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Result of the Monday September 29th, 2003 CPSL game between Toronto Croatia and Metro Lions played at Memorial Park in Streetsville (Mississauga) at 8:45pm.
Toronto Croatia (blue socks, white shorts and numbers, red shirts)
...........................................1 George Azcurra
..............14 Antonio Zupan...4 Domagoj Sain...2 Adrian Azcurra
18 Vedran Bacek...16 Joe Draganic...20 Ivica Raguz...5 Ante Musa...21 Orlin Chalmers
...............................7 Jure Pavic...11 Mario Zupetic
Subs:...19 Halburto Harris...8 Hugo Alstitud...9 Edin Kalic...10 Leo Laurito...12 Sem Virdo...17 Jose Aniekwe...6 Mario Kulis
team officials:...coach Velimir Crljen...club manager Mile Brlric...team manager Ivan Ljubic...training assistant Ivan Jelenic...goalkeeper trainer Greg Kapulor
Metro Lions (white socks and numbers, navy shorts and shirts)
........................................1 Patrick Osunduba
...............14 Kevin Rickets...13 Anton Skerritt...16 Oneil Brown
12 Mishel Levkov...22 Christopher Clarke...11 Pop Gabriel Salustius...10 Hayden Fitzwilliams...9 Darryl Gomez
................................20 Maxim Dorneval...6 Marko Janjicek
Subs:...00 Gregory Drakes...19 Craig Patton...7 Caswain Mason
team officials:...coach Goran Miscevic...administration manager Lugo Lugomirski...team manager Ken Mollineau...trainer Blogolje Bratic
Game officials:...referee Gord Arrowsmith...referee's assistants Steve Mortimer and Jeff Simai...fourth official Herminio Lopes...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)
1st Half:...game starts 8:58pm...TC defend south end...all times are converted from my wristwatch.
3 min...ML Salustius flips ball around and then boots 20 yard shot caught by goalie.
5 min...TC player's 40 yard freekick from right has TC Chalmers flick 18 yard header wide left.
8 min...ML Salustius runs down left and 20 yard shot deflected wide by defender for cornerkick.
8 min...ML cornerkick deflected wide by nearest forward for goalkick.
10 min...TC Sain 55 yard freekick from left has defender pop up ball with foot and goalie catches on way down.
11 min...TC Adrian Azcurra taps ball to ML Dorneval whose 20 yard shot sails just wide left of top left corner.
12 min...ML Janjicek 25 yard shot after rush is well over net.
17 min...TC sub...Laurito replaces Raguz.
21 min...TC Zupetic long run up left but rolls weak 15 yarder to defender.
22 min...TC Chalmers steps into box to tip cross from right to ML goalie low from 12 yards.
24 min...TC Zupetic tackles ML Fitzwilliams from behind at center but no card given, just a talking to from the referee.
27 min...ML Levkov throw-in from right passed back to him from box, cross is headed away.
28 min...ML Levkov cornerkick from right is over box and TC defender heads away from charging ML Salustius.
30 min...TC goalie steps out of box to clear through ball.
32 min...TC goalie leaps wide right to catch popped up ball after 45 yard freekick.
33 min...ML goalie leaps to palm ball away from top left corner after cross from right.
35 min...ML Janjicek rushes down right eludes defender and cross to ML Dorneval whose shot from 15 yards is blocked in box. ML Salustius can't get away shot when surrounded by three defenders. A TC quick counterattack has TC forward overrun ball.
38 min...TC Bacek 45 yard freekick from right, TC Sain leaping header from 15 yards caught by goalie.
39 min...TC player's cornerkick from right has TC player flick header across box wide left.
40 min...TC Dragonic runs down right, TC Zupetic pushes ball in center too far ahead from 25 yard for goalie to gather ball up.
41 min...ML Fitzwilliams 50 yard freekick from left has leaping goalie punches ball away rather than try for catch.
43 min...TC goalie runs out to pick up loose ball send into box.
45 min...TC Zupetic rushes towards goal but 12 yard shot from left is caught by goalie.
46 min...ML Skerritt 45 yard freekick from right is caught by TC goalie.
46 min...half ends 8:44pm.
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