Soccer In Toronto 08.10.08

By Rocket Robin Soccer In Toronto

Final Score
TFC Academy 4, London City 0

Venue
Lamport Stadium, Tooronto

Kickoff
3:00 pm

Highlights
25 min … TFC Adrian Pena GOAL
TFC Jeremy Halliday rush down right and cross in City box over to Pena near left end line. He dekes defender and shoots sharp angle 8 yard shot into right corner of net.

35 min … TFC Erick Olazabal GOAL
Erick Olazabal on give and go on edge of box stops and 12 yard shot is into right corner of net.

47 min (1st half) … TFC Adrian Pena GOAL
TFC Eros Olazabal in City box back heels ball across box and Pena rolls in 10 yarder to right side of net behind sliding goalie Matt Baca.

65 min … TFC Eros Olazabal GOAL
TFC Junior Ellis rolls ball at 30 yards to left TFC Eros Olazabal rush in on left and he rolls 12 yard shot under falling goalie on left into center of net.

Notes
Attendance was about 250 on this rainy day. A misty rain was falling during the warm-ups and 1st Half. About 50 fans could huddle under the press box shadow and everyone else had umbrellas. The crowd was parents and family of TFC Academy and ball kids and the exhibition playing kids teams at halftime which meant their parents were there too. No fans from the MLS TFC team were here. There were ball boys and girls but only in the end zones because they were unnecessary on the sidelines with the concrete walls and kids could get crushed. The field was wet but since it was field turf, it drained enough that there weren’t any sliding tackles. The game wasn’t rough and referee Manuel Orellana gave out only one Yellow card the entire game.

Jarret Humphreys earned the shutout for TFC but he didn’t have much to do. City had quite a few shots but most were off target. City had a 16 yard freekick from inside the box at 70 minutes called because of a bad TFC backpass and Mochine Talouait put it well over the net. Matt Baca had to be sharp enough in the City net to keep the score in single digits.

Adrian Pena scored two goals and the two Olazabal brothers playing for TFC scored one goal each. The Academy are good enough defensively to be in every game—only letting in 20 goals in 13 games up to now but had trouble scoring with a league worst 9 goals up to today. Today gave them practice in their goal celebrations with shoe shining and rifle shooting popular.

Academy had about a dozen cornerkicks and Erick Olazabal took most of them. Some he put into the box and some he had another TFC player help him work it out then he’d cross into the box.

London City had been the only CSL team I hadn’t seen this season. I wondered what had gone wrong when I read about them in CSL results but saw they were starting to score goals but losing 7-4 and 4-3 before the league break. Their Friday game they lost 1-0. The record was 0-12-1 before today’s game but their only point was July 4th against TFC Academy.

Ennio the roving PA announcer today told me the attendance at BMO Field between Barcelona of Ecuador and Millonarios of Colombia was only about 2100. The game wasn’t promoted at all well. Barcelona won 4-3 in an exciting game he though it’s just that not many people were watching it. Better for the league to brag about the Trois-Rivieres home game which drew that many fans on Saturday night against Toronto Croatia.