Soccer In Toronto 07.31.09

By Rocket Robin Soccer In Toronto

CSL Result
Friday July 31st, 2009

Final Score
Serbian White Eagles 7, London City 0

Venue
The Ontario Soccer Centre, Vaughan

Kickoff
9:00 pm

Highlights
38 min … SWE Kiril Dimitrov GOAL
Dimitrov walks ball into net when goalie Chris Davis misses ball at 10 yards on right after SWE Jonathan Hurtis on right eludes goalie after getting pass at 25 yards on right.

42 min … SWE Mirko Medic long run give and go with SWE Jonathan Hurtis results in Medic blasting 20 yard shot that hits hand of City Sergio Siguenza. Referee John Olivera gives Siguenza a Yellow card and awards a penalty kick.

43 min … SWE Sasa Viciknez rolls his penalty kick wide right on blast as goalie dives to left.

44 min … City RED card
manager Ryan Gauss is ejected from the bench for mouthing off at the officials. I didn’t notice this incident at all.

51 min … SWE (City own goal) GOAL
Sasa Viciknez cornerkick from right has ball deflect off defender into center of own net from 5 yards.

55 min … SWE Sasa Viciknez GOAL
Viciknez gets his second breakaway in 1 minute from 50 yards up middle and from 20 yards shoots low shot into right corner of net with goalie sprawling at 8 yards.

60 min … SWE Jonathan Hurtis GOAL
Hurtis squeezed by two players at 15 yards on left and he steps back and his 15 yard blast is just under bar over flying goalie.

75 min … SWE Dragan Radovic GOAL
Radovic gets pass from right and 10 yard blast from left is just inside left post.

82 min … SWE RED card
Marlon Juman is ejected for elbowing Mike Vandenheuval in the back of the head in the center circle as they jumped for a header.

84 min … SWE Velko Lukovic GOAL
SWE Dragan Radovic rush on left and chips goalie and hits bar. Lukovic blasts in 7 yarder from right missing own player standing at 3 yards. Lukovic gets a Yellow card for pulling off his shirt although the SWE players were pleading for leniency as it was Luckovic’s first goal.

92 min … SWE Dragan Radovic GOAL
SWE Velko Lukovic sets up play with close-in shot and Radovic bashes in low 3 yard kick that goalie saves behind line sprawled after Lukovic shot.

Notes
Attendance was about 125 on this game moved from Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke. The game started at 9:00 pm on the Ontario Soccer Centre’s main field about five minutes after the last kid’s practice was over.

This should be the last weekend any of the games have to be rescheduled as the City of Toronto workers ended earlier in the week. The headlines were all about the mounting garbage but parks were neither maintained nor available and swimming pools (that personally effects me the most) were not open.

White Eagles captain Sasa Viciknez could have had more than his one goal if he’d converted on the penalty kick or at 54 minutes when he had a breakaway at 35 yards and chipped the goalie from 22 yards with the goalie out at 15 yards but the ball hit the crossbar and was cleared.

London City held on for the first half and always seemed to have that last defender back to prevent 2 on 0 breakaways. They didn’t get many chances to score on White Eagles goalie Marko Petrovic who earned the shutout (usual first stringer Dan Pelc was not listed as a sub). When the fourth official informed both teams of four minutes of extra time in the second half (a few injuries and picking balls out of the net), a player on the City bench said “Can you make it two minutes?”.

There have been a lot of player chances since I last saw City play back on May 24th but it’s hard to believe that their only point of the season was their home game of June 26th against White Eagles when they earned a 1-1 tie. I’m sure the White Eagles have been waiting the whole month for the rematch. Dropped points hurt them in their run at undefeated Toronto Croatia in the tough International Division.