June 24, 2022 League1 Ontario...North Mississauga SC vs Sigma FC game report (by Rocket Robin)

Results and details of the League1 Ontario Men's Premier Division game of Friday June 24, 2022 between
North Mississauga SC and Sigma FC played at Churchill Meadows in Mississauga at 8:00pm.

North Mississauga SC (red socks and shirts, black shorts, white numbers)

........................30 Matthew Mattila
16 Deshawn Palmer-Agyemang...18 Tremayne Julien...4 David Newman...14 Pouya Karami
22 Matthew Perovic...7 Marcel Tesolho (cpt)...9 Dylan Avila...8 Lucas Carvalho
...............15 Jordale Byers...20 Lee-Victor Massunda

Subs:...31 Owen Edwards (gk)...5 Martijn Radan Strong...10 Anas El-Bogi...11 Quinton Benn-John
...13 John Gomez...17 Mustafa Al-Azzawi...21 Alessandro Prataviera...24 Christian Lacuesta
25 Trevon Weatherall
team officials:...team head coach Ramin Mohammadi...assistant coach Adrian Field...therapist Samin Eftekhhamezhad

Sigma FC (all white uniforms, blue numbers and shoulders)

..........................31 Eduard Amrbus
14 Yousef Helmy...3 Santiago Frias...15 Aaron D'Souza...4 Oluwageun Oyegunle
............2 Malcolm Duncan...8 Andres Delascio...6 Faisal Ghaffur (cpt)
...........19 Jason Squeo...9 Marcus Caldeira...12 Nino Nikolovski

Subs:...1 Amar Dhindsa (gk)...5 Joshua Miller...16 Brendan Auguste...17 Daniel Oginni
...18 Robbie Cleary...20 Gabriel Goransson...21 Domenico Folino...22 Daniel Stampatori
...23 Mohamed Alshakman
team officials:...team head coach John Zervos...assistant coach David Igreja...therapist Liam MacPherson

Game officials:...referee Melvin Christopher...referee's assistants Phil Benevides and Arshia Aliakbari
...fourth official David Giannotti...(chartreuse socks and shirts, black shorts)

First Half:...game starts 8:02pm...NM defends north end on this hot evening with a bright setting sun in the north west.
1 min...NM goalie dives at 15 yards to beat Sigma Squeo to through ball on left.
3 min...Sigma Ghaffur 25 yard freekick from slight left is low and into player wall.
4 min...Sigma goalie is out to beat NM Massunda to through ball.
7 min...NM Palmer-Agyemang chips 25 yarder on right high and wide left of net.
13 min...Sigma D'Souza wins cornerkick on cross from left end line.
14 min...Sigma Ghaffur cornerkick from left is to Sigma Nikolovski who chips 22 yarder from slight left to near right post.
Another Sigma player takes a 10 yard low shot that the goalie stops on the near post. The rebound is crossed through
the box unplayed.
17 min...NM Avila cross from right is over head of leaping NM Carvalho at 6 yards on left post. An NM player crosses back
and two Sigma headers give up cornerkick.
18 min...NM Carvalho cornerkick from right is caught by goalie on left post.
19 min...Sigma players are called offside for about the fourth time in the game so far.
20 min...NM Palmer-Agyemang runs to 20 yards on right but defender blocks his shot.
23 min...N Miss Lucas Carvalho GOAL...NM Deshawn Palmer-Agyemang cross from 20 yards on right has Carvalho
charge to shoot low 15 yarder from left between players into right corner of net past diving goalie Eduard Amrbus.
28 min...Sigma Squeo cross from 25 yards on right for Sigma Nikolovski to bend 20 yarder on left inward bender wide left
of net.
30 min...Sigma Squeo low 22 yard shot deflects for cornerkick.
30 min...Sigma Nikolovski cornerkick from right has NM Julien pop up ball over end line on left for cornerkick.
31 min...Sigma Delascio cornerkick from left has defenders head away in two pop ups.
32 min...Sigma Caldeira has ball pushed over end line by defender on his runs down right.
32 min...Sigma player's cornerkick from right is caught by goalie in crowd of players.
33 min...NM Byers on far right passes to NM Tesolho has him run around and away from goalie then cross through 6 yard box
which is unplayed and out left side of box.
36 min...Sigma Ghaffur arcs 35 yarder over players in box and over NM net.
38 min...NM YELLOW card...Newman earns it for high check on Sigma players running by him on right sideline.
39 min...Sigma Nikolovski 35 yard freekick from right sideline has ball cleared.
40 min...NM goalie dives forward to smother rolled cross from right near right post.
40 min...NM goalie pushes shot forward then rushes forward to smother ball.
41 min...N Miss Lee-Victor Massunda GOAL...Massunda and NM Lucas Carvalho give and go play finishes with
Carvalho chipping ball forward up left for Massunda who rolls 12 yarder from near end line between players
into right corner of net.
43 min...NM goalie stops 25 yarder roller up middle.
44 min...Sigma Duncan takes NM clearance in the face on edge of NM 18 yard box.
45 min...NM goalie leaps in crowd of players to catch chip into box at 15 yards.
46 min...half ends 8:48pm.

Halftime the subs warm up for both teams as the sun is setting in the north west and is below the tree line. It's also cooler now.

Second Half:...starts 9:04pm.
46 min...NM Massunda long run up right and low cross through box is unplayed.
47 min...NM D'Souza low shot on right has goalie slide to stop on near post.
47 min...Sigma YELLOW card...Squeo earns it for rather lame fall running out of NM box and not winning Penalty kick call.
49 min...NM Avila 40 yard freekick from left wins a cornerkick on header near right post.
50 min...NM Avila cornerkick from right has defender head away.
54 min...Retreating Sigma Frias slides to tip NM Tesolho 15 yard shot wide right of goal.
54 min...NM Avila cornerkick from right has defender head ball through box.
55 min...N Miss Jordale Byers GOAL...NM Pouya Karami sends cross from left that finds Byers in open
and he blasts 15 yarder over goalie just under bar in center of net.
56 min...Sigma player runs to right end line but sends his shot behind the net.
57 min...Sigma sub...Miller replaces D'Souza.
...........Sigma sub...Alshakman replaces Helmy.
58 min...NM Perovic runs up middle and 20 yard shot is just wide left of top corner of net.
59 min...Sigma Caldeira wins cornerkick on cross along left end line tipped by sliding defender.
59 min...Sigma Alshakman cornerkick from left has Sigma player not fully able to turn header and ball is wide right for goalkick.
60 min...NM gaolie misses catching ball but defender clears.
62 min...Sigma Frias blasts 45 yarder through players from right that goalie bats away.
63 min...Sigma sub...Cleary replaces Nikolovski.
...........NM sub...Al-Azzawi replaces Avila.
63 min...NM Al-Azzawi pops freekick cross from 45 yards on left wide right for goalkick.
64 min...Sigma players can't getaway clear shot on target with goalie down on three tries.
65 min...NM Tremayne Julien drags down Sigma Marcus Caldeira near left end line who had turned behind him on receiving
a throw-in. Referee Melvin Christopher calls for a Penalty kick.
65 min...Sigma Mohamed Alshakman GOAL...Alshakman sends Penalty kick low to left corner of net beyond diving goalie Matthew Mattila.
............N Miss YELLOW card...Mattila earns it for holding onto ball then punting it away so Alshakman couldn't send the ball
back to center for a fast restart.
67 min...NM sub...El-Bogi replaces Carvalho.
69 min...Sigma Squeo wins cornerkick on right on 10 yard deflected shot.
69 min...Sigma players short cornerkick is wasted when not crossed into box.
73 min...Sigma sub...Goransson replaces Delascio.
...........NM sub...Gomez replaces Byers.
73 min...Sigma YELLOW card...Duncan earns it for tackle on defender at NM 15 yard line on wide right.
75 min...Sigma Caldeira cross from left has Sigma Cleary header from 8 yards twisted to right but goalie flies to push ball
wide right of post.
76 min...Sigma sub...Oginni replaces Squeo.
77 min...Sigma goalie is out to top right corner to beat NM Gomez to through ball pass.
78 min...NM sub...Strong replaces Al-Azzawi.
79 min...NM goalie leaps to catch cross in front of Sigma Cleary at 7 yards.
82 min...Sigma sub...Folino replaces Ghaffur.
83 min...NM Tesolho cornerkick from right has defender head away. Sigma goalie catches 30 yard rebound chip.
83 min...Sigma Miller races to save ball on NM left end line. Sigma Caldeira tips 12 yarder over bar.
85 min...Sigma Cleary low 25 yard shot up middle is wide right after recovering bouncer.
88 min...Sigma Goransson is injured and needs trainer but Sigma have made their max in subs.
92 min...Sigma goalie is out to 40 yard line to clear through ball ahead of NM Gomez.
93 min...Sigma player checked off ball on left side of box on 1 v 2 rush.
94 min...NM Gomez is injured on bump by Sigma Frias as he jumped for header at Sigma 40 yard line and will need trainer.
NM El-Bogi gets loose ball and races up left and blasts low 12 yard shot from left that sprawling goalie saves at 5 yards
then gets up to pick up rebound at 12 yards. The whistle is blown to tend to Gomez.
95 min...game ends 9:54pm.

Final Score:...North Mississauga SC.......3........Sigma FC..........1........

Attendance was about 120 at its peak in the second half. Most of the crowd were from the N Miss boys
teams looking like the oldest was U-10 plus all the parents that were with them. I only saw two others
besides myself with Credit River Cup scarves but it was a hot evening. The N Miss supporters were about
eight but some of the kids joined them. Their chants were rated G with “Can you Sigma sing...I don't
hear ANYthing” not offending any parents. The club got to play on their premier field, the one with
the large scoreboard. The seating is portable aluminum stand sections so they only had as many as the
other field but that could be changed for 'big' games but there was a game or practice at the other field
during the first half of our game. Both pitches are the most modern of field turf.

Sigma had been called offside at least four times by the 19 minute mark then held up and found it hard
to break through. NM goalie Matthew Mattila stopped a rally at 75 minutes when Sigma Marcus Caldeira
sent a cross into the box from the left and Jason Squeo twisted a header from 8 yards in the center
towards the right corner of the net but Mattila flew over and pushed it wide of the post. 83 minutes
had Sigma Joshua Miller race to save a ball on the NM left end line and crossed to Sigma Marcus Caldeira
who tipped a 12 yarder over the bar. Just one of those nights!

Referee Melvin Christopher gave out only four Yellow cards (two to each team) with him having not many
reasons to get involved.

My special thanks to N Miss Massunda and Byers for helping me fill in the assists on their goals.
The game was being live-streamed on YouTube so I would have figured that out but I didn't realize
how the camera work is so much better in these games than the cam-on-a-pole recording that most
games have.

This game was part of the Credit River Cup supporters group's four team competition. They use regular
L1O matches between the four teams against each other to decide the winner. Current leader Pro Stars FC
have completed their schedule with a record of 2 wins, and 1 tie for 7 points. They weren't even
invited to last year's competition for being 'not really from Mississauga'. Simcoe County Rovers from
Barrie who by L1O scheduling had all home games against the others are the invitees this year and hold
a record of 1 loss, 1 tie for 1 point so they can't win this year. Sigma also had a record of 1 loss,
1 tie for 1 point up to tonight so they couldn't win. North Mississauga had only played one game until
tonight, that was against Pro Stars which ended in a 4-4 tie. N Miss have a chance still with a record
now of 1 win, 1 tie for 4 points so they have to win away to Simcoe on July 8th. One of the CRC guys
that I saw tonight said the trophy wasn't here tonight but it N Miss hadn't won, Pro Stars would
be presented with the cup at their next home game.

Tonight's result was somewhat of a surprise to me as North Mississauga hadn't won in their last five
games and their last game was last Sunday in Hamilton where they lost 10-2 against Hamilton United Elite.
Interesting that NM David Newman bookended all those HUE goals. NM used one goalie for each half,
five goals against each but neither one was Matthew Mattila. Good way to bounce back!

The win improves North Mississauga's record to 4 wins, 6 losses, 2 ties for 14 points. That result
moves them up from nineteenth to thirteenth place.

Sigma hadn't won in their previous three games but their losses were to undefeated Vaughan Azzurri,
then they had scoreless ties against 2021 champs Guelph United and new glamour team Simcoe County Rovers.

Sigma's record falls to 4 wins, 5 losses, 3 ties for 15 points. With last night's other three game
results known by the time I got home, they fell one spot to eleventh being passed by Scrosoppi FC
but there are a lot of teams still to play this weekend.

Top six teams this season make the playoffs. Top twelve averaged over the next two years survive
the division split in the Premier Division with the other ten in the Championship Division.

Big surprise was 'why was I here?'. Just a few days ago, Toronto FC II posted a tweet that tonight's
game against Inter Miami had been postponed until September 14th with no explanation given. OK well
a great reason for living in the GTA is there's usually another game taking place so I put this one
in my planner.

Rocket Robin
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