July 23, 2022 League1 Ontario...Prostars FC vs Windsor TFC game report (by Rocket Robin)

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Results and details of the League1 Ontario Men's Premier Division game of Saturday July 23, 2022 between
Prostars FC vs Windsor TFC played at Victoria Park in Brampton at 7:00pm.

Prostars FC (all blue uniforms, white numbers)

......................24 Jared Maloney
12 Alexander Zis...39 Baryal Khan...6 Victor Gallo (cpt)...36 Al James
40 Chidiebere Nnolim...25 Joshua Parades...41 Markiyan Voytsekhovskyy...7 Faris Ammari
............2 Carlo Difeo...10 Ameer Kinani

Subs:...8 Santiago Patarroyo...20 Marcos Nunes...29 Juian Desousa...32 Uday Arora
...33 Isaiah Noel...34 Christopher Campoli...35 Maceo Harrison...38 Brandley Ogbevuon
...42 Mashood Rehman
team officials:...team head coach John Yacao...equipment manager Rahael Bell...therapist Calyn Garraway

Windsor TFC (all white uniforms, red numbers)

....................1 Joshua Savoni
2 Marc David Siegel...3 Ilija Pavicic...35 Riley Drkulec...6 Dillon Hayes
22 Hassani Kamara...20 Andrii Amonov...13 Zachary Thomas...4 Bastian Aguilera (cpt)
...............7 Dylan Satto...9 Nestor Lopez

Subs:...12 Denys Cuevas (gk)...8 Paolo Davia...14 Dante Conflitti...15 James Clarke
...16 Matias Reyes...17 Mason Clark...18 Matthew Andres...19 Cesar Salan
team officials:...team head coach Valter Cosenza...assistant coach Rob Arce...managers Shane Topalovic
and Vancho Cirovski...equipment manager Paulo Parreira...therapists Bogdan Suciu and Ryan Thomas

Game officials:...referee Robert Reid...referee's assistants Parsa Norouzian and Kevin Kim
...fourth official Mehdi Boutarfa...(red shirts and socks, black shorts)

First Half:...start 7:00pm...Prostars defend east end.
3 min...PS Nnolim cross from 20 yards near right end line is headed away on near post by defender.
3 min...PS Zis cornerkick from rightis headed away on near post. The rebound is eventually crossed over the box from the right.
4 min...Prostars Alexander Zis GOAL...A Prostars player crosses from 18 yards on the left and Zis one-touches
a mid-air shot from 18 yards to the top left corner of the net beyond goalie Joshua Savoni.
6 min...PS Zis 40 yard chip from right is caught by goalie.
9 min...W Lopez head ball back to W goalie to break up play.
10 min...PS goalie clearance of ball from box deflects off a W player and he has to dive to save it.
10 min...W Amonov 30 yard shot from left is well over net.
12 min...W Amonov is injured at PS 45 yard line.
16 min...W Amonov 35 yard freekick from left is over players heads on right side of box and out over right end line for goalkick.
20 min...W Kamara runs ball over right endline on sideline run.
23 min...W Hayes and PS Nnolim are in a crash of heads at center line. Both players need their trainers.
.........The referee calls a water break.
.........W YELLOW card...Hayes earns it for his part in the last play.
25 min...Play resumes.
27 min...Windsor RED card...manager Vancho Cirovski is ejected from the game. He eventually comes over to the stands
on the other side of the field. I saw him kick a table, maybe it was the trainer's table and the fourth official signalled
to referee Robert Reid about the incident.
27 min...PS Ammari rushes from right across box and cuts 18 yard shot high and left of net.
29 min...PS Kinani shoots roller from 18 yards on right wide right of goal.
31 min...W Aguilera blasts 30 yarder down middle wide left.
34 min...PS players have shot blocked after short cornerkick.
36 min...PS Nnolim run down right and rolls centering cross into box that defender clears.
38 min...PS Zis cornerkick from right has PS Kinani chest ball wide left from 6 yards in crowd of players on leap.
40 min...Prostars Ameer Kinani GOAL...PS Faris Ammari crossed from 22 yards on left and Kinani jumps forward
and heads 10 yarder into top right corner of net.
42 min...PS Nnolim cross from 15 yards on right is cleared by defenders.
44 min...W Lopez blasts 40 yarder between players that goalie catches.
45 min...PS Kinani takes advantage of defender to goalie mess up and crosses over to PS Nnolim has 20 yard blast down
the middle that's high andd wide right of net.
50 min...half ends 7:50pm.

Halftime: PS regulars return back to dressing room. The W regulars and both sets of substitutes stay outside.
The temperature is thankfully cooling down.

Second Half:...starts 8:04pm.
halftime subs:...W Davia replaces Amonov.
.................W Andres replaces Kamara.
.................PS sub...Nunes replaces Nnolim.
47 min...PS Kinani cross from 25 yards on right is over players in box.
48 min...PS Nunes has 22 yard shot on right is blocked.
49 min...PS Ammari on left bends 25 yard shot wide right of net.
54 min...W Andres 40 yard freekick from left is high and wide right.
55 min...PS Ammari rolls ball too far forward for PS Voytsekhovskyy and goalie is out to smother on left.
56 min...W goalie is out to right side of box to smother a ball.
56 min...PS Ammari rush on left and rolls 15 yarder that's stopped.
57 min...PS sub...Campoli replaces Voytsekhovskyy.
59 min...PS wins cornerkick off shot off defender after not being awarded a Penalty kick seconds earlier.
59 min...PS Zis cornerkick from left is low and cleared by defender on near post for throw-in.
60 min...PS Zis has shot from right edge of box is blocked.
61 min...PS Ammari 22 yard shot from left has goalie catch on top right of goal.
62 min...Prostars Alexander Zis GOAL...PS Christopher Campoli taps pass forward up left for PS Faris Ammari
who runs towards end line and rolls ball along 5 yard line. Zis sticks foot forward near left post and redirects
it under sprawling goalie into center of net.
63 min...W Lopez 55 yard kick is chipped wide left.
64 min...PS Kinani low cross from 22 yards on far right has goalie dive forward to smother.
66 min...PS Nunes chip from 7 yards is called offside.
67 min...PS sub...Desousa replaces Parades.
.........PS sub...Isiah Noel replaces Khan.
.........W sub...Salan replaces Satto.
68 min...PS Gallo high cross forward on left to PS Ammari and he has a chance.
69 min...A water break is called.
.........PS sub...Arora replaces Ammari.
70 min...play resumes.
71 min...PS Zis sent breakaway ball over defenders but his 12 yard chip is caught by goalie.
73 min...PS sub...Rehman replaces Zis.
74 min...PS Kinani kicks ball over W net after whistle blown but referee lets it go.
76 min...PS Gallo blasts 40 yard shot over players and well over net.
80 min...PS James chips 28 yarder from left wide right of net.
81 min...PS sub...Ogevuon replaces James.
82 min...PS Isaiah Noel makes key headed clearance of W cross in PS box from left.
83 min...PS Nunes is chipped pass over defenders and his one-touch shot from 15 yards is over net to hit back fence.
84 min...W Lopez chips 10 yard shot off deflection which goalie catches.
85 min...PS Campoli run on left to end line and crosses through box. PS Arora has one yard tap-in on right post but puts
it over net.
87 min...PS Campoli receives freekick crossfield roller at 25 yards and blasts shot between players that goalie catches.
88 min...PS goalie catches high chip cross from left running forward then has to ball sideways to stay inside box.
90 min...PS Gallo heads away W Davia cross from 12 yards.
93 min...PS YELLOW card...Nunes earns it for knock down of W player at PS 50 yard line.
93 min...game ends 8:52pm.

Final Score:......Prostars FC........3........Windsor TFC.........0.........

Attendance started off slow and picked up to a peak of about 50 near halftime. This game
started with a heat of 34C or worse and gradually cooled by halftime (well cool if you were
watching from the stands but still brutal to play in). The sun was burning down from the
southwest by the time the game started and the game finished before it got dark.

Prostars dominated this game from the start and whether running into or away from the sun,
the action was mostly in the Windsor end. Prostars best rushes were on the counterattack
when Windsor finally got out of their own end but turned the ball over and then Prostars
charged forward.

Jared Maloney earned the shutout for Prostars without a lot of work to do. I watched him
in a shooting match almost a month ago be shelled with constant shots while playing for
that night's understrength Unionville Milliken and holding the powerhouse North Toronto Nitros
to a 2-1 win.

I chose this game from a choice of three in the GTA because time is running out on me seeing
every team twice so Windsor would check another team off my list and although this would
be my fourth time seeing Prostars this season, I hadn't watched them play since May 13 but
I would catch their linescores and see they were gradually climbing the table. Why were
they improving?

So tonight's roster of 20 on the list, I counted 12 from earlier games I'd watched but there
were more guys I recognized. A Google search at home revealed they had been picking up guys
from other teams before the roster freeze a few weeks ago. Eight new guys? Alexander Zis
started this season for Guelph United, Carlo Difeo for Blue Devils FC, Santiago Patarroyo
for Scrosoppi FC, goalie Jared Maloney for Unionville-Milliken, Uday Arora for Alliance United,
Marcos Nunes (for Woodbridge in the preCovid era), and Bradley Ogbevuon and Christopher Campoli
from North Mississauga SC. Campoli has been a U-Sports Draft pick of CPL teams York United FC
and HFX Wanderers over the last two years so I'm sure he wants to keep his name up there
on a playoff team rather than an also ran.

I lamented about Simcoe County Rovers and Electric City FC coming into the league this season
and scooping up a lot of all-stars but ProStars has been collecting players while the season
has gone on.

Windsor manager Vancho Cirovski said to me after the game that being in Brampton, Prostars can
attract a lot of mature players whereas in Windsor he can't get older players to travel and so his
roster averages age 21. From today's game sheet I counted 14 of his 19 players were born this
century. Prostars list 10 of 20 and have two 1992 'geezers'. Prostars look like they'll have
a roster that will stay together when the playoffs start while there a few teams I can think
of that will have players tell their coach “Well thanks but it's back to school for me” when
the playoffs start near the end of August.

Windsor did come in a coach but it would still be 350km each way. It's not all expressway so let's
say four hours here and four hours back without traffic.

Prostars academy director Josef Komlodi sat in the stands and was throwing up his hands when his
players were shooting wide or being checked off the ball. He was maddest however at the referee
and one referee's assistant, Kevin Kim for being strict on the offside calls against Prostars.
Kim was consistant and called them the same way when the teams switched ends but when I called
that out, Komlodi was on his phone and didn't see the play.

Referee Robert Reid gave out only two Yellow cards to players (one to each team). I overheard him
say before the game that he may have to switch places with Kim but he held out and finished the game.
He scheduled a water break in each half which was greatly appreciated by the players as they could
talk a little strategy besides rehydrate.

Some explanation leading up to the Red card. At 23 minutes WTFC Dillon Hayes and PS Chidiebere Nnolim
crashed heads at the center line and both players needed their team trainers. The referee called
for a water break as nothing was going to happen anyway with the players being examined. He also
gave a Yellow card to Hayes as the instigator. When play finally resumed Nnolim was waved back
into play almost instantly whereas Hayes was held back and was also out of position as a defender
on the wrong side of the field. Manager Cirovski told me and Komlodi that's what made him mad
and he was trying to kick a water bottle off the table but oops, there went the whole table getting
the fourth official to call over referee Reid.

By the time I got home, all the Saturday games had finished*. OK Masters vs Pickering never got
started because the goals were deemed by the referee to be 'structually unsound' (read the tweet
from the league...glad I didn't go to that one!)

Prostars' record improves to 11 wins, 5 losses, 1 tie for 34 points. That's currently fifth
in the league out of twenty-two teams.

Windsor's record falls to 4 wins, 11 losses, 2 ties for 14 points. They are placed seventeenth
(a four way tie for sixteenth) because they have a better goals for/against record than all but
Burlington SC. Windsor's +/- record is -18. Yikes North Mississauga and Unionville-Milliken
are even worse.

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)

Rocket Robin
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