Soccer In Toronto 08.14.09

By Rocket Robin Soccer In Toronto

CSL Result
Friday August 14th, 2009

Final Score
Portugal FC 0, Trois-Rivieres 0

Venue
Lamport Stadium, Toronto

Kickoff
8:00 pm

Highlights
45 min … Attak RED card
Guillaume Heroux earns a direct ejection for his part in a pushing match.

45 min … PFC RED card
Selmir Sehic earns a direct ejection for his part in a pushing match.

Heroux started the incident with a tackle from behind on Sehic at PFC 45 yard line and Sehic retaliated.

93 min … Attak RED card
Dirlecot Nana earns a direct ejection for his sliding tackle on PFC Ahmed Hersi at PFC 35 yard sideline injuring him after whistle against Hersi by referee Justin Tasev.

95 min … game ends 10:00 pm

Notes
Attendance was about 30 fans dedicated to watching this fan but swelled to about 100 near the end for people waiting for the U-Sector permit to start and them to start their recreation league game. PFC has not been able to play a home game here in over two months because of the City of Toronto workers strike keeping this stadium locked. The team has sagged in the standings with them holding onto the last playoff spot.

The game wasn’t as rough as the Red card incidents made it seem as I only counted two Yellow cards during the match.

Attak are a fast team but they always made one pass too many or had a PFC defender catch them before getting a clear shot. Michael Silva earned the shutout for PFC.

Their back line of Andrew Leite, Kevin McIntosh, Jaroslaw Radzinski, and captain/head coach Danny Amaral were solid. Amaral has put himself in games as a forward when scoring was important. PFC was missing Ramon Bailey who has not returned from Colombia and defender Taylor Lord who I heard was called up by the Canadian Under-20s. Attak held a large margin over PFC in the number of cornerkicks.

David Lamoureux earned the shutout for the Attak.

It was a fair result and I got the feeling that neither team was going all out to risk a counterattack and lose the point. The Attak have a game tomorrow against the undefeated Toronto Croatia (Attak are the only team this season that is allowed to play two games in two days to cut back on expenses. Portugal FC must have seen the standings as they had 12 points and Attak had 24 before this game started.

Portugal FC earns an important point against one of the league’s best teams. The two teams below them had North York Astros lose against Serbian White Eagles and London City with their first win since August 2007 beat TFC Academy who were playing with about seven players from their main team away at the Francophone games representing Canada.