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November 19, 2024...Men's CONCACAF Nations League Quarterfinal match Canada vs Suriname game report (by Rocket Robin)
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Result and details of the Tuesday November 19, 2024 Men's CONCACAF Nations League Quarterfinal match between
Canada and Suriname played at BMO Field in Toronto at 7:30pm.
Canada (all red uniforms, white names and numbers)
........................1 Dayne St. Clair
2 Alistair Johnston...4 Kamal Miller...15 Moise Bombito...22 Richmond Laryea
14 Jacob Shaffelburg...13 Mathieu Choiniere...7 Stephen Eustaquio (cpt)...23 Ali Ahmed
..............9 Cyle Larin...20 Jonathan David
Subs:...16 Maxime Crepeau (gk)...18 Jonathan Sirois (gk)...3 Samuel Adekugbe (def)...5 Joel Waterman (def)
...6 Niko Sigur (def)...8 Ismael Kone (mid)...10 Junior Hoilett (fwd)...11 Thelonius Bair (fwd)
...12 Tani Oluwaseyi (fwd)...17 Tajon Buchanan (fwd)...19 Jamie Knight-Lebel (def)...21 Jonathan Osorio (mid)
team officials:...head coach Jesse Marsch...assistant coaches Ewan Sharp, Paul Stalteri, and Mauro Biello
...goalkeeper coach Paolo Ceccarelli...physiotherapists Ryan Leaver, Scott Howitt, and Gregory Bay...doctor Dave Simon
...physical trainer Pierre Barrieu...kitman Spencer Ure
Suriname (all white uniforms, black names and numbers, green shoulders)
.......................23 Etieen VaessenSubs:...1 Ishan Kort (gk)...13 Jonathan Fonkel (gk)...6 Pherai Immanuel (mid)...7 Tyrone Conraad (fwd)
...9 Dylan Vente (fwd)...10 Virgil Missidjan (mid)...14 Roscello Vlijter (mid)...15 Anfernee Dijksteel (def)
...16 Renske Adipi (mid)...18 Jayden Turfkruier (mid)...21 Jaden Montnor (fwd)
team officials:...head coach Stanley Menzo...assistant coach Ryan Koolwijk...goakeeper coach Harmen Kuperus
...physiotherapist Robin Massier...doctor Willem Graafland...physical trainer Micheiel Ten Haken
kitman Ameet Binda...general manager Brian Tevreden...team manager Awinaaz Ramcharan
Game officials:...referee Katia Garcia...referee's assistants Sandra Ramirez and Karen Diaz (all from Mexico)
...fourth official Daniel Quintero (from Canada)...(light blue socks and shirts, black shorts)
referee assessor Joel Aguilar...VAR Guillermo Pacheco...assistant VAR Oscar Mejia
In a pregame ceremony Ismael Kone was presented an award as Canada's 2023 Young Player of the Year. Later Alistair Johnston
and Junior Hoilett were presented with awards for achieving 50 games for Canada.
First Half:...game starts 7:38pm...Canada defends north end on this cold, wet night with a strong wind from the north.
1 min...Can Miller is injured just outside the Sur 18 yard box on the left and needs trainer. He had just slipped a pass into the Sur box.
Sur Malone followed through on a clearance kick and kneed him.
4 min...Play reumes. Can Johnston long throw-in from the left is headed away in the Sur box.
6 min...Can Shaffelburg runs down left side and low cross into box along the 6 yard line is cleared by defender.
7 min...Can Laryea rolls pass up left from center line and charging Can Shaffelburg gets ball at 22 yard line and shoots
low 18 yarder from just inside the left side of the box from 10 yard line that goalie smothers on short side post. Retreating
Sur Van Gelderen was even with Shaffelburg preventing him from cutting to center.
10 min...Can Laryea wins freekick from 20 yards on knock over on left at 20 yard line.
10 min...Can Shaffelburg freekick from 20 yards has goalie punch ball away on right.
12 min...Sur defenders recover slip up while retreating into box to clear one player who'd fallen over.
16 min...Can Shaffelburg is not awarded cornerkick on low blocked cross on left end line.
20 min...Can Eustaquio freekick from 28 yards on left has Can Miller leap at 10 yards in middle of box but not able to turn header.
22 min...Can players 45 yard freekick is short and worked up left and Can Shaffelburg wins cornerkick.
22 min...Can Jonathan David GOAL...Can Stephen Eustaquio rolls cornerkick from the left upfield to Can Mathieu Choiniere
at Sur 20 yard line on left and he crosses over players on edge of 6 yard box and leaping Can Cyle Larin at 2 yard line
on right heads ball across into crowd in box. A defender partially clears ball from 3 yards but it hits a sliding Can player
and another defender clears from 44 yards but ball hits Can Jacob Shaffelburg at 16 yard line and deflects back to center
of box at 12 yards where Can Kamal Miller partially whiffs on kick as he falls and ball bounces forward for David
to roll 6 yarder from center to left corner of net with sprawling goalie trapped in center of goal.
*A VAR review concluded that Can Jacob Shaffelburg did not have a handball on the partial clearance.
27 min...Can Eustaquio backheel pass from 5 yards on right is over end line for goal kick.
27 min...Sur YELLOW card...goalie Vaessen earns it for argueing a call.
29 min...Can Jacob Shaffelburg GOAL...Can goalie Ddayne St. Clair just inside his 18 yard box clears ball to center line
where Sur player heads bal from 53 yard line back into Can end. Can Moise Bombito bumps off retreating Sur forward at
Can 35 yard line and steps forward and sends long cross from CAn 40 yard line on slight right upfield and the charging
Shaffelburg breaks upfield from the Sur 50 yard line to chase the ball alone on a breakaway. The Sur goalie Etienne Vaessen
runs forward and actually gets to the ball first at the 25 yard line but Shaffelburg blocks his clearance attempt and
he recovers it at the 15 yard line and runs ball up the middle tapping into an empty net from 6 yards.
32 min...Can Choiniere chips 30 yard shot between players down middle well wide right of net.
33 min...Sur goalie clears backpass at 6 yard line.
34 min...Can Laryea is injured when pushed from behind at Can 35 yar line left sideline by Sur Becker.
35 min...Sur goalie catches chip into box from 30 yards by Can Johnston from slight right ahead of charging Can Larin who
would have been called offside.
36 min...Can Laryea clearance off Sur player at 30 yards deflects over own end line for goalkick.
38 min...Can Miller is injured sliding to make clearance as Sur Van Gelderen tries to leap over him at Can 25 yard line
on right and needs trainer. Miller gets his head wrapped around to stop the bleeding on the side opposite the players' bench
and Can play short for that time.
41 min...play resumes, Can player makes clearance on edge of box.
42 min...Can Miller returns to the game.
43 min...Sur Lonwijk dribbles ball from Sur 50 yard lie on right and rolls pass forward from Can 35 yard line up middle
for Sur Vlijter at 25 yards. He bumps with Can Bombito knocking him over, recovers ball and shoots 20 yard that goalie
bats down on edge of 6 yard box and retreating Can Laryea chest down rebound at 10 yards and shanks high clearance
meant for the left sideline but ball flies over the end line for a cornerkick.
43 min...Sur Becker cornerkick from left is headed away by Can Eustaquio as first defender on left side of box.
44 min...Can Johnston at 42 yards on right has centering pass intercepted by Sur Lonwijk who dribbles forward up middle
and rolls pass forward for charging Sur Becker at 30 yard line in middle. Becker cuts slightly to left and his 8 yard
shot from left is tipped over net by sliding Johnston.
45 min...Sur Becker cornerkick from left is cleared by sliding Can Eustaquio on left side of box.
46 min...Can Ahmed wins cornerkick on low cross on near right end line.
47 min...Can Shaffelburg cornerkick from right is deflected out for goalkick on right by Can David.
50 min...Can Eustaquio steps over freekick from 30 yards on left. Can Choiniere chips it over players in box finding
charging Can Johnston at 44 yards on right and he heads ball downward and over to left where Can Bombito taps in 2 yarder.
A VAR request comes in and referee sees that Johnston pushed over retreating Sur Haps to get to header so goal is called back.
54 min...half ends 8:32pm as soon as game restarts and before Sur goalie can even take the goalkick.
Halftime: There weren't any halftime events for the fans except Rock, the Chicken Mascot, for Maple Lodge Farms led fans in the west stands to do the Chicken Dance.
Second Half:...starts 8:48pm.
Halftime subs:...Sur Misidjan replaces Van Der Kust.
....................Sur Conraad replaces Vlijter.
45 min...Sur Becker is injured at Sur 35 yard line in collision with Can Laryea.
48 min...Can Laryea rolls short pass forward from 22 yard line on left to charging Can Shaffelburg at 3 yards and he rolls centering
pass from left end line that retreating Sur Denswil concedes cornerkick from left post preventing Can players from tap-in in 6 yard box.
48 min...Can Choiniere cornerkick from left has Can David pop up header from left side of box over to right side of 6 yard box
where defender heads it out right side of box.
49 min...Can players prevent shot on edge of Can 18 yard box on left on scrambly play.
50 min...Can Laryea rolls ball forward from 45 yards but Can Shaffelburg can't stop ball before it rolls out on left.
52 min...Sur Becker is down and wins freekick but kicks his leg out at Can Laryea at Sur 45 yard line injurying him
and that starts a multi-player dust up.
54 min...Sur Van Gelderen centers pass to Sur Lonwijk but Can Bombito blocks his 20 yard shot up middle.
56 min...Sur Haps freekick from 28 yards on right is headed away by Can Choiniere at 12 yards on right side of box.
57 min...Can goalie beats Sur Abena to ball at 15 yard line on right to make catch although offside flag was up.
59 min...Can Shaffelburg wins freekick when pushed over on sideline near left center line.
60 min...Can Shaffelburg is injured again but pushes ball forward to Can Larin for low cross that's unplayed through box.
61 min...Can Shaffelburg cornerkick from right is just over heads of players in box.
62 min...Sur Haps wins freekick on tackle by Can Johnston at Sur 50 yard line.
63 min...Can sub...Sigur replaces Choiniere.
............Can sub...Kone replaces Johnston.
65 min...Can Sigur wins freekick on left side of Can box when constantly pushed from behind by Sur Becker.
66 min...Canada Jacob Shaffelburg GOAL...Can Niko Sigur at center line on right sideline rolls pass up the line
that finds Can Ali Ahmed at 40 yard line and he rolls ball forward for charging Can Cyle Larin at 25 yards on far right.
Larin dribbles forward to 15 yarad line and sends low centering cross a step too far ahead of Can Jonathan David
at 13 yards who was even with the right side of the 6 yard box. The ball is also ahead of retreating Sur Liam Van Gelderen
but Shaffelburg gets to it at 6 yards in alignment with left post and lifts ball over sliding goalie into center of net.
68 min...Can Miller and Sur Conraad both injured in center circle in collision. Can Miller needs trainer for
head injury. Can play short from 71 min when play resumes.
72 min...Can Larin rolls centering pass after run down right has goalie slide forward and smother before Can player
can get to it although the offside flag was raised.
73 min...Can Knight-Lebel replaces injured Miller.
...........Can Buchanan replaces Ahmed.
74 min...Sur sub...Vente replaces Becker.
75 min...Can Laryea on left at 25 yard line passes forward to charging Can Bair a step too far and ball rolls over end line.
76 min...Can Laryea chips up cross that Can David whiffs when it comes down at 15 yards and Can Laryea then wins
cornerkick on deflection of his shot from left.
77 min...Can Eustaquio cornerkick from left is headed out of box.
79 min...Can David receives pass at Sur 50 yard line on slight right and feeds roller forward for Can Larin to get to on edge
of 18 yard box and bumping with Sur Denswil shadowing him all the way shoots 8 yarder over sliding goalie at 3 yards and ball
hits right post and deflects out of box over to left side. (The fireworks are set off...oops!)
80 min...Can sub...Hoilett replaces Shaffelburg.
............Can sub...Bair replaces Larin.
82 min...Can Laryea dribbles up left from 50 yard line and gradually cuts towards center. At 20 yards surrounded
by defenders he rolls pass to left for open Can Hoilett who runs to left end line and sends cross over to right
where leaping Can Buchanan heads 44 yarder over the net.
83 min...Sur goalie is out to 12 yards on left to clear ball before Can Bair can get to through ball pass.
85 min...Sur Lonwijk on give and go dribblels up right wing from 80 yards and when he gets to 30 yard line he slides
and rolls centering ball for Sur Misidjan who charged over fro left and steps around Can Sigur to blast 22 yard roller
forward and just wide left of post.
86 min...Can David rolls centering pass just a step ahead of sliding Can Buchanan at 6 yards.
86 min...Sur defender deflects Can Kone shot from 18 yards away and out of the box.
87 min...Can Sigur gets back in to Can box to break up Sur cross from right.
87 min...Can Buchanan long run up right wing and low centering cross from 20 yard line is cleared by retreating defender.
89 min...Can Bombito gets back to beat Sur Conraad to through ball pass up left side.
90 min...Can Bombito sends high header from 45 yard line forward and to right. Can Buchanan charges over to right to recover
ball at 25 yard lilne. He dribblels forward along right edge of 18 yard box and rolls centering pass that Can Bair
one-touches 12 yard shot past defender trying to block him and over net.
91 min...Sur sub...Adipi replaces Lonwijk.
............Sur sub...Turfkruier replaces Haps.
93 min...game ends 9:36pm.
Final Score:....Canada......3........Suriname........0.......
Attendance was announced near the end of the game as 13239 on this cold and wet night. That was about 10000 less than last month at the exhibition game between Canada and Panama used as a preparation to this quarterfinal series. I think the weather played more of a part keeping people away than their mostly unknown and lowly ranked opponents. It had been raining from more than two hours before game time which pretty much killed the walk up crowd. The field was in pretty good shape with practices being held at the BMO Training Grounds in Downsview rather than here and practice nets placed near the sidelines for the warm ups tonight. Suriname players came out for their pregaame walkabout in black parkas with their national team logos on them. I can't see them ever needing to wear them again because in World Cup Qualifying, they will not have to play the only 'cold climate' CONCACAF teams as Canada and the US don't need to qualify because they are among the co-hosts of the 2026 tournament. Referee Katia Garcia and two other female referee's assistants led an all Mexican officiating crew. The Panama game here was led by an all female American crew. This game had more fouls but she kept it pretty much in control giving out only one Yellow card...to the Suriname goalkeeper for complaining about a call. Canada dominated from the start with most of the action taking place in the Suriname half of the field. Suriname had no shots on net during the home match on Friday night although they did have a shot go off the cross bar. Tonight was not much different except they did get a shot away that goalie Dayne St. Clair batted down at 43 minutes. St. Clair played the Friday night game too. Two shutouts but not enough material to make a highlight reel to add to his resume. Jamie Knight-Lebel made his debut for the Canadian team coming in at 73 minutes with the series no longer in doubt. He replaced Kamal Miller who had been injured for at least the third time during the game. He fitted in in his favoured position as a defender. This subbing time also was a good time to bring in Tajon Buchanan who had recovered from a long injury. Moise Bombito played a brilliant game with an assist on Shaffelburg's first goal then having his first ever goal for Canada called back after a VAR review just before halftime. At least he and the crowd had three minutes of joy before the call taking it back. The win by 3-0 meant that Canada easily won the quarterfinal series 4-0 by aggregate. It was undetermined who their semi-final opponent would be after the game ended as the final quarterfinal game involved Mexico hosting Honduras with Honduras holding a 2-0 first game lead. By the time I got home at midnight, Mexico had won at home 4-0 to advance. Mexico with their first game loss were only ranked fourth of the semifinalists, Canada because of winning both their games and having a one goal better plus/minus than the Americah team finish first which sets up the one game semi-final against Mexico in Los Angeles in March. The US plays Panama who finishes with a win and a tie against Costa Rica. Just what the organizers wanted-- a potential US vs Mexico final.Last month when Canada was here Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David and Richie Laryea were presented with awards for reaching 50 games playing for the national team. Tonight it was Alistair Johnston and Junior Hoilett with this honour.
Jonathan David takes over sole possession of Canada's goalscoring lead with his 31st goal tonight. Cyle Larin almost kept pace but he rang the right post at 79 minutes and got some itchy fingered member of the stadium crew to launch the fireworks. Combined with the goal that VAR overturned, lucky us got to see the fireworks five times during the game plus after the Canadian anthem before the game and after the final whistle. OK not as many as a Taylor Swift concert but she didn't have a concert tonight.
Were there any Suriname fans here? I initially throught there were many until I saw that many people were eating popcorn that was served in green coloured boxes so it looked like small Suriname national flags from a distance.
I was sitting in the third row of the press box tonight which made it difficult to take pictures but I could see the OneSoccer broadcast on the monitors above the first row seats where I was for the last game. I just had to realize that there was about a 50 second delay which I was able to use to see replays of action when I missed some of the details.
I had looked up a few weeks earlier the TTC website to see if the Harbourfront streetcar line was running from Union Station all the way over to the Exhibition Grounds and would not be short turned at Spadina because of overhead wire work dead-ending the line and causing me a six block uphill walk to King Street to catch the next nearest streetcar route. I'd planned two alternate routes if this was still the case. No rerouting tonight. Hmmm...construction/renovations are listed as recommencing November 24th which is the day after the last Taylor Swift concert in the city. Hey thanks Ms Swift! You've actually improved public transit for your time here for city officials to hide from the world how bad things are.Rocket Robin
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Canadian starters
Suriname starters
Canada's Jonathan David (20) and Cyle Larin (9) line up for opening kickoff
Canada lines up for a freekick from 28 yards out
An unpopular scoreboard sight used twice tonight. The scoreboard was reset at 2-0 after this decision
Suriname Tyrone Conraad (7) takes second half kickoff
The referee has cleared a melee at 52 minutes
Canada clears Suriname Ridgeciano Haps (5) freekick.
Canada players celebrate in a post game huddle
Canadian players salute The Voyageurs supporters group
A OneSoccer graphic shown before the game showing the Men's national team success in Toronto.
Full Time Stats (from One Soccer)
Canada Suriname
Goals 3 0
Aggregate 4 0
Shots 12 4
Shots on target 4 1
Possession 56% 44%
Corners 5 2
Fouls 21 14
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