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

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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.

ProStars FC (all blue uniforms, white numbers)

.......................1 Sunny Dhaliwah
15 Mashhood Rehman...5 Noah Bickford...144 Lucas Doros...18 Tomas Joseph
7 Justin Cabral...10 Nikolas Blaskovic (cpt)...6 Santiago Ubate...17 Kyse Majel
...................8 Bradley Ogbevuon...9 Taha Ilyass

Subs:...29 Justin Quiroga (gk)...2 Christian Lacuesta...3 Raffaele Pisani...4 Serhii Khoma
...20 Darrian Sinclair...22 Edric Velazquez
Team officials:...head coach Danny Costa...assistant coach Gabriel Pop...physiotherapist Reena Gaidhu
...other official Noah Costa

Hamilton United (all gray uniforms, white numbers, orange trim)

..........................25 Muaz Saleh
5 Miles Phillips...3 Bleron Azemi...6 Alban Boci...14 Ibrahim Ahmat
7 Marc Iantomasi (cpt)...22 Ali Assaad...12 Denis Neziri...18 Zachary Maharaj
............8 Elton Nyumah...10 Mujtaba Ameen

Subs:...11 Jordan McNally...15 Juan Manuel Plata Cruz...21 Graydon Howie
team officials:...head coach Andrew Derayeh...physiotherapist Harjot Suri

Game officials:...referee Hussein Walji...referee's assistants Josue Tomas Cascales and Matthew Hartman
...fourth official Eric Harman...(red socks and shirt, black shorts)

First Half:...game starts 6:57pm...ProStars defend north end on this overcast and mild evening after thunderstorms
and severe rain had fallen in the late afternoon.
4 min...Ham goalie catches long chip from left on bounce.
8 min...PS Blaskovic ddekes defender on run up left and 20 yard shot from left is wide of top right corner of net.
10 min...PS Blaskovic crosss from 8 yard line near left sideline drifts behind net.
13 min...PS Blaskovic 35 yard freekick from far left is through players in box and hits goalie and deflects away.
13 min...PS Rehman cross from 20 yard right sideline has PS Majejl one-touch mid-air shot over net from 12 yards.
15 min...Ham goalie catches 45 yard chip up middle on bounce.
18 min...PS Blaskovic 35 yard freekick up middle is over players on edge of box and goalie catches on bounce.
20 min...PS Blaskovic high cornerkick from left has PU Rehman on right lob back into center of box for pop up header
and ball is cleared.
21 min...PS Majel misses jab of chip into box at 7 yards and goalie steps forward to grab it.
22 min...PS Rehman low cross along 10 yard line from near right sideline has goalie boot away. PS Cabral blasts partial
clearance forward and iwde left on roller.
23 min...PS Ilyass low cross from right has defender clear from center of box.
25 min...Ham Ameen 40 yard rolling shot up middle deflect off foot of defender at 25 yards and goalie picks up wide right of goal.
26 min...PS Rehman low cross from right has PS Blaskovic diving header hit back of his foot and deflect behind end line for goalkick.
27 min...PS Ilyass 35 yard roller from slight left is wide left.
28 min...PS Joseph 30 yard shot from left is between players and wide right.
29 min...PS players work out short cornerkick from left and high cross has PS Ilyass pop up header from 8 yards on right.
30 min...Ham Assaad low shot up middle from 30 yards has goalie catch on bounce.
30 min...PS Joseph high 35 yard cross on rush own left is wide right.
31 min...PS Ilyass run on right has slididng defender block 15 yard shot.
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.
36 min...PS Rehman run on right and high cross is well over box.
36 min...PS Cabral gets centering cross and blasts 28 yard shot high and wide right.
37 min...Ham Phillips crashes on check at Ham 40 yard line and needs trainer.
39 min...PS Blaskovic cornerkick from left has Ham Neziri on near post kick away ball for throw-in.
40 min...PS Bickford punts ball from PS 5 yard line that finds charging PS Blaskovic gets to ball at 25 yards on right
and blasts shot that flying goalie pushes wide right of post.
41 min...PS player's short cornerkick from left is broken up and ends with PS Doros getting weak header from 15 yards to goalie.
42 min...Ham Assaad is injured at Ham 35 yard line and needs trainer.
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.
45 min...Ham Ameen on give and go up right ends up with them running ball over end line.
46 min...PS goalie dives to left of goal to beat Ham Maharaj to through ball pass.
46 min...half ends 7:43pm.

Halftime: Both teams subs warm up. It's now overcast again.

Second Half:...starts 7:59pm.
46 min...PS Ubate 35 yard shot down middle is high and wide right.
48 min...PS Ilyass receives long pass from PS Bickford at 15 yards and backheels ball for PS Blaskovic who shoots
low 10 yarder from left that goalie saves on near post.
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.
53 min...Ham sub...Cruz replaces Assaad.
57 min...Ham YELLOW card...Phillips earns it for sliding tackle on PS Cabral at Ham 35 yard line injurying him.
58 min...PS Blaskovic 37 yard freekick from left has charging PS Ilyass running across box head 8 yarder from center wide left.
58 min...PS Blaskovic cross from left along 7 yard line has PS Majel skip kick 5 yarder wide right.
59 min...PS Blaskovic cornerkick from right has two PS players head ball forward but second one has ball stopped.
60 min...PS sub...Lacuesta replaces Bickford.
60 min...PS Ilyass is checked off ball on left side of Ham box.
61 min...Ham goallie catches low cross from right end line.
62 min...PS sub...Sinclair replaces Majel.
62 min...Ham Maharaj low 28 yard shot from left is caught by goalie.
63 min...Ham Nyumah is checked off ball on 1 v 4 rush on edge of PS box.
64 min...PS Blaskovic cornerkick from right has PS players not able to turn header in box.
65 min...PS sub...Pisani replaces Ubate.
...........Ham sub...Howie replaces Phillips.
65 min...Ham goalie ssmsothers loose balll at 15 yards.
66 min...Ham YELLOW card...Ameen earns it for diving in PS box trying to win Penalty kick call.
68 min...PS Joseph runs along 30 yard line from right and shoots 30 yarder down middle wide right.
69 min...PS sub...Velazquez replaces Cabral.
70 min...PS Sinclair runs down left and low cross has PS Ogbevuon pop up ball and goalie catches on its way down.
71 min...PS Jospeh 20 yard shot from far right is well over bar.
72 min...PS Blaskovic 35 yard shot form slight right is well over net.
73 min...PS Blaskovic volleys ball to steady it at 12 yards in middle and he shoots wide right.
73 min...Ham goalie is out to 15 yards to beat PS Sinclair to long chip.
74 min...PS sub...Khoma replaces Ogbevuon.
75 min...PS Khoma 22 yard chip from right is well wide left.
76 min...PS Rehamn runs to left end line and low cross is caught by goalie. Ham Azemi was injured earlier in the play and
needs trainer at Ham 30 yard line.
78 min...Ham player's cornerkick from left has PS Valazquez head away on right side of box.
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.
81 min...Ham sub...McNally replaces Maharaj.
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.
85 min...PS Doros strips balll away from Ham McNally cutting near right edge of box.
86 min...PS YELLOW card...Sinclair earns it for elbow on Ham Boci as he bumped up the middle.
87 min...PS Ilyass recovers from being jostled on run down left and inward low 25 yard shot curls just wide right of post.
91 min...game ends 8:45pm.

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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