June 17, 2023 League1 Ontario Men's Premier Division...Scrosoppi FC vs FC London game report (by Rocket Robin)

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Result and details of the Saturday June 17, 2023 League1 Ontario Men's Premier Division game between
Scrosoppi FC and FC London played at Ontario Soccer Centre Stadium in Vaughan at 6:00pm.

Scrosoppi FC (all black uniforms, white numbers)

.....................1 Andres Vaikia
.........2 Carlo Difeo...12 Luke Rankin...6 Victor Gallo (cpt)
36 Danny Medeiros...13 Manveer Gill...4 Joshua Parades...17 Marcus Channer
...........21 Alexander Zis...8 Tomasz Skublak...11 Faris Ammari

Subs:...22 Jordan Watkins (gk)...7 Omari Cotterell...9 Mauro Lulli...10 Nikolas Blaskovic
...15 Anthony Stolar...18 Marcus Velado-Tsegaye...20 Santiago Patarroyo...27 Santiago Ubate
team officials:...team head coach John Yacou...assistant coach Luis Domingos...manager Shayne Griffin
...therapist Michael Wong

FC London (white socks and shirts, red shorts and numbers)

.......................12 Darlington Ngonidedzaishe Murasiranwa
4 Brandon Miranjie...18 Lewis Dye...3 Gianmaria Fiore...25 Kelsey Egwu
8 Ryan Baker...5 Mateo Goldsztein Herrara...6 James Wilcox...10 Kuhle Bekwayo (cpt)
.................9 Mike Sneddon...35 Carson Wood

Subs:...44 Christian Davakos (gk)...2 Sosa Emovon...7 Samuel Barrowcliffe...14 Alexander Nagy
...20 David Bulos...22 Justin Wood...29 Nick Ferreira...34 Efosa Emonvon
team officials:...team head coach Yiannis Tsalatsidis...assistant coach Adam Mooi
...managers Andrii Mozerov and Michael Silvera...euipment manager Conor Walsh...therapist Emma Elliot
suspended player:...Santiago Fonseca

Game officials:...referee David Barrie...referee's assistants Vasyl Dzikh and Nick Vagenas
...fourth official Marko Grubesic...(red socks and shirts, black shorts)

First Half:...game starts 6:02pm...Scrosoppi defends north end. There's a bright sun in the north west.
There's a strong crossfield field breeze from the east.
2 min...Lon Baker low 20 yard from left has shot stopped and cleared by defender at 6 yards.
2 min...Scrosoppi Tomasz Skublak GOAL...Skublak heads 7 yarder down middle just under bar over arms of goalie
Darlington Ngonidzaishe Murasiranwa. The cross was sent over from Scr Alexander Zis.
4 min...Scr Gill intercepts goalie's clearance at 30 yards in middle and quick roller has goalie stop.
7 min...Lon goalie is out to 20 yards to clear from Scr Skublak from getting to through ball.
8 min...Scr Ammari 20 yard blast from left has defender on near post deflect wide for deflect over net for cornerkick.
8 min...Scr player's cornerkick from right wins another one as Lon Carson Wood shanks clearance kick.
9 min...Scr Medeiros cornerkick from right is cleared by defenders.
11 min...Scr Skublak is fed through ball on right at 45 yard line and cuts to middle and tries 20 yard chip over sliding goalie
who gets hand to bat away at 15 yards.
14 min...Scr Skublak is bumped into by defender as he receives pass at 15 yards and deflects it over line for goalkick.
16 min...Lon defenders recover from giveaway by checking Scr Skublak on left before he can shoot or pass.
17 min...Scr Skublak leaps and heads 6 yarder wide right from middle on cross from Scr Difeo from right.
24 min...Scr player's cross from right has defender clear off player back to goalie to smother.
26 min...Lon Bekwayo can't get past fourth defender on run into left side of box and is checked to start fast break out.
30 min...Lon Bekwayo pass forward to Lon Baker and bends low 22 yarder that goalie bats down and picks up.
32 min...Scr Zis on 2 on 1 has defender block centering cross. Scr Medeiros chips high cross from right that bounces
wide left for goalkick.
33 min...Scr Skublak makes through ball pass to Scr Zis but goalie is out to 15 yards to pick up ball.
34 min...Scr Ammari low centering pass from left end line has Scr Medeiros wins cornerkick on tipped shot.
35 min...Scr player's cornerkick from left has defender on left head ball through box.
36 min...Scr Zis cornerkick from right has Scr Skublak head ball forward from 8 yards in crowd wide right of post.
38 min...Scr Parades pass forward to Scr Zis who touches ball over left end line trying to round goalie.
39 min...Scr Ammari run along left end line has defender clear low centering pass.
40 min...Lon Medeiros wins cornerkick on deflection of cross near cornerflag.
41 min...Lon Baker cornerkick from right has defender head away. The rebound chip is popped up and caught by the goalie.
A Scr player is injured on the play in the box.
42 min...Scr Channer cross chip from 25 yards is cleared.
43 min...Lon Bekwayo 20 yard shot down middle has Scr Gill slide and ball pops up for goalie to catch.
44 min...Scr Channer and Scr Ammari on give and go on left works the ball upfield.
45 min...Scrosoppi Tomasz Skublak GOAL...Scr Faris Ammari rolls short pass along right end line
from 10 yards leaving Skublak a 1 yard tap in on the left side of net.
46 min...half ends 6:48pm.

Halftime: Only the Scrosoppi substitutes stay out to warm up. The London subs were warming up much of the first half.

Second Half:...starts 7:08pm.
Halftime subs:...London Sasa Emovon replaces Goldsztein Herrara.
...................London Efosa Emovon replaces Sneddon.
46 min...Lon Carson Wood weaves down middle and gets away 22 yard shot tha goalie catch.
48 min...Scrosoppi Danny Medeiros GOAL...Medeiros intercepts pass at 45 yard line on right and passes forward
to Scr Tomasz Skublak for run up right and he holds up when he gets to just outside right side of box and crosses
through box. A Scr player receives it on the left and centers for Scr Faris Ammari who blasts 8 yard shot off
the bar. The ball deflects out for Medeiros to chip 12 yard rebound into center of net.
52 min...Lon sub...Ferreira replaces Baker.
53 min...Scr Ammari low 15 yard shot through crowd of players in box is smothered by goalie.
54 min...Lon Wilcox cornerkick from left has Scr Skublak pop header over box on near post.
55 min...Lon player's cornerkick from right has Lon player head ball from left side of box. Lon Efosa Emovon 5 yard header
is caught by goalie.
56 min...Lon goalie is out to punch cross from left away before Scr Skublak can head ball at 8 yards.
58 min...Lon YELLOW card...Fiore earns it for kick in head on Scr Skublak who was ducking for header at Lon 45 yard line.
59 min...Scr Medeiros cross from 22 yards along right endline drifts behind net.
60 min...Lon Egwu blast at 12 yards deflects off Scr Medeiros for cornerkick. Scr Channer is injured on play and needs trainer.
62 min...Scr sub...Cotterell replaces Medeiros.
............Scr sub...Stolar replaces injured Channer.
63 min...Lon Wilcox cornerkick from left has Scr Gallo head away.
63 min...Lon Wilcox cornerkick from left is short and Lon Carson Wood cross has goalie catch while drifting over to right post.
64 min...Scr Zis cornerkick from right has Lon Fiore concede another cornerkick.
64 min...Scr Zis cornerkick from right has charging Scr Skublak flick header from 15 yards on right just missing top left
corner of net.
67 min...Scr goalie is out to 25 yards to beat Lon Efosa Emovon to ball in middle.
68 min...Lon Efosa Emovon run on left rolls centering pass to Lon Carson Wood who has low 20 yard shot stopped point blank
by goalie. A Scr defender shields the rebound from Lon Carson Wood and clears ball.
70 min...Lon goalie punches ball away before Scr Skublak can head 6 yarder.
71 min...Scr YELLOW card...Gill earns it for tackle at Scr 50 yards preventing break in.
74 min...Scr sub...Lulli replaces Ammari.
74 min...Scr Skublak dekes three guys up right side and ends up winning cornerkick.
75 min...Scr Zis cornerkick has Scr Parades on left head 12 yarder through crowd of players that goalie catches on near post.
76 min...Lon sub...Bulos replaces Carson Wood.
............Lon sub..Justin Wood replaces Fiore.
............Scr sub...Velado-Tsegaye replaces Skublak.
78 min...Scr sub...Blaskovic replaces Zis.
79 min...Scr Lulli holds off defender to get away low cross through 6 yard box from right is unplayed.
81 min...Scr Gallo 25 yard freekick from left has goalie palm over ball.
82 min...Scr Blaskovic short cornerkick from left is crossed into box and cleared.
82 min...Scr Lulli rolls 25 yarder up middle for goalie to pick up.
83 min...Scrosoppi Mauro Lulli GOAL...Scr Omari Cotterell rolls pass from right that Lulli corrals at 12 yards
and shoots low to right corner of net.
84 min...Scr sub...Ubate replaces Gill.
88 min...Scr Lulli has short breakaway up middle that goalie slides to make block on 18 yard shot.
89 min... Lon Bekwayo blasts 18 yarder that's close.
90 min...Lon YELLOW card...Bekwayo earns it for tackle at Lon 50 yard line.
91 min...Scr Cotterell blasts 15 yarder that goalie stops Scr Blaskovic blast 20 yard rebound over net and back fence.
91 min...Lon sub...Nagy replaces Bekwayo.
92 min...Lon Wilcox cornerkick from right has goalie catch in crowd of players in box.
93 min...Lon player's cross from right wins cornerkick on deflection.
93 min...Lon player's low cornerkick from left is booted away on near post.
94 min...game ends 7:56pm.

Final Score:...Scrosoppi FC........4........FC London.......0.....

Attendance started at 30 and built to about 70 by about halftime. I thought the earlier start (the last home game they had was here with a 9:00pm start) would attract more fans but they haven't played a home game since that May 13 game. This was only their third home game vs seven so far on the road so maybe their fans haven't caught on. This year they are playing 53 km away from their home stadium in Milton because it's undergoing a renovation/rebuild along with the high school grounds and building.

Scrosoppi would be a good team for the neutral fan to get behind if they want to see an 'All Star/Mike's Mercenaries' assembled team as they have three home games in the next four weeks with a 'Saturday at 6:00pm' start. Even I was saying 'wow' for some of the backheelers, dekes, flicks, and give-and-gos I saw today.

Scrosoppi got off to a dream start with that early goal and an insurance goal in the one minute of added time in the first half. London goalie Murasiranwa kept his team in the game or Tomasz Skublak alone could have doubled his total or any of the other Scrosoppi forwards.

Andres Vaikla earned the shutout for Scrosoppi with a few stops and was helped by some timely checks and blocks by the defensive line of Carlo Difeo, Joshua Parades, Luke Rankin, and captain Victor Gallo.

Interesting that goalies Murasiranwa and Vaikla both played for the now defunct CPL FC Edmonton last season. Vaikla appeared 21 times and Murasiranwa 8 in 2022.

I was not surprised that ex-York United FC defender Jordan Wilson was not in the lineup for Scrosoppi with his commitments to his gig at OneSoccer. That broadcaster was showing two CPL games this afternoon with at least two commentators/contributors currently away in Las Vegas for the CONCACAF Nations League finals leaving them short. The L1O site lists the two games he's played as on a Tuesday night and a Friday night.

It was good to see John Yacou on the bench as head coach of Scrosoppi. Early in the season I saw him in pregame preparations for a game against Darby FC but then he disappeared by game time. He was serving a suspension but that I heard was it was for 'all season' must have been an exageration or was still undergoing the appeals process (he was head coach of ProStars FC last season) but today confirmed with a Scrosoppi staff member it was only four games after an incident in their season opener against Vaughan Azzurri.

Referee David Barrie gave out three Yellow cards in the game (two to London) with mostly freeflowing action. I wasn't expecting to see him with all his CPL and MLS NEXT Pro action.

The result improve Scrosoppi's record to 8 wins, 2 losses, 0 ties for 24 points and they take over first place. There are still six games on Sunday and only Blue Devils FC can catch them at 24 points but Scrosoppi would still rank higher with one more win. Scrosoppi finished twelfth last season and are ensuring they will finish in the Top 12 for the upcoming division split that takes effect in 2024 as they climb the combined 2022/2023 table. A top six spot this year also ensures a playoff berth and if they win the playoff rounds they'd be league champions and win the one L1O spot in the 2024 Canadian Championhip.

FC London's record falls to 1 win, 6 losses, 2 ties for 5 points. This was the first time they'd allowed more than two goals in a game. Their 13 goals against (until today) ranked them as seventh best in the league. An 8 'goals for' is anchoring them near the bottom of the league. They stay in eighteenth place in the twenty-one teams.

A post game audio interview I'd set up with London head coach Yiannis Tsalatsidis was blown off. The second time he's done that.

Rocket Robin
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Scrosoppi FC starters

FC London starters

London Mike Snedden (9) takes opening kickoff.

The ball is popped up.

Play along the sideline.

London breaking out of own box.

Scrosoppi Tomasz Skublak (8) takes second half kickoff.

London Efosa Emovon (34) runs into Scrosoppi box hoping for pass with Scrosoppi Victor Gallo (6) covering him.

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