August 17, 2024...League1 Ontario...ProStars FC vs Hamilton United game report (by Rocket Robin)

Result and details of the Saturday August 17, 2024 League1 Ontario Men's Premier Division game between
ProStars FC and Hamilton United played at Victoria Park in Brampton at 7:00pm.

I will be posting pictures, logos, and more of a play-by-play about this game someday (ie. the offseason).

33 min...ProStars Mashhood Rehman GOAL...PS Nikolas Blaskovic cornerkick from right has Rehman in crowd of players in box head 10 yarder that drops into right side of net with goalie guarding center of goal.

44 min...ProStars Kyse Majel GOAL...Majel dribbles up left and 25 yard shot from slight left has goalie Muaz Saleh only get a piece of it and ball deflects into right side of net.

49 min...ProStars Taha Ilyass GOAL...Ilyass blasts low 35 yard freekick up middle that finds left side of net between player wall and goalie who was frozen in middle.

51 min...ProStars Nikolas Blaskovic GOAL...PS Bradley Ogbevuon at 30 yards on right taps centering pass to PS Justin Cabral who taps ball to Blaskovic who shoots low 30 yarder that bends into right corner of net.

79 min...ProStars Darrian Sinclair GOAL...PS Santiago Ubate shoots low 15 yarder from right in crowd of players that has goalie make a standing foot save. Sinclair recovers the rebound at 12 yards in center and shoots into right side of net.

81 min...Hamilton Elton Nyamah GOAL...Nyamah bashes by defender on short right side near top of box and takes 10 yard shot that goalie Sunny Dhaliwal on near post gets a piece of but ball squeezes by him just inside the near post.

82 min...Hamilton Graydon Howie GOAL...HU Jordan McNally on right gives short through ball pass to Howie who shoots roller that sliding goalie gets a piece of at 12 yards but ball squeezes under him and rolls into net.

84 min...ProStars Darrian Sinclair GOAL...Sinclair is given long through ball pass up right and takes 18 yard shot that finds left corner of net.

Final Score:......ProStars FC......6.......Hamilton United.......2........

Attendance climbed to about 40 by halftime. I left home during heavy rain but had an app that said the rain would stop by 7:00pm which was gametime. Because I was driving west, it was the way that weather always comes through the city so Brampton has whatever weather my suburb gets one hour ahead of mine. There was no rain for the rest of the night when I arrived but the drive here I had three separate outbursts of driving rain.

Since the game was on the natural grass at Victoria Park in Brampton I almost expected a city official at the gates to say the game was off. Players had some problems early on with some slipping around.

It took Hamilton until 25 minutes to get a shot away and 30 minutes until they had a shot on net. ProStars started connnecting on some of their long balls during the second half. They mixed up their cornerkicks with some with long set ups and some quickly taken short ones to then crossed into the box.

Referee Hussein Walji gave out just three Yellow cards (two to Hamilton) including one for HU Mujtaba Ameen for diving in the PS box trying to draw a Penalty kick at 66 minutes when the game was already out of reach at 4-0. The game had a lot of back and forth action usually outside each teams' 30 yard line with lots of offsides called.

CPL York United FC's current roster includes forward Markiyan Voytsekhovskyy who was playing for ProStars as recently as the 2022 season while still a teenager.

The win improves ProStars record to 7 wins, 3 ties, 10 losses for 24 points and moves them up one spot into eighth place although most teams will be playing tomorrow. They have two games to play to finish their season and should be safe from being caught in eleventh place and having to play against the second best Championship Division (second tier) team to stay in the Premier. Sigma FC would also probably like to thank Hamilton United as they also put six past them on Wednesday night climbing away from danger.

The loss drops Hamilton United's record to 0 wins, 5 ties, 15 losses for 5 points. They will finish twelve (last) and will be relegated. They scored only their ninth and tenth regular season goals this year so it is easy to see their problem. They only had three players on their bench (nine is the maximum permitted—ProStars had six today). Andrew Derayeh acted as their head coach. I saw regular head coach Kamran Derayeh (father of Andrew) in the stands and the league app can flip back through past games and it appears to be he was not behind the bench because of Yellow card accumulation.

I did pass on going to a battle of third and fourth place teams a lot closer to home and starting 30 minutes later which would have put me even further away from the rainstorm timeline but I wanted to see Hamilton so tonight I can say “I've now seen every L1O Men's Premier Division team a MINIMUM of twice this season”. That's done in 23 games. Only three teams I've only seen twice but I'm running out of time with no playoffs to squeeze in some more games.

Overhead storm clouds moved in just before game time and I went back into the parking lot to get my umbrella. I should have grabbed my bug repellent too as black flies and mosquitos started coming out during the last ten minutes of the game as it got dark.

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