September 10, 2016 League 1 Ontario--Pro Stars FC vs Windsor Stars (by Rocket Robin)

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Result and details of the Saturday September 10, 2016 League 1 Ontario game between Pro Stars FC and Windsor Stars played at Terry Fox Stadium in Brampton at 7:00pm.

Pro Stars FC (all blue, white numbers)

..................22 Jonathan Albanse
12 Fadi Petros...19 Marco Polancec-Marin...4 Lucas Marcelic...16 Marquis Brown
23 Lucas Doros...15 Philip Balkhe...6 Michael Fayehun (cpt)...10 Manny Slewa
.............20 Luke Kim...3 Walter Rymar

Subs:...1 Justin Barrett (gk)...2 Victor Fleming...5 Johnathan Majoros...9 Liam MacCarthy-Willoughby
...11 Troy Ferrira...13 Tyler Dowell-Tetrault...17 David Bain
team officials:...head coach Hrvoje Perkovic...other team officials Josef Komlodi, Stiven Mikhail, Gabriel Pop,
Gordana Palancec-Marin, Sherry Youssef

Windsor Stars (white socks, shorts, and numbers, powder blue shirts)

...................0 Johnathan Vaughan
6 Yannick Diamani (cpt)...3 Philllip Pattison...4 Akbal Gill...8 Philip Jurkowski
19 Jackson Moy...10 Celso Carapau...15 Michael Roncone...18 Tyler MacFarlane
...............12 Mahmoud Award...22 Nathan Cummings

Subs:...01 Sebastien Seke (gk)...11 Khaled Ellakruot...16 Griffin Fenton...5 Ali Nazim
...14 Shihab Al-Khulaidy
team officials:...assistant coach Demetri Vacratsis...manager Vancho Cirovski

Game officials:...referee Jsoe Sanchez-Larios...referee's assistants Joseph D'Onorfrio and John Leuser
...fourth official Dennis Sima...(all black uniforms)

1st Half:...game starts 7:02pm...PS defends west end.
50 sec...PS Slewa is tapped freekick from 35 yards and his shot is blocked by wall.
1 min...PS Balkhe 25 yard freekick is just wide left of post.
2 min...PS Doros midair shot from 18 yards deflects off defender for cornerkick.
2 min...PS Balkhe cornerkick from right has defender clear and PS Fayehun gets cross in and heads 8 yarder wide left of net.
3 min...it starts to rain for about three minutes.
6 min...WS Carapau 28 yard freekick from right has WS Award leap to knock ball down at 15 yards and defender clears.
6 min...PS Rymar flicks 6 yard header on leap on cross from left and twists it wide right of net.
9 min...PS Petros gets chance to continue run into box and 10 yard shot on right deflects off defender for cornerkick.
9 min...PS Balkhe cornerkicfk from right has PS Brown head 10 yarder over net.
10 min...WS Cummings steals ball and PS Petros gets back on left to concede cornerkick.
11 min...WS Carapau cornerkick from left has WS Award head down but ball cleared.
13 min...PS Rymar run up left and low 30 yard shot is wide left.
14 min...PS Fayehun follows up partial clearance with 18 yard shot wide left.
15 min...WS goalie Johnathan Vaughan dives for ball at 15 yards but also trips up Pro Luke Kim and referee Jose Sanchez-Larios calls a Penalty kick.
16 min...Pro Manny Slewa GOAL...Slewa blasts Penalty kick low to left corner and diving goalie gets hand to but ball rolls under him.
17 min...WS Carapau 22 yard shot of partial clearance is over net.
19 min...WS Carapau 40 yard freekick up middle has WS players called offside after deflection near edge of box.
22 min...PS Petros rush down left and rolls centering cross from PS Slewa to shoot 15 yarder wide right.
23 min...PS Balkhe 25 yard freekick down middle hits wall. Balkhe blasts 22 yard rebound over net.
25 min...PS Petros 30 yard low shot from right between players and wide left of net.
27 min...PS Balkhe gets pass on right wing and shoots 20 yarder wide right.
29 min...Rymar blasts midair bouncer of loose ball at 22 yards well over net.
30 min...WS Moy gets behind defender on right who missed header on leap and crosses to middle and goalie slides to beat WS Diamani to ball at 10 yards in middle.
31 min...WS Carapau and Cummings waste cornerkick from right by not getting it into PS box.
33 min...WS Carapau cornerkick from right has PS Marcelic head away at 6 yards.
34 min...WS Jurkowski chips shot from 25 yards and goalie swats wide right with WS player behind him.
34 min...WS Carapau cornerkick from right is cleared from box and recross is cleared.
37 min...WS Carapau taps quick freekick from 40 yards and WS Roncone shoots 35 yard roller up middle that goalie smothers.
38 min...WS YELLOW card...Carapau earns it for dissent after offside cvall at PS 25 yard line.
39 min...PS Doros 35 yard shot between players is wide left of net.
42 min...PS Balkhe low 25 yard shot from left deflects off defender and rolls to goalie on left post.
42 min...WS Celso Carapau GOAL...WS Tyler MacFarlane chips pass from 35 yards on left and WS Nathan Cummings heads ball from 25 yards on right that Carapau receives on bounce and one touches shot up middle over flying goalie Jonathan Albanse.
43 min...PS Doros 25 yard shot from right has diving goalie fumble on left post but enough time to recover while protected by defender.
44 min...PS Slewa low 22 yard shot from left into left side webbing of net.
it's raining again.
45 min...WS Carapau cornerkick from left has WS Jurkowski flick 10 yard header well wide right.
46 min...half ends 7:48pm.

2nd Half:...starts 8:02pm.
Halftime subs:...WS Fenton replaces Pattison.
.................WS Seke replaces Vaughan in goal.
46 min...WS Carapau 22 yard freekick from right bends wide left for goalkick on bounce.
47 min...WS Cummings rush on right and rolls 15 yarder along right end line and goalie dives foward for save to prevent WS player's tap-in on left post.
48 min...WS Carapau 35 yard freekick chip has WS player rescue but ball is already over endline.
51 min...WS Carapau cornerkick from left has PS Marcelic leap and head bal away in crowd of players.
52 min...PS sub...Bain replaces Brown.
54 min...PS Balkhe cornerkick from right has PS Fayehun head ball foward from 5 yards and leaping goalie swats away from just under bar. WS defender then kicks ball away.
55 min...PS Slewa cornerkick from left is whistled down in box for jumping on defenders back.
56 min...WS sub...Nazim replaces Moy.
56 min...PS player has low 25 yard kick deflect off defender and roll to goalie.
57 min...PS Marcelic makes sliding tackle to block shot of WS Cummings who had run down right and broken into box. The ball is knocked for a throw-in.
58 min...PS sub...Dowell-Tetrault replaces Kim.
59 min...WS Cummings cross from right end line and the goalie survives being charged into by a WS player on the left post when he bends over to pick up the ball and a defender cleared.
60 min...Pro Lucas Doros GOAL...Pro Philip Balkhe blasts 25 yarder down middle off underside of bar and Pro Doros charges forward to body in rebound from 8 yards up middle past sprawling goalie Sabastien Seke.
61 min...WS player's cornerkick from right is partially cleared. The PS goalie dives to save roller from 7 yards on left post.
62 min...WS Nazim blasts 25 yarder from far right that goalie catches.
63 min...PS player shoots 25 yarder that bends wide right of post.
63 min...WS sub...Al-Khulaidy replaes Roncone.
67 min...WS Carapau 35 yard freekick chip down middle has PS Marcelic head down and clear at 7 yards.
68 min...PS Dowell-Tetrault cross from 20 yards near right end line drifts behind net.
71 min...Pro Michael Fayehun GOAL...Pro Philip Balkhe 28 yard freekick from near right sideline has goalie swat down on right post as he flew over. Fayehun blasts 8 yard rebound from sharp right into left side of empty net.
71 min...WS sub...Ellakrout replaces MacFarlane.
75 min...WS Ellakrudt rush down middle but 25 yard shot is well over net.
77 min...PS Marcelic huge scissor check to brweak up run into box.
78 min...WS Carapau 25 yard freekick from left is through for goalie to stop on left post.
79 min...PS Majoros hurries 28 yard shot wide right of net.
80 min...PS sub...Barrett replaces Albanse in goal.
80 min...WS goalie rushes out to 15 yards to beat PS forward to ball.
84 min...WS Carapau cornerkick from left has PS Marcelic head ball away from 5 yards.
85 min...WS Carapau 30 yard freekick from left is caught by goalie.
86 min...WS Nathan Cummings GOAL...WS Celso Carapau is given backheel pass at 35 yard line on right and cuts to middle and rolls 30 yarder between defenders to Cummings at 15 yards and he rolls 10 yarder from right into left corner of net past sprawling goalie Justin Barrett.
88 min...WS Cummings on 2 on 1 rush up middle from 40 yards has 18 yard shot is stopped point blank by goalie.
88 min...WS Award 20 yard shot is wide right of net.
88 min...PS Rymar 40 yard shot up middle is wide and high right.
90 min...PS Slewa runs up middle deking a defender to be in alone at 15 yards and his shot was partially blocked by the sprawling goalie at 7 yards. PS Balkhe's follow up shot is wide right of the post.
92 min...PS Rymar gets to bounced pass and his 15 yard blast has flying goalie bat wide left of net.
92 min...PS players on cornerkick try to waste time but can't tick off much of clock.
93 min...WS Carapau is given through ball pass that he rolls 12 yard shot wide left of the post.
94 min...WS Al-Khulaidy cross from right has PS defender head away on left side of box.
94 min...game ends 9:51pm.

Final Score:.......Pro Stars FC.......3........Windsor Stars........2.......

Attendance was about 40 with more than that before the game started but many of the children in the far end stands left when it started to rain at the 3 minute mark. The rain soon stopped and restarted a few times but never hard enough for me to stop writing. It never seemed to make the field turf extra slippery. There were no announcements made in the second half as the game crew protected their audio equipment so it took away the glory of Pro Stars players hearing their goals announced.

Both teams changed their goalies during the game. Windsor made the switch at halftime with Sabastien Seke replacing Johnathan Vaughan and Pro Stars subbing Justin Barrett for Jonathan Albanse at 80 minutes.

Windsor started an U-23 lineup in every position except the goalie. Their coaching staff now wear the Windsor TFC logos. The team has changed their name to 'Windsor TFC' since their partnership with Toronto FC in July. Their twitter message mentions that today they were using their Academy team. I'm not sure if that means they won't use their older players or whether their roster was devastated by the older players returning to colleges and universities. They might also have thought they were playing the last place team which had only won two league games this season.

Pro Stars used a lineup that had 14 of their 18 players as U-23s.

Player of the game for me was Pro Stars defender Lucas Marcelic who was a rock in the back with about six blocks and clearances preventing almost sure goals for Windsor. His head was a magnet for Windsor cornerkicks with timely headers out of trouble. He got in some sliding tackles that resulted in throw-ins more often than cornerkicks. He has become a regular starter since coming as a sub in mid June. He is one of their U-23s.

Referee Jose Sanchez-Larios gave one Yellow card that I counted and that was to a Windsor player for dissent after an offside call went against them. The game was mostly wide open.

Best non-scoring changes were at 6 minutes when Pro Walter Rymar received a cross from the left and flicked a 6 yard header wide right of the post. 54 minutes had Pro Philip Balkhe's cornerkick from the right find Pro Michael Fayehun head forward from 5 yards and the leaping goalie swatted away from just under the bar. 57 minutes had Pro Lucas Marcelic made a sliding tackle to block the shot of WS Nathan Cummings who had run down the right and broken into the box. 59 minutes had Cummings cross from the right end line and the goalie survived being charged into by a WS player on the left post when he bent over to pick up the ball and a defender cleared. 88 minutes had Cummings on a 2 on 1 rush up the middle from 40 yards and his 18 yard shot was stopped point blank by the goalie. 90 minutes had Pro Manny Slewa run up the middle deking a defender to be in alone at 15 yards and his shot was partially blocked by the sprawling goalie at 7 yards. Pro Balkhe's follow up shot was wide right of the post. 92 minutes had Pro Rymar get to a bounce pass and his 15 yard blast had the flying goalie bat wide left of the net. 93 minutes had WS Celso Carapau given a through ball pass that he rolled from 12 yards wide left of the post.

The win improves Pro Stars reocrd to 3 wins, 12 losses, 3 ties for 12 points. It pulls them out of the basement into seventh in the eight team Western Conference. The now last place Sanjaxx lost one hour earlier at home to TFC Academy.

The loss drops Windsor's record to 9 wins, 10 losses, 1 tie for 28 points and fifth place in the West.

Rocket Robin
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