July 16, 2022 League1 Ontario...North Mississauga SC vs Electric City FC game report (by Rocket Robin)

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Results and details of the League1 Ontario Men's Premier Division game of Saturday July 16, 2022 between
North Mississauga SC and Electric City FC played at Churchill Meadows Community Centre* in Mississauga at 6:00pm.

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

......................30 Matthew Mattila
12 Nicola Russo...18 Tremayne Julien...4 David Newman...19 Ainsley Bryan
8 Lucas Carvalho...20 Diadie Traore...7 Marcel Tesolin (cpt)...10 Dylan Avila
................23 Quintin Benn-John...11 Jordale Byers

Subs:...31 Owen Edwards (gk)...13 John Gomez...14 Pouya Karami...15 Andrew Demusz
...17 Anas El-Bogi...22 Matthew Perovic...24 Christian Lacuesta
team officials:...team head coach Ramin Mohammadi...assistant coach Adrian Field...therapist Samin Eftekhharnezhad

Electric City FC (all white uniforms, yellow lightning bolt from white shoulder down and across chest, yellow numbers)

.......................18 Quillan Roberts
............4 Bradley Heath...23 Conner Wilson...17 Caden Rogozinski
22 Zachary Ellis-Hayden...7 Ethan Gopaul...14 Daniel Oshana...10 Jordan Webb...13 Davidd Schaefer
.................8 Mohammade Reza Nafar...9 Jordan Brown

Subs:...1 Isaiah Cook (gk)...3 Luke Green...5 Adrian Gallo...6 Tomas Ribeiro...11 Tomas Alvarez
...12 Yuki Mandai...15 Joshua Penello...16 Anthony Barrese...19 Benjamin Vyfschaft
team officials:...team head coach Randy Ribeiro...assistant coach Peter Katsaras

Game officials:...referee David Barrie...referee's assistants Nick Vagenas and Arshio Aliakbari
...fourth official Nivin Raizada...(chartreuse shirts and socks, black shorts)

First Half:...game starts 7:04pm...N Miss defends north end.
2 min...EC Wilson 22 yard short down middle is over bar.
5 min...EC Brown 25 yard blast from right is into near side webbing outside of net.
6 min...ECFC Zachary Ellis-Hayden is pulled down on a run into the right side of the box. Referee David Barrie called
a Penalty kick.
7 min...ECFC Jordan Webb GOAL...Webb blasts Penalty kick low to left side of net out of reach of goalie
Matthew Mattila.
8 min...EC Gopaul on near 2 on 1 reush sends low cross and goalie dives forward to smother at 4 yards on near post.
11 min...ECFC Jordan Brown GOAL...Brown receives crossfield pass at 25 yards on right and 20 yard shot
is into left corner of net.
17 min...EC Webb receives poor NM back pass but defender clears off Webb for goalkick.
20 min...EC Brown wins cornerkick on deflection of end line cross.
20 min...EC players waste short cornerkick from left with pass to center and two blocked shots and fast break out for NM.
21 min...EC Brown pokes ball up before NM goalie can grab it and it's chipped wide right from 12 yards.
23 min...EC Webb is injured at NM 50 yard line.
24 min...EC Gopaul 20 yard shot from far right is into outside webbing of net.
26 min...EC Gopaul can't control pass on right end line.
27 min...EC Reza Nafar 15 yard shot from left has goalie fly forward to save.
28 min...NM YELLOW card...Newman earns it for tackle on EC Brown at NM 45 yard line.
29 min...EC Schaefer runs down left and cross has EC Brown on edge of 6 yard box head over bar.
29 min...A water break is called.
31 min...NM sub...Perovic replaces Traore.
31 min...play resumes.
33 min...EC Ellis-Hayden cross from near right end line is over players in box and defender on left clears off an EC player
to deflect for goalkick.
39 min...ECFC Jordan Brown GOAL...Brown gets pass in box on right and his shot from 12 yards has goalie
slide forward to stop and ball pops up off himself and retreating defender NM Tremayne Julien has it deflect
off him at 5 yards into now empty net on left side.
43 min...EC Ellis-Hayden runs on right and passes through box to open EC Webb who one-touches 7 yarder wide left.
49 min...EC Ellis-Hayden is given ball up right sideline and cuts in to shoot 15 yarder into webbing of net.
49 min...There's no time for a conrerkick nor goalkick as the whistle is blown to end the half.
49 min...half ends 6:51pm.

Halftime: Both team's subs warm up while the starts return to the dressing rooms. The temperature is cooling thankfully.
The breeze has gotten stronger is now from the south.

Second Half:...starts 7:08pm.
Halftime subs:...NM El-Bogi replaces Avila.
.................NM Karami replaces Byers.
.................NM Lacuesta replaces Bryan.
45 min...EC Webb is injured at NM 45 yard line.
47 min...NM player clearance off EC Ellis-Hayden in box pops up in NM box and goalie catches.
51 min...EC Gopaul cross from right is into box and defrenders clear.
54 min...NM Been-John 45 yard shot bounces to goalie.
58 min...EC Reza Nafar 25 yard chip up middle as falling backwards is cleared in box.
59 min...NM Julien is injured in box and needs trainer at NM 45 yard line.
60 min...NM sub...Demusz replaces Benn-John before play resumes.
63 min...NM Julien finally returns to game.
64 min...EC Gopaul low dross from left is into box and defenders block two shots.
67 min...EC Reza Nafar in middle passes forward and EC Gopaul shot from 15 yards near the right endline has goalie fly to push
wide left for cornerkick.
67 min...EC Brown doesn't get to 7 yard shot up middle as defender slides to poke ball for cornerkick.
69 min...NM Nicola Russo is called for a handball when he slides in the NM box at 15 yards on left to stop a low pass into box.
Another Penalty kick call!
70 min...ECFC Jordan Webb GOAL...Webb stutter steps and send Penalty kick to low left corner as goalie crumbles
to middle.
72 min...NM sub...Gomez replaces Carvalho.
73 min...NM Tesolin finishes play with 18 yard shot over net.
78 min...A water bteak is called.
75 min...game resumes.
76 min...NM Lacuesta cleares cross for cornerkick on left.
78 min...EC sub...Alvarez replaces Reza Nafar.
78 min...EC Webb cornerkick from right is low and cleared from box.
80 min...NM Russo clears ball off EC player deflection puts that EC player in alone on left with breakaway. The player eludes
sliding goalie on left edge of box and NM Russo is back in the play to concede cornerkick. EC Gopaul is injured on the play.
83 min...EC subs...Mandai replaces Gopaul.
.........EC sub...Barrese replaces Wilson.
.........EC sub...Green replaces Ellis-Hayden.
84 min...NM Karami can't get to the end of a give and go play and ball rolls over the left end line.
86 min...NM goalie makes point blank stop on defender's give away. It's a 12 yard shot up the middle.
87 min...NM El-Boji turns and shoots 25 yarder down middle that's high and wide left.
90 min...EC goalie is out to 25 yards on left to clear ball ball out of bounds.
93 min...N Miss Andrew Demusz GOAL...NM Nicola Russo passes from 40 yards on right and has Demusz
slide 15 yarder under goalie Quillan Roberts to left corner of net.
94 min...game ends 7:57pm.

Final Score:....North Mississauga SC.......1........Electric City FC........4.......

Attendance was about 60 with this still humid and hot temperature even though it was now evening
and the players needed water breaks. Both teams had played home games on Wednesday night. The bright
sun in the west was not a factor in the north-south alignment of the field. Probably about half
the crowd were cheering for ECFC. The NM supporters were not here tonight so no drumming nor singing;
just a grumpy dad yelling for the home team to move forward instead of backpassing.

*Ok I straightened out the name of this place after reading a tweet/instagram a few weeks ago.
From the front desk of the building, a staff member answered me that the building which holds
the swimming pool, gymnasium, and community rooms will still be called the 'Churchill Meadows
Community Centre'. It has been open for just over one year. There's a sign for passing traffic
with that name that won't have to be changed. It's the soccer fields outdoors that will be now be
called something like 'The Mattamy Homes Soccer Fields'. Mattamy Homes is a huge subdivision home
builder in the GTA. Of course that company already has the 'Mattamy Athletic Centre' in downtown
Toronto which was once known as Maple Leaf Gardens. That complex is now part of Ryerson
University---oops was renamed Toronto Metropolitan University earlier this year. League1 Canada
commissioner Dino Rossi stopped by before the game and he'd read about the name change.
The scoreboards have no ads...so far...and looked like they were financed by the club.

Well this game was almost over competitively at the 10 minute mark. I was just wondering how high
the score would roll up. With a big 3-0 lead by the half, I was surprised the first ECFC substitution
wasn't until 78 minutes. I'd have though with a possible four hour bus ride (that's one way!)
from Peterborough, there'd by the bait of 'I'll let everyone play if we have a big lead'. N Miss
had made all six of their non-goalie subs (the length of their bench tonight) before then including
three at halftime to stir things up.

Referee David Barrie gave out only one card that I counted and that was to N Miss David Newman.
The L1O site agrees but they show it was 29 cards rather than the '1' in the quantity column.
Must have been a rougher tackle on ECFC Jordan Brown than I thought! Actually the minute number
would be useful in judging a game for anyone not present. I'd seen Barrie as a fourth official
in the CPL York vs Pacific game last night and the MLS NEXT Pro Toronto FC II vs Columbus Crew 2 game
last Sunday so nice to see him tonight as the head official.

I saw six ECFC guys (some or all were managers) in the GTA last night at York Lions stadium watching
the CPL game. I'm sure some of their interest was in watching York back up goalie Eleias Himaras
(the ECFC co-starting goalie) who didn't get to play. He appears to have taken the place
of Matthew Nogueira who someone has pointed out has vanished from the club roster on their web site.
Last year Quillan Roberts started all the games for one-year-and-out L1O club 1812 FC Barrie. I don't
know how he played the game after he was red carded but his presence was listed on the L1O website
at the time. This season Roberts missed some time playing for the Guyanese national team so good
for both the club and the man that there is a back-up.

Although I had never seen Electric City play, I recognized many names from their roster playing
for FC London, and Blue Devils FC last season. Head coach Randy Ribeiro was an assistant coach with
London last season. At the start of the season, the London head coach was to have coached ECFC but
stepped down before the season began and an English guy took over without too much success.

ECFC and Simcoe County Rovers have assembled all-star teams by picking the rosters of other teams for
their first year. Only problem with ECFC is they listed only five of twenty on their roster born
'this century' (ie since 2000). That may be a problem in the years to come with the league having
a restriction on those aged 23 and over. Contrast that with N Miss who listed 12 of 18 born in 2000
or later. ECFC better get those youth academy partnerships going quickly.

Only thing I didn't like about Electric City was the kits they wore. White uniforms with yellow numbers
are just about unreadable unless the players are near the sidelines and after ten minutes of action
when the players start sweating it's even harder. If my description of their goals is a little vague,
I couldn't be sure who got the assists even with a pair of binoculars. I don't expect it to be cleared
up by the league capture of the game as the camera was pointing into the sun. These uniforms were
Sanjaxx Lions (RIP) bad. Actually Sanjaxx did wear yellow on white in their time in the league
and I remember choosing an alternate game to avoid watching them. This year after seeing Masters
no longer ever wearing graduated pink numbers on graduating white to red kits (also unreadable),
I thought the league had finally pre-approved all kits. I was assured by some of their players after
the game that they wear black at home with yellow numbers! Great but for the road....black numbers
on white even keeping the yellow lightning bolt would have been so much better.

Electric City was the only team I hadn't seen this year. It's taken me 26 games to see everybody...some
up to seven times. Now what? There may be enough time left to see everybody twice before the season
ends. Seeing St Catharines in a game earlier today brings the 'only seen once' total down to nine.
It may take some creative scheduling to pull it off.

By the time I got home, all the Saturday games had finished. With only one game on Sunday, that
result won't change the positions of either team in this game.

North Mississauga's record falls to 4 wins, 10 losses, 2 ties for 14 points. Their goals for/against
worsens to -21 (22 for 43 against). They are now in eighteenth in the twenty two team division.

Electric City improve their record to 7 wins, 5 losses, 3 ties for 24 points. Their goals for/against
is +7 (24-17). They move up to ninth place. Some message board poster reminded everyone that this
was their first win on the road.

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. Currently
to be twelfth, you need 20 points. (current table results until end of Saturday night)

I also scheduled a post game interview with ECFC head coach Randy Ribero. That means I've spoke
to a coach/co-coach/assistant coach from every team the first time I've seen them play. Some of the
questions have had to be altered as the begining of the season optimism has waned by Week 13.

Interview with Randy Ribero: (8 minutes, 40 seconds) (audio recorded by Rocket Robin) Your thoughts on today's game? How did you recruit your players? Did you hold open try outs like other teams to fill out your roster? Do you have any local guys and local youth team associations yet? How useful is it to have two quality goalies? How has the team improved since the rough go at the start of the season? Does the ownership still have ambitions to have a CPL team? How important is to survive at the top in the division split to Top 12/Next 10 by 2024? Did you ever think when you played for Toronto Lynx that you'd ever be a coach? What would you say to your old Lynx coach Duncan Wilde when you play Blue Devils FC?