July 13, 2019 League 1 Ontario--Ottawa South United Force vs Windsor TFC game report (by Rocket Robin)

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Result and details of the Saturday July 13, 2019 League 1 Ontario game between Windsor TFC and Ottawa South United Force
played at Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan at 3:00pm.

Ottawa South United Force (all white, black numbers)

...................20 Gabriel Cinanni
12 Adam Rombough...24 Zachary Toupin...5 Haider Kadhom...8 Olivier Menard
14 Eric Watson...7 Nevello Yoseke...18 Hansly Malonga...21 Aidan Tuck
............16 Eric Watson (cpt)...10 Pavle Vujicic

Subs:...6 Liam Cassis...11 Mohamed Maadani...15 Ryan Massoud...23 Chris Yoo
team officials:...team head coach David Hannah...assistant coach Samir Karaga

Windsor TFC (all red, white numbers)
...................31 Kaneen Fells
22 Leonardo Fereirra Dasilva...2 Brendan Woodfull...11 Bryce Phillips (cpt)...20 Kyle Buren
........15 Nathaniel Clemmings...10 Christian Mayorga...16 Tanner Page
.........9 Jonathan Agapito...7 Tyrone Mulder...8 Ard Dieker

Subs:...1 Brogan Engbers (gk)...3 Andrew Ribeiro...4 Cameron McNeil...6 Adesina Gbadebo
...21 Theo Hirst
team officials:...team head coach Ryan Mendonca...assistant coach James Lambourne
...managers Sasha Trpceviski and Vancho Cirovski

Game officials:...referee Kim Lee...referee's assistants Souhail Abdala and Joshua Heuving
...fourth official Laura Godts...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

First Half:...starts 3:02pm...OSUF defends north end. It's overcast and windy as it's about to rain.
6 min...WTFC player's cornerkick from right is cleared in box.
6 min...WTFC Mulder wins cornerkick after long run up right when defender concedes.
7 min...Windsor Tyrone Mulder GOAL...WTFC Christian Mayorga takes cornerkick from right
and Mulder in crowd of players in box with back to net connects on a 10 yard bicycle kick
from right side of net into left side of goal past flying goalie Gabriel Cinanni.
9 min...WTFC Page rush up left and rolls 22 yard pass into box a step ahead of sliding WTFC Dieker who can't control it.
12 min...WTFC player concedes cornerkick.
14 min...WTFC Mulder rescues ball on right end line and low cross to WTFC Fereirra Dasilva who eludes defender
and 8 yard shot is wide left.
16 min...OSUF player can't win Penalty kick on tip/dive in box.
16 min...OSUF Malonga 25 yard freekick from slight right is high wide left over back fence.
20 min...OSUF player 25 yard shot is rolled to goalie.
21 min...OSUF Tuck 30 yard freekick into box is stopped by defender but OSUF Kadhom 10 yard shot is stopped.
25 min...The game is called for lightning with the clock already frozen at 24:40.
The lightning stops and the sun comes out at 3:45pm.
24 min...team game restarts at 3:59pm.
...OSUF sub:...Yoo replaces Yoseke.
24 min...WTFC player's cornerkick from left has WTFC Woodfull head 7 yarder on left that goalie catches.
25 min...it starts raining again!
26 min...OSUF Rombough low 15 yard cross from left end line is caught by goalie on bounce.
27 min...OSUF Tuck is injured with WTFC Mulder put hand to his face at WTFC 45 yard sideline.
28 min...OSUF Tuck 30 yard cross from left has defender concede cornerkick.
28 min...OSUF Tuck cornerkick from left has OSUF player pop up header in crowd of players but ball is cleared from box.
29 min...WTFC Mayorga cross left center line drifts behind net.
30 min...WTFC Agapito has 15 yard shot saved. WTFC Fereirra Dasilva shoots 22 yarder wide left.
32 min...OSUF Tuck cornerkick from left has OSUF Toupin pops 6 yard header and goalie catches under bar.
33 min...WTFC Fereirra Dasilva cornerkick from left to WTFC Mayorga shoots back to Fereirra Dasilva and 25 yard
chip is wide right.
37 min...WTFC Fereirra Dasilva blasts 40 yard freekick down middle is well high and wide right.
38 min...WTFC Dieker misses bicycle kick from 20 yards down middle (hey must be a success limit of one per game!).
42 min...OSUF Tuck cornerkick from right has OSUF Vujicic head backwards at 20 yards on left and out for throw-in.
43 min...OSUF Menard 28 yard shot is tipped off defender and flies high and right for cornerkick.
44 min...OSUF Tuck cornerkick from right has OSUF Vujicic leap to head down and 10 yards on left and goalie catches
on bounce.
45 min...OSUF Tuck recives pass from right and 25 yard shot from left is well over net.
45 min...half ends 4:20pm.

There's only a ten minute halftime and the players stay on the benches.

Second Half:...starts 4:29pm.
halftime subs:...WTFC Engbers replaces Fells in goal.
47 min...WTFC Mulder can't win Penalty kick from right on push over near right end line.
49 min...WTFC Fereirra Dasilva is squeezed off ball on 1 on 2 rush into box.
50 min...WTFC Clemmings rides off OSUF Avedissian on left side of box.
51 min...WTFC Dieker rush into left side of box and rolls cross but no WTFC players are there.
54 min...OSUF sub...Maadani replaces Vujicic.
54 min...WTFC Mayorga 40 yard freekick from left has charging WTFC Mulder is called offside on right.
58 min...WTFC Mayorga rolls cross from left into box and defender clears.
59 min...WTFC sub...Gbadebo replaces Woodfull.
62 min...WTFC Agapito balsts 28 yarder up middle that goalie catches on right side of net.
63 min...OSUF Cassis replaces Tuck.
63 min...WTFC Dieker cornerkick from left is whistled down in box.
64 min...WTFC goalie is out to 30 yards to clear ball.
65 min...OSUF Toupin blasts 45 yarder from right is well high and wide right.
66 min...WTFC sub...Ribeiro replaces Agapito.
68 min...OSUF goalie is out to 20 yards to beat WTFC Mulder to long ball up the middle.
68 min...WTFC Mulder low 25 yard shot up middle has goalie dive right to smother ball.
72 min...WTFC Page wins cornerkick on run to left end line.
72 min...Windsor Ard Dieker GOAL...WTFC Leonardo Fereirra DaSilva cross from 15 yards
along left end line has Dieker even with right post nod in free header from 6 yards
into center of net.
74 min...WTFC Fereirra Dasilva 25 yard freekick from left is bent into outside webbing of net.
76 min...WTFC sub...Hirst replaces Mayorga.
78 min...WTFC Page cross from 30 yards on left bounces to goalie in middle of box.
79 min...OSUF Yoo is injured at OSUF 40 yard line but WTFC Dieker helps straighten his leg.
80 min...WTFC Fereirra Dasilva on 1 on 2 is checked off ball on edge of box but wins cornerkick.
81 min...WTFC Fereirra Dasilva cornerkick from left has goalie punch ball away on right post for cornerkick.
82 min...WTFC Ribeiro cornerkick from right has goalie punch ball away in crowd of players.
84 min...WTFC Mulder gets 22 yard roller as he's checked and goalie pick up ball at 3 yards.
88 min...WTFC Dieker cross from left near end line has WTFC Hirst deflect ball from 10 yards wide right of goal.
90 min...OSUF YELLOW card...Malonga earns it at OSUF 45 yard line for tackle from behind on sideline.
92 min...OSUF Malonga 25 yard freekick from top left of box has OSUF Toupin on right at 8 yards pop header high
and wide right.
93 min...game ends 5:17pm.

Final Score:...Ottawa South United Force........0.........Windsor TFC........2........

Attendance was about 15 on this hot afternoon with a nice wind cooling things down when
the game started. Oh oh, overcast too, I should have known....quite a rain storm came across
and lightning got closer and closer. Referee Kim Lee called a break freezing the scoreboard
at 24:40. Good call as the stands are made of aluminum.

I had set off from my seat a few minutes earlier when the rain started and walked around the
boundary fence still able to stand on my toes to look over the screening to see a few shots
as I made my way to the 'treehouse' shelter of the match officials. I could have been there
at the start of the game but I'd be taking photos into the sun. The wooden treehouse takes
in a lot of rain anyway falling between the slats of the roof. I was protecting my notebook
(that's pen and paper, kids!) so posed like I was playing Twister go keep dry until the game
was officially delayed then took shelter in the indoor facility nearby.

The game was stopped at 3:24pm and the rain stopped and the sun came out at 3:45pm. The game
was restarted at 3:59pm and it started to rain about a minute later. This scenario played
out in the 'big leagues' as the MLS game between Montreal and Toronto FC had some of the same
incidents although at this game the second rain never got anywhere near as hard.

The fans although the smallest I've seen at any game this year stayed loyal (sheltering
in their cars until the restart) as they'd come a long way to see their sons.

This game was held in the Greater Toronto area because it is a four hour drive from Windsor
(players came in a fleet of SUVs) and a five hour drive (I confirmed with their bus driver)
from Ottawa so this was a compromise the league's done before. Think of doubling that time
to get back home the same day and it's a good choice. I was here, same location two years ago,
but last year this game kept being postponed and finally put off until the season's last weekend
and turned into a 3-0 forfeit when Windsor informed the league (on a few days notice) they would
not be fielding a team.

I was glad I was here because I saw what deserves to be the 'Goal of the Year'. Tyrone Mulder
scored on a bicycle kick which is frozen in my mind on slow motion replay. Even the OSUF parents
a few rows in front of my were cheering about this effort.

It 'deserves' to win but it won't because the game was not filmed. I asked an L1O official about
that and they say videoing the games is up to the home team to make arrangements. OSUF has their
favourite in Ottawa but this game was quite a distance away. These games aren't OneSoccer quality
but just camcorder on a pole but should have been recorded just in case something like this goal
happened! I think of numerous operators looking for work who record the men's and women's games
who would have been available on a few day's notice. There was a photographer who took pictures
of the play and the WTFC players crowded around after the game to look with shouts of “Send me
that one!” (Sorry I saw his tweet of the picture but can't find it now and have lost his name).
So only me and the 15 fans and players and officials there will have seen it.

***EDIT Late news. It was Kevin Raposo on Twitter as @kevinraposo who made the tweet.
Thank you to Windsor TFC account @WinTFC for linking to his site.

After the game Mulder answered me that he wasn't in the GTA last Saturday when WTFC played
Aurora FC because he was injured.

Kaneen Fells (starter) and Brogan Engbers each worked a half in goal and shared the shutout
for WTFC. A tweet from the league revealed that OSUF didn't have a shot on net today. Well
it's a resume builder!

Referee Kim Lee gave out only one Yellow card and waited until 90 minutes to call a slide tackle
from behind against OSUF Hansley Malonga. The game was pretty tame as I saw it. OSUF Chris Yoo
was down at 79 minutes and it was WTFC Ard Dieker twisting his leg back into position to work out
the cramp.

Best non-scoring moments were at 14 minutes when WTFC Tyrone Mulder rescued a ball on the right
end line and sent a low cross to WTFC Leonardo Fereirra DaSilva who eluded a defender and took
an 8 yard shot wide left. 24 minutes (right after the restart) a WTFC cornerkick had
WTFC Brendan Woodfull head a 7 yarder on the left that the goalie caught. Injury time had
OSUF Aidan Tuck take a cornerkick from the right had OSUF Pavle Vujicic leap and head the ball
down at 10 yards on the left and the goalie caught it on the bounce. 74 minutes had Fereirra DaSilva
take a 25 yard freekick from the left that bent into the outside webbing of the net. 81 minutes
and Fereirra DaSilva's cornerkick from the left had the goalie punch away on the right post
for a cornerkick. Then Andrew Ribeiro took a cornerkick from the other side which the goalie
also punched away in a crowd of players. Injury time had OSUF Hansley Malonga take a 25 yard
freekick from the top left of the box that OSUF Zachary Toupin at 8 yards pop a header high
and wide right.

OSUF extends their dubious record of not scoring since their one goal in the season opener.
They've played ten games since.

Windsor improve their record to 2 wins (one better than all of last year!), 7 losses, 1 tie
for 7 points and climb into a fourteenth place tie with Toronto Skillz who have an identical
record today. Skillz will play Sunday (WTFC had a game postponed earlier this season).

OSUF record falls to 0 wins, 10 losses, and 1 tie for 1 point and sixteenth. Their only positive
result was last weekend when they held the visiting first place team Vaughan Azzurri to a scoreless
draw. Goalie of that game (whose come to the GTA before) Horace Patient Sobze Zemo did not make
the trip today and both teams had short benches.

One official who did come to town for OSUF was Samir Karaga. I had to be reminded of his name
when I heard him start talking about Ottawa Wizards that he was a forward for them in their CPSL
days of 2001 to 2003. Now that was a time when an Ottawa area team dominated the GTA teams!

Even with the rain delay it still left me plenty of time to drive crosstown to see Masters FA
hosting Alliance United who are both at the opposite end of the L1O table.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca
twitter @RocketRobin01

Ottawa South United Force starters