Robinson

Game officials:...referee Scott Bowman...referee's assistants Mike Stacey and John O'Hara
...fourth official Lukasz Kowalewski...(all black uniforms)

First Half:...game starts 8:00pm...Masters defends south end on this warm overcast evening.
29 sec...FC London James Pucci GOAL...FCL Mohammad Reza Nafar intercepts pass across 25 yards and centers pass
to left post and Pucci shoots 18 yarder to top right corner of net over goalie Spiridon Koskinas.
5 min...MFA Melo 40 yard freekick has defender on left post head ball out for cornerkick.
5 min...MFA Melo hight cornerkick from left is over players in box and out other side.
6 min...FCL Seymour low cross from right near cornerflag is picked up by goalie.
10 min...MFA Melo 35 yard freekick from right has MFA Jankovic at 8 yards on left head ball towards net and goalie
recovers on deflection.
11 min...FCL Pucci blasts partial clearance from 22 yards well high and wide left of net.
12 min...MFA Melo cornerkick from left has MFA Jankovic head 15 yarder that goalie catches on top right post.
13 min...MFA Walkes low 18 yards hot from left is smothered by goalie diving to right post.
15 min...MFA Melo 25 yard blasts down middle is over net.
16 min...MFA Goalie is out to left edge of box to beat FCL Wilson to ball and turns around to smother it.
18 min...MFA Rollocks beats FCL goalie to bouncer on left end line and rolls into 6 yard box but MFA Miss Miyenga
can't knock it in.
19 min...MFA Melo 20 yard freekick from left has play whistled down in box.
20 min...MFA Dabire blasts 18 yarder from right that has goalie push ball wide right of post.
21 min...MFA Melo cornerkick from right has MFA Rollocks in crowd of players on left head ball high and wide left of net.
21 min...MFA Paul 60 yard freekick from left has MFA Czerkawski head ball at 12 yards on right but goalie charges out
to catch ball on bounce.
23 min...MFA Paul stops FCL Pucci and FCL Ethan Gopaul rush at top right corner of MFA box.
25 min...MFA Rollocks gets pass at center line and charges forward being pushed to left and his low 15 yards shot from
sharp angle is smothered by goalie on left post.
27 min...MFA Melo 40 yard freekick from right has goalie catch out to clear.
27 min...FCL Wilson rolls ball across MFA box and retreating MFA Dabire clears it out.
29 min...Referee ejects Junior Groves from the MFA box for harassing the fourth official who was over at their bench. Groves
was more criticizing his own players than the officiating.
31 min...MFA Melo bends 25 yard freekick from left just wide left of open post.
33 min...MFA goalie catches deflected bouncer off own player on FCL blast from 28 yards.
34 min...FCL Seymour is injured near the left sideline at FCL 40 yard line.
35 min...FCL Connor Wilson GOAL...FCL Michael Bitel pass from 28 yards on left to Wilson who runs across face of goal
and cuts low 15 yarder from right to left corner of net.
37 min...MFA sub...De Freitas replaces Miss Miyenga.
39 min...MFA Melo cornerkick from right has MFA Davire in crowd of players pop header over net from 10 yards.
41 min...MFA Melo cornerkick from right has goalie catch when MFA player ducks to flick header at 8 yards on right post.
42 min...FCL Arnold 25 yard shot from left hits bar. Arnold eventually gets ball back and shoots wide right.
43 min...MFA YELLOW card...Davire earns it for tackle on FCL Seymour at FCL 50 yard line.
47 min...half ends 8:47pm.

Halftime Entertainment: there are no fan skills contests like earlier in the season.

Second Half:...starts 9:04pm.
halftime sub:...MFA Jonathan Amoo replaces Brown.
46 min...FCL Wilson feeds through ball to FCL Ethan Gopaul but defender kicks ball off him and it deflects back to MFA goalie.
50 min...FCL defender gets back to clear ball at 8 yards meant for MFA De Sousa. MFA Rollocks had sent in pass.
50 min...MFA Dabire throw-in from right cornerflag bounce to goalie.
52 min...FCL Wilson rush from 40 yard line on left cuts to center and his 25 yard shot is wide right.
53 min...FCL YELLOW card...Seymour earns it for tackle that injures MFA Walkes on left sideline.
53 min...MFA Melo 30 yard freekick from left has defender on right flick header out right.
54 min...MFA YELLOW card...Koskinas earns it for tackle at MFA 30 yard line.
55 min...FCL players work out short cornerkick from right is wasted when not brought into box.
56 min...MFA Jonathon Amoo rolls 25 yard shot through FCL box that first MFA player lets go by and MFA Melo blasts 15 yarder
that goalie palms over net.
56 min...MFA Melo cornerkick from right is whistled down in box.
57 min...MFA Melo chip 30 yard freekick down middle has MFA Dabire miss header at 6 yards on left post.
60 min...FCL player's cornerkick from left is short and wins a freekick on a hard check.
61 min...FCL Arnold 25 yard freekick from far left is bent over net.
62 min...FCL Ethan Gopaul GOAL...Gopaul beats goalie to ball at 22 yards who came out to help retreating MFA Jankovic
but Gopaul gets to ball first and rolls it past sliding goalie near edge of box.
64 min...MFA sub...Scepanovic replaces Walkes.
65 min...MFA YELLOW card...Melo earns it for dissent.
66 min...FCL sub...Fawsitt replaces Arnold.
.........FCL sub...Patrick Melo replaces Marsh.
66 min...FCL Nafar rush down left and rolls ball across 20 yard line and FCL Ethan Gopaul chips 20 yarder over to right of net.
68 min...FCL sub...Vyfschaft replaces Pucci.
69 min...FCL goalie is out to top left corner of box to catch bouncer before MFA Rollocks can get to it.
70 min...MFA sub...Lee replaces Rollocks.
71 min...FCL Schneebeli concedes cornerkick on a header of an MFA cross over FCL box.
72 min...MFA Jankovic charges across FCL box to flick 12 yard header over bar.
73 min...FCL sub...Chad Gopaul replaces Bitel.
74 min...MFA Melo 22 yard freekick from right has MFA Dabire flick 8 yard header just wide left of post.
76 min...FCL sub...Halbouni replaces Ethan Gopaul.
77 min...MFA Jose De Sousa GOAL...MFA Jose Melo at 30 yards in middle chips pass forward and to left. An MFA player crosses
from left and De Sousa jabs it into right side of net from 5 yards past goalie Anthony Sokalski.
79 min...MFA De Sousa 22 yard roller is smothered by goalie.
80 min...MFA Lee low shot through players from 28 yards is smothered by goalie.
81 min...MFA Paul 20 yard roller from left is smothered by goalie.
82 min...MFA Jose De Sousa GOAL...MFA Jose Melo pass from left is over to De Sousa who shoots 20 yarder that goalie dives
to left to save but fumbles it into own net from 2 yards.
84 min...FCL Benjamin Vyfschaft GOAL...An FCL player taps a freekick on the left edg of box and the ball is rolled through
box and the charging Vyfschaft shoots 6 yarder forward into net.
86 min...FCL goalie and MFA Lee both slide for through ball pass at 15 yards. Lee is injured on the play.
87 min...MFA sub...Walters replaces Paul.
88 min...FCL Seymour low 20 yafder from left has goalie sprawl save.
88 min...MFA Czerkawki is innjured in own end.
89 min...MFA Jonathon Amoo races down right and cross is over box and MFA Lee blasts 20 yarder from left well over net.
91 min...MFA Lee pass from left at 25 yards to MFA Melo who shoots 8 yarrder up middle off left post. An MFA player blasts the
partial clearance from left well over net.
93 min...FCL Halbouni pops up cross from left into MFA box.
94 min...game ends 9:53pm.

Final Score:...Masters FA Saints.....2....FC London.....4........

  
Masters were known for giving up late goals to drop points for ties or losses but 
tonight was different as they were behind at only 29 seconds.  James Pucci opened 
the scoring then Connor Wilson added a goal at 35 minutes (that was his tenth goal 
of the season and it gave him the L1O goalscoring lead for a brief time before the 
next afternoon when Anthony Novak scored three goals for Oakville for him to take 
the lead with eleven).  Chad Gopaul increased their lead at 62 minutes to 3-0 but 
suddenly Jose De Sousa scored at 77 and 82 minutes to give Masters a chance but 
Benjamin Vyfschaft immediately responded at 84 minutes to put the game away.  

It was a rough game but only four Yellows were given out plus manager Junior Groves 
was ejected from the Master's bench for comments made.  

Milos Scepanovic was a write-in substitute scratched onto the game roster.  I remember 
him the CSL playing for Serbian White Eagles.  I caught some news from the CSL league 
website that he now plays for Scarborough FC.

Masters after tonight are in a three way tie for tenth place but fizzling with 0 wins,
4 losses, and 3 ties in their last seven games.  They started the season with two ties
then two ties then they've collapsed.  Last week they travelled all the way to Ottawa
to play OSUF and gave up a tying goale at 95 minutes.  

They almost caught up after falling behind 3-0 but the FCL reply two minutes after the 
MFA second goal broke the comeback attempt. 

FC London climbed into a tie for first place for Saturday night although with TFC III 
and Sigma FC playing the next morning they'd only share the top for a few hours.  Still
FCL are on a seven game unbeaten streak so can't be counted out.

Masters FA Saints starters