June 25, 2010 CSL--Serbian White Eagles vs London City (by Rocket Robin)

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Result of the Friday June 25, 2010 CSL game between Serbian White Eagles vs London City played at Centennial Stadium at 8:00pm.

Serbian White Eagles (white socks and numbers, blue shorts, red shirts)

...................30 Milos Kocic
3 Taylor Lord...5 Mark Jankovic...6 Mirko Medic (cpt)...4 Milos Vucinic
..........14 Uros Stamatovic...22 Adrian Tismenar...10 Alex Braletic
..........11 Milos Scepanovic...29 Stefan Vukovic...8 Shawn Brown

Subs:...1 Milos Djurkovic (gk)...16 Viktor Anastasov (fwd)...18 Andre Orlando (mid)...19 Dragaorad Milicevic (def)...20 Milan Janosevic (mid) ...28 Goran Vlaski (def)...99 Sasa Viciknez (fwd)
team officials:...head coach Dusko Prijic...assistant coach Sasa Vukovic...assistant manager Karolina Bujak...manager Mario Ostojic

London City (all black, white numbers)

....................1 Scott Mueller (cpt)
21 Jagger Hassan...19 Stuart Wright...13 Sergio Siguenza...14 Cody Workman
4 Estevao Franco...8 Genti Dervishi...6 Tom Beattie...18 Mike Marcoccia
.............20 Genti Buzali...11 Kevin Zimmerman

Subs:...33 Daryl Lotz (gk)...35 Andrew Loague (fwd)...22 Nick Belanger (mid)...12 Karim Ben Sari (mid)...17 Justin Marques (mid)...7 Anasse Brouk (fwd) ...5 David Ortega (mid)
team officials:...head coach Andrew Loague...general manager Ryan Gauss

Game officials:...referee Matthew Arduini..referee's assistants Zac Taylor and Mac Meloche...fourth official Rich Oliveira...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

1st Half:...game starts 8:03pm...SWE defend south end on this warm evening with the sun in the north west.
2 min...SWE Milos Scepanovic GOAL...A SWE player passes from the left just inside the box, another SWE player taps the ball over from the right and Scepanovic turns and cuts 15 yard shot up middle into top left corner of net.
7 min...City Siguenza chops SWE Brown on left of box giving freekick.
7 min...SWE Scepanovic 22 yard freekick blast into wall. Ball pops up on header over to SWE Tismenar who shanks 15 yard shot well wide right of net.
10 min...SWE goalie beats City Zimmerman to high through ball.
10 min...SWE Scepanovic taps pass back from right end line and SWE Stamatovic boots 8 yarder well over net.
11 min...City Beattie 30 yard roller up middle. SWE goalie dives to save ball ahead of charging City player.
13 min...City Franco 15 yard shot from right is just high and wide of left post.
16 min...City Dervishi 28 yard freekick from right is caught by goalie on left post.
19 min...City goalie pushes back back pass wide right of net flying over to stop goal.
19 min...SWE Scepanovic cornerkick from right has SWE Medic heads 6 yarder over net.
20 min...SWE GOAL (City own GOAL)...SWE Shawn Brown eludes defender tugging on his shirt on the left side of the box on his run and he rolls a pass back into the center of box. City Estevao Franco slides to block ball and his legs spear ball from 8 yards into right corner of net just inside post beyond diving goalie.
22 min...City YELLOW card...Hassan earns it for tackle on SWE Brown at center line.
24 min...City Beattie 30 yard roller through defenders in middle and just wide left of post.
25 min...SWE Milos Scepanovic 30 yard freekick from the right has defender block ball just inside box off his arm. Referee Matthew Arduini calls a Penalty kick.
26 min...SWE Milos Scepanovic GOAL...Scepanovic Penalty kick is blasted into center right of net over flying goalie Scott Mueller.
27 min...City player's cornerkick from left is blocked by defender.
28 min...SWE Vukovic receives quick freekick up middle and has clear 20 yard shot that's just wide right of post.
28 min...City Zimmerman rolls cross from near right end line and defender stops and clears.
32 min...City Dervishi 45 yard freekick lobbed in and goalie dives forward to catch at 5 yards.
33 min...SWE Braletic bends cross from left around defenders and SWE Scepanovic heads 10 yarder caught by goalie but called back for jumping on.
34 min...City Wright 40 yard freekick from left is wide right of net.
37 min...City YELLOW card...Wright earns it for knock over of SWE Scepanovic at City 50 yard sideline injurying him.
38 min...SWE Tismenar blasts blocked freekick rebound on edge of box from 25 yards low and wide left of net.
41 min...SWE Scepanovic cross from 25 yards near right end line through all players in box.
42 min...SWE sub...Anastasov replaces Scepanovic.
42 min...SWE Brown stops and cuts in 22 yard shot into left webbing of net.
43 min...City goalie beats SWE Brown to long through ball up middle.
44 min...City Dervishi intercepts clearance and blasts 30 yarder up middle wide left of net.
45 min...SWE Anastasov cross from 25 yards on right is well wide left of net.
46 min...SWE Lord blasts 35 yarder from right well over net.
48 min...half ends 8:51pm.

2nd Half:...starts 9:07pm.
halftime subs:...SWE Milicevic replaces Stamatovic.
.................SWE Viciknez replaces Braletic. Viciknez takes the captain's armband.
.................SWE Vlaski replaces Tismenar.
.................City Ortega replaces Siguenza.
.................City Brouk replaces Zimmerman.
47 min...City Beattie 22 yard shot from right is just over net.
48 min...City Marcoccia rush on left and cuts in and 25 yard shot from left is wide right.
48 min...City Buzali 30 yard blast down middle is well over net.
49 min...SWE YELLOW card...Milicevic earns it for check on City Brouk at SWE 50 yard line.
53 min...SWE Viciknez is given ball down left and his 25 yard blast has goalie palm ball wide right of net for cornerkick.
53 min...SWE Viciknez cornerkick from right is headed away by nearest defender on right.
55 min...City Hassan blasts 30 yard rebound of blocked freekick on right well over net and wide left.
56 min...SWE Viciknez cornerkick from right has leaping SWE Brown head 3 yarder just over bar on left post.
57 min...City Buzali 28 yard shot up middle is stopped by goalie.
57 min...City goalie outjumps high ball ahead of SWE Brown.
58 min...SWE Viciknez cross from City 40 yard line on right has SWE Jankovic blast 15 yarder from left that sliding goalie makes point blank save.
60 min...SWE Viciknez 30 yard freekick near right sideline bends just through charging players wide left of net for goalkick.
62 min...SWE sub...Janosevic replaces Medic.
65 min...SWE Viciknez bends 22 yard shot from right just wide left of post.
66 min...SWE Brown breaks away through defenders but pushes ball over left end line while passing last defender.
67 min...City Wright cornerkick from right has defender head ball away.
67 min...SWE Brown on long run on left shoots low 15 yarder past goalie and off right post and ball is cleared.
68 min...City sub...Loague replaces Buzali.
71 min...City Wright cross from 25 yards on left has SWE Jankovic head ball out right side of box.
73 min...City Brouk threaded through ball up middle and 45 yard break has 22 yard shot blocked by goalie at 15 yards.
74 min...SWE Brown long rush on left but last defender pokes away ball at 15 yards.
75 min...City Hassan 22 yard low shot through left and sprawling goalie blocks it.
77 min...City sub...Ben Sari replaces Franco.
78 min...City Brouk stops and cuts low 25 yard shot from left that goalie smothers.
79 min...City sub...Marques replaces Marcoccia.
82 min...SWE YELLOW card...Brown earns it for not giving 10 yards on 50 yard freekick.
83 min...City Wright 55 yard freekick from left is caught by goalie.
83 min...SWE goalie catches 40 yard cross from right.
84 min...SWE goalie charges to right to dive on through ball ahead of City Brouk.
86 min...SWE YELLOW card...Janosevic earns it on tackle on City Dervishi at SWE 35 yards.
87 min...City Beattie chips 35 yard freekick to City Loague but 15 yard cross/shot is blocked by defender.
88 min...SWE Brown cuts around defender on long run at 20 yards and pushes ball too far up but cuts 20 yard shot well off target.
89 min...SWE Viciknez and SWE Brown on 2 on 1 rush but defender prevents pass to SWE Brown at 20 yards from far left.
90 min...SWE Sasa Viciknez GOAL...Viciknez is fed a pass from 50 yards forward to him rushing up the left wing and he takes it himself on a 2 on 1 break and rolls 15 yard shot under goalie inside the right post.
91 min...City YELLOW card...Loague earns it for complaining on whistle deep in the SWE end.
93 min...SWE YELLOW card...Jankovic earns it for knock down of City Dervishi in center circle.
93 min...SWE Viciknez on rush down left and rolls pass to center where SWE Brown blasts 5 yarder on right post well over net.
95:15 min...game ends 9:58pm.

Final Score:.......Serbian White Eagles............4....................London City....................0.............

Attendance was about 175 on this warm evening with the sun in the north west for the first half. I didn't notice any of the Serb Ultras out tonight.

White Eagles got off to a dream start--having the game wrapped up at the 30 minute mark. The rest of the game was more even. A limping Milos Scepanovic was replaced at 42 minutes after being injured by a Yellow card drawing Stuart Wright check five minutes earlier. It looked like White Eagles changed five players at halftime. They have a game two nights from now as 'visitors' to their greatest rivals Toronto Croatia right here at this stadium. They probably wanted to rest a few players and also the game was quite chippy and quite a few Yellow cards were given out.

Milos Kocic earned the shutout for White Eagles while mostly making saves from 20 yards out or further. A great defence of Taylor Lord, Mark Jankovic, Mirko Medic, and Milos Vucinic limited the chances for City to get close enough to the net to be too dangerous.

The crowd was amused by the SWE players setting up the speedy Shawn Brown but his attempts were mostly off target. His chances were set up by City pressing to get back into the game and brought about some good end to end action in the second half.

This was only only the fifth game of the season for both these teams with some teams playing twice as many games. White Eagles are now starting to move up the standings with a 3-1-1 record.

This game was recorded by Rogers Community channel for broadcast at 8:00pm on Saturday night (right opposite the Toronto FC game). It would be funny to see Milos Kocic get any playing time for Toronto FC in goal.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

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