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Result and details of the Friday October 5, 2018 USL game between Toronto FC II and Louisville City FC
played at Lamport Stadium in Toronto at 8:00pm.

Toronto FC II (all red, white names and numbers)

.....................28 Caleb Patterson-Sewell (cpt)
36 Tim Kubel...38 Kyle Bjornethun...49 Robert Boskovic...54 Ryan Telfer
56 Malik Johnson...48 Dante Campbell...50 Matthew Srbely...59 Noble Okello Ayo...46 Tsubasa Endoh
.....................20 Ayo Akinola

Subs:...30 Borja Angoitia (gk)...55 Aidan Daniels (mid)...58 Jordan Faria (mid)...64 Shaan Hundal (fwd)
...63 Luke Singh (mid)...77 Jordan Perruzza (fwd)
team officials:...manager Michael Rabasca

Louisville City (white socks, gold shorts, names, and numbers, goald and white hooped chest shirts)

....................28 Tim Dobrowolski
24 Kyle Smith...3 Alexis Souahy...5 Paco Craig...19 Oscar Jimenez
........36 Paolo Del Piccolo (cpt)...10 Brian Ownby...80 Devon Williams
........39 Jonathan Lewis...14 Ilija Ilic...12 Luke Spencer

Subs:...1 Gregory Ranjitsingh (gk)...4 Sean Totsch (def)...9 Cameron Lancaster (fwd)...11 Niall McCabe (mid)
...21 Shaun Francis (def)...22 George Davis IV (mid)...23 Richard Ballard (mid)
team officials:...manager John Hackworth

Game officials:...referee Pierre-Luc Lauziere...referee's assistants Melissa Snedden and Peter Pendli
...fourth official David Barrie (all black uniforms)

First Half:...game starts 8:06pm...TFC defends north end on this cold night with the sun already set.
1 min...LC players have a set of blocked shots that win a cornerkick.
2 min...LC Jimenez cornerkick from right is lofted to 25 yards where charging players lofts it into box
catching three players offside in 6 yard box.
3 min...TFC Boskovic clears ball into TFC box crossed in from left.
7 min...TFC goalie steps forward to bat down and grab cross from right.
8 min...LC Jimenez cornerkick from right has defender head ball out left side of box.
8 min...TFC goalie catches 60 yard chip over players wide right of net.
9 min...TFC Kubel wins cornerkick on deflection on cross from right.
9 min...TFC Telfer cornerkick from right has defender head ball out left side of box. A recross is also headed away.
10 min...Louisville Ilija Ilic GOAL...LC Paco Craig freekick from 65 yards is chipped downfield
and LC Luke Spencer pops up header at 28 yards. LC Brian Ownby on slight left outjumps TFC Tim Kubel
to head ball at 25 yards flicking it over to center. TFC Dante Campbell heads ball downwards
from 25 yards back towards goalie and Ilic charges forward up middle and extends leg to control
ball to tip around TFC Kyle Bjornethun and from 12 yards shoots low and shot deflects off foot
of retreating TFC Robert Boskovic and over sprawling goalie Caleb Patterson-Sewell into center
of net.
12 min...TFC Akinola splits one set of defenders then tries another and defender concedes cornerkick with boot out
at 12 yards.
13 min...TFC Endoh cornerkick from left has defender head ball through box and wins throw-in.
15 min...LC Williams 33 yard shot down middle is just over bar.
16 min...LC Ownby long run down left and wins cornerkick.
17 min...LC player's cornerkick from left is whistled down in box.
18 min...TFC Endoh bends 35 yard low freekick from left is wide left of net.
19 min...LC Jimenez cornerkick from left has TFC Okello heads ball down but ball is cleared from box.
20 min...LC Ownby is injured on sliding tackle at TFC 33 yard line.
21 min...LC Jimenez 35 yard freekick from left has player head ball down. LC Spencer gets 22 yard shot deflect
up at 10 yards and goalie leaps to catch on left post.
24 min...LC Ownby dekes two guys on left to end line and unlucky not to win Penalty call on hand ball as he crossed
that hit arm of TFC Bjornethun.
25 min...LC Lewis flick foot to LC Spencer for run down right but TFC Bjornethun blocks his 18 yard shot from right.
26 min...LC Ownby wins cornerkick after long run and defender's sliding tackle.
27 min...LC Jimenez cornerkick from left has TFC defenders clear on two header through box to start fast break out.
28 min...LC Craig beats TFC Srbely to clear cross into box from right.
30 min...LC Jimenez 45 yard freekick from left has TFC Bjornethun pop header away retreating to 6 yards.
31 min...TFC Johnson gets to long cross on right from TFC Endoh and 15 yard shot has goalie dive and push ball wide
right of net.
32 min...TFC Telfer cornerkick from right has TFC Srbely leap at 10 yards to head ball over net.
33 min...LC players take too long to set up perfect shot and eventually goalline cross is cleared.
33 min...LC YELLOW card...Del Piccolo earns it for trip tackle on TFC Johnson running over center line.
36 min...TFC Johnson 28 yard deflected shot up middle has goalie dive to smother.
37 min...TFC YELLOW card...Akinola earns it for pushing over LC Del Piccolo at 25 yards line near right sideline after
Del Piccolo head checked Akinola off ball upfield.
38 min...LC Jimenez 30 yard freekick from far right has LC Craig chest 5 yarder down on bounce and goalie palms ball
over bar.
39 min...Louisville Alexis Souahy GOAL...LC Oscar Jimenez sends in cornerkick from left and Souahy
charges between players and heads 4 yarder just under bar on left side of net between upraised
arms of goalie.
41 min...LC player is called offside getting ball in alone at 15 yards up middle.
43 min...TFC Telfer makes key clearance of long cross into box and runs it out right side of box.
44 min...TFC Akinola rolls 35 yard through ball up middle wide left of net as TFC Endoh doesn't run for it.
46 min...half ends 8:52pm.

Halftime Entertainment: The Antony's Espresso Machine prize is given to the loudest TFC II fan.
I went over to the Louisville supporters section and spoke with goalie Gregory Ranjitsingh's uncle and his
parents. Greg is injured they said but he is here and listed as the backup goalie. I showed them a tweet
that Sigma FC's head coach Bobby Smyrniotis was named as the first ever head coach of Forge FC, the Hamilton
city team in the new Canadian Premier League. I used to watch Ranjitsingh tend goal for Sigma in League 1
Ontario.

Second Half:...starts 9:08pm.
45 min...TFC Srbely bounces 20 yard shot between players wide left of net.
46 min...TFC Akinola runs down left but rolls centering pass to LC goalie.
48 min...LC Jimenez 25 yard freekick from slight left is bent wide left of net.
49 min...TFC Kubel cross from 40 yards on right to TFC Akinola on left side of box but he's checked off ball.
50 min...TFC Johnson runs into right side of box and wins cornerkick.
50 min...TFC Telfer cornerkick from right has goalie catch in crowd of players and survies bump.
51 min...TFC Kubel bends cross from 35 yards on right and defender heads ball away on left.
52 min...LC Ownby low cross from 8 yards line has TFC Boskovic stops and clears in center of box.
54 min...LC Ownby run to left end line and high cross from 8 yards is over box and out of play.
55 min...LC Jimenez cornerkick from right has ball fall in box and goalie picks up between crowd of players.
56 min...TFC Srbely receives short pass from right and his low 18 yard shot up middle has goalie dive forward
to smother.
58 min...TFC Endoh run from 30 yards up left and wins cornerkick on deflection.
58 min...TFC Endoh cornerkick from left has leaping goalie palm ball through box.
59 min...TFC Telfer low cornerkick from right has nearest defender head ball away.
59 min...TFC Endoh cornerkick from left has TFC Akinola head down on right post but wide and TFC Telfer
blasts 5 yarder near end line well over net.
60 min...TFC Akinola rush and left and 20 yard shot has goalie dive forward and bat ball away.
61 min...LC Jimenez 40 yard freekick from left has LC players charging forward and LC Souahy heads ball that
flying goalie pushes wide right.
62 min...LC Jimenez cornerkick from right has LC player in crowd of players heads wide of net.
63 min...TFC Srbely run down right on break and rolls pass forward and LC defender concedes cornerkick rather than
let TFC Akinola get to ball at 10 yards.
63 min...TFC Kubel cross from right has goalie catch.
66 min...TFC YELLOW card...Okello earns it for pulling down LC Ilic at TFC 43 yard line.
67 min...LC sub...Lancaster replaces Spencer.
........LC sub...Ballard replaces Lewis.
68 min...TFC sub...Perruzza replaces Kubel.
........TFC sub...Daniels replaces Johnson.
70 min...TFC goalie is out to edge of box to punch ball away 55 yard freekick and wins freekick when he's bumped.
72 min...TFC Campbell low cross from 30 yards on right has defender clear.
73 min...TFC Akinola has goal called back offside when player rolls him centering pass which he rolls in 12 yarder.
74 min...TFC player's cross from far left is over box and bounces out for goalkick.
75 min...LC sub...McCabe replaces Williams.
76 min...TFC Campbell rolls pass too far forward on right and defender lets it roll over end line.
76 min...LC Ownby bends 25 yard cross from left wide right of net ahead of any LC player who would have had 3 yard header.
78 min...TFC sub...Hundal replaces Akinola as LC player was down injured.
79 min...LC Davis cross from right is high and wide of top left corner of net.
80 min...Louisville Cameron Lancaster GOAL...LC goalie Tim Dobrowolski clears backpass by blasting
ball from edge of box up middle and ball deflects off Lancaster back to LC Ilija Ilic at 45 yard line.
He chips ball forward to Lancaster charging forward on left side. Lancaster shoots low 15 yarder
to right corner of net beyond sprawling goalie at 6 yards.
82 min...LC Ilic can't win Penalty kick on run into right side of TFC box.
83 min...TFC Okello 50 yard chip pass from right down middle is step ahead of charging TFC Hundal and goalie picks up ball.
84 min...LC Ownby heads 12 yarder on left over net after receiving pass from right.
86 min...LC Ownby can't win Penalty kick on squeeze play on 1 on 3 rush into TFC box.
87 min...TFC Jordan Perruzza GOAL...Perruzza recovers clearance by LC player from end line
that deflects off TFC Dante Campbell at 6 yards and falls just behind him just outside box. He goes
back to recover and turns towards goal stepping between two defenders and shoots 16 yarder low
to left side of box under flying goalie.
88 min...LC Ownby has run on left side of box stopped without getting away shot.
89 min...LC Lancaster shot from 8 yards near right end line is deflected high off defender's foot and cleared on left side of box.
89 min...TFC Perruzza is caught offside twice in 1 minute.
93 min...game ends 9:56pm.

Final Score:....Toronto FC II......1......Louisville City FC.......3.......

Attendance was not announced but uslsoccer.com lists it as 128. Parka weather recommended!

Man of the Match (who is always a TFC player) was announced as Dante Campbell for his work.
He did send in some good crosses and played well offensively and coming back to defend. I believe
they decide these awards ten minutes before the game ends so they can have the presentation
and award ready.

Best of the other scoring chances were at 15 minutes when LC Devon Williams took a 33 yard shot
down the middle that was just over the bar. 21 minutes had LC Oscar Jiminez take a 35 yard freekick
from the left that a defender headed down in the middle. LC Luke Spencer got away a 22 yard shot
that deflected up at 10 yards and the goalie leapt on the left post to catch. Three minutes later
LC Brian Ownby deked two guys on the left to the end line and was unlucky not to win a Penalty kick
call on a handball as he crossed inside the box and it hit the arm of Kyle Bjornethun. 31 minutes
had TFC Malik Johnson get to a long cross on the right from TFC Tsubasa Endoh and his 15 yard shot
had the goalie dive and push wide right of the post. Ryan Telfer's subsequent cornerkick had
Matt Srbely leap at 10 yards and head over the net. 38 minutes had Jiminez take a 30 yard freekick
from the far right that LC Paco Craig chested down at 5 yards and the ball bounced up and the goalie
was able to palm it over the bar. That play resulted in the cornerkick for the second goal.
56 minutes had Srbely take a low 18 yard shot up the middle that the goalie dove forward to smother.
59 minutes had Endoh send in a cornerkick from the left that TFC Ayo Akinola headed down on the
right post but wide and Telfer blasted a 5 yarder near the end line well over the net. Next minute
Akinola rushed up the left and took a 20 yard shot that the goalie dove forward to bat the ball away.
The minute after had Jiminez take a 40 yard freekick from the left that with LC players charging
forward and Souahy headed and the goalie flew to the right to push it wide of the post. 73 minutes
had Akinola have a goal called back offside after rolling in a 12 yarder after a pass from
Jordan Perruzza. 84 minutes had Ownby head a 12 yarder on the left over the bar. 89 minutes had
Lancaster shoot from 8 yards near the right end line that was deflected high off a defender's foot
and cleared on the left side of the box.

Louisville came out hot and swarmed TFC for the first 30 minutes in possession and chances. TFC got
their first good chance at 31 minutes. TFC had beaten Louisville 4-1 on August 28 in Louisville
in front of 6248 fans.

Louisville gambled tonight resting their offensive star Cameron Lancaster until bringing him
on at 67 minutes. He scored his 22nd goal of the year 13 minutes later to put the game on ice.
Lancaster leads the USL with goals scored this season and tonight's goal ties the all time USL
record for 'most goals in a single season'. TFC and Louisville were trading opportunities equally
in the second half and one TFC goal could have swung the momentum. That 67 minute mark also brought
on another record setter when George Davis IV entered the game. This was his 200th USL appearance
and sets the record for USL games played in the modern era.

TFC II head coach Michael Rabasca said post game that in general “Louisville City is just a better
team overall. (We) made a lot of individual mistakes both in attack and defending”. He said he was
happy when we went with a totally different system of play in the second half and the guys picked
it up and did a decent job. He said “I was worried about playing a shape we'd never played before
but I though they handled it well”.

The only TFC MLS semi-regular player tonight was midfielder Ryan Telfer. That may be good news for
Jordan Hamilton and Liam Fraser who were here for the Ottawa Fury game on September 26 as maybe
they'll make the MLS bench.

New TFC II signings include midfielder Luke Singh (born in 2000) has taken over the #63 kit although
Liam Fraser gave that up when he signed an MLS contract and chose #27. I've watched Singh play quite
a few times this year for TFC III of League 1 Ontario.

Forward Jordan Perruzza (age 17) has been given #77 which Swiss born Brandon Onkony had at the
beginning of the year but has disappeared. Perruzza was born in Toronto but was in Italy with
FC Empoli's youth team than Empoli U17 and came on a free transfer on August 1, 2018 so that's why
I can say I've never seen him in L1O games. If he played for TFC as a very young teenager before
going to Italy I'm unaware, but it could be truth-bending like saying Jonathan Osorio was
a TFCA product.

Rabasca said about Perruzza the staff is high on him. “He's a forward who will run at the
back line...he's thinking about scoring goals anytime it's on his foot” and also “An exciting
young player (2001) when we're looking into the future”. Perruzza said about his goal “I was just
looking at how I could make a good impact and how I could help the team. I understood where I was
in the box and took a shot”. He answered about his transition from the Academy to USL the players
here understand more of what they're doing on the field and it's easier to play up here. He credits
fellow forward Shaan Hundal for showing him the little things of what to and what not to do.

After Perruzza's goal he had two more opportunities but he was called offside on one by
a good 10 yards. Even a soccer mom called it a wasted chance as it ruined her son's set up.

About 40 of those were fans cheering for the visitors, either travelling to see the team or relatives
and friends of Pickering goalie Greg Ranjitsingh (a graduate of Sigma FC's academy). He is currently
injured said his parents when I met them at halftime. What bothered me is that the entire Louisville
team came over to the fan side of the field after the game to say thank you to their supporters while
for TFC they had maybe six or seven made their way over. Now that is understandable after a loss but
this was the final home game of the season for TFC and I think they owed it to their fans
(the other 80 of us there) to do better. I remember the bad years of the MLS team the players would
walk around the field after the home finale with a 'Thank you fans' banner which I started to recognize
after its annual appearance. Goals scorer Perruzza was an exception as he was over running over to greet
one group of us and then another maybe 20 yards downfield. It's tough and dangerous to do a
'Lambeau Leap' over the concrete to get to us so just reaching up to glad-hand a few people was enough.

I mentioned this after the meet and greet with TFC president Bill Manning and he said the players
were clearly frustrated. He then gave a story of how Wil Johnson who played for his Real Salt Lake
team at the time had brushed off a fan who then complained to him and he questioned him (something like)
'Would you rather he said hello or be upset and determined to win so he can be better next time?'
Manning said the fan chose he'd rather win.

Manning also told me that TFC II are moving next year to the BMO Training Ground (in Downsview) to play
next year at a soon to be constructed 1200 seat stadium. Hmm that could be a reason for what I call
'self relegating' themselves as the USL League One standards aren't so strict about 5000 seat minimums
and their mostly teenage players won't be beaten so often next year.

TFC II's record falls to 4 wins, 24 losses, and 4 ties for 16 points. They have two road games remaining
and if they win both they could tie Richmond to not finish in last place of the 16 Eastern Conference
teams. Richmond will also be dropping to USL League One so their battle can continue.

Louisville's record improves to 17 wins, 6 losses, 9 ties for 60 points. With MLS bound FC Cincinnati
clinching first place about a month ago they are battling for second place with Pittsburgh and tonight's
win helps hold the Riverhounds off.

Louisville is one of those independent teams not affiliated with any MLS team since 2016. Years ago
they took over the USL Orlando City roster when that team joined MLS. This is a reason the team has
a purple, gold, and white colour theme. (gold numbers on white shirts did make it hard for me to read).

Rocket Robin
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