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Result of the Friday August 14, 2009 CSL game between Portugal FC and Trois-Rivieres Attak played at Lamport Stadium in Toronto at 8:00pm.
Portugal FC (all white, green trim)
................1 Mike Silva
23 Andrew Leite...10 Danny Amaral (cpt)...15 Kevin McIntosh...2 Jaroslaw Radzinski
7 Selmir Sehic...18 Biruk Nida...19 Gustavo Serrano...17 Jaime Carvalho
..........11 Jarvin Skeete...9 Mike Diluca
Subs:...12 Shaun Buric...21 Yannik Thompson...6 Ahmed Hersi...16 Jonathan Pacheco...13 Seung Bok Lee...22 Joseph Philip...20 Martin Brovetto
team officials:...head coach Danny Amaral...manager Tony Maia...trainer/physio Amanda Pereira
Trois-Rivieres Attak (all blue, white number and trim)
................1 David Lamoureux
24 Francesco Augustin...20 Karl Ouimette...3 Elkana Mayard (cpt)...33 Amine Meftouh
18 Guillaume Heroux...16 Felix Cardin...8 Chris Rumuri...6 Alex Surprenant
............10 Reda Agourram...11 Mircea Ilcu
Subs:...22 Simon Lagarde...2 Mike Vitulano...15 Max Tissot...5 Joey Cortese...23 Sergio Dinkota...21 Dirloeiot Nana...7 Yan Rome-Gosselin
team officials:...head coach Philippe Eullaffroy...assistant coach C Quesnel...trainer V Robinson
Game officials:...referee Justin Tasev...referee's assistants Jeff Fearnall and Ricky Zomparelli...fourth official Alexis Vaughan...(all black, white and yellow trim)
1st Half:...game starts 8:08pm...PFC defend north end...As the scoreboard was not working, all times are converted from my wristwatch.
0 min...PFC Serrano 35 yard shot up middle is caught by goalie.
1 min...PFC Serrano 25 yard blast from right hits defender and deflects for diving goalie to block at 5 yards.
7 min...TRA Heroux 35 yard blast down middle is over net.
10 min...TRA Agourram 25 yard blast up middle is blocked by defender at 15 yards and TRA Heroux blasts 20 yard rebound low for diving goalie to block
near left post.
10 min...PFC Diluca 25 yard freekick down middle is caught by goalie on right post.
11 min...TRA Surprenant freekick from 35 yard on right has defender on left head ball away.
15 min...TRA Rumuri 50 yard chip pass bounces into box that goalie grabs in front of charging TRA forward.
16 min...PFC Leite rush up right and cross from near cornerflag and PFC Nida blasts 15 yard shot is over net.
18 min...PFC Leite crosses from 15 yards on right crosses well over net.
23 min...TRA Surprenant cornerkick from right is partially cleared and TRA player blasts shot over net from 20 yards.
25 min...PFC Serrano 45 yard freekick has PFC Carvalho cross from left has a PFC player head ball to goalie from 7 yards.
30 min...TRA Agourram rushes to ball up middle but goalie dives out to grab it.
32 min...TRA Surprenant 30 yard freekick from left deflects off defender wide right for cornerkick.
33 min...TRA Surprenant cornerkick from left has nearest defender head ball behind net.
34 min...TRA Surprenant cornerkick from left has play whistled down in box.
35 min...TRA Rumuri cross from right from 15 yards has dfender on left concede cornerkick.
36 min...TRA player's cornerkick from left has defender clear.
38 min...PFC Leite 45 yard shot through crowd of players is wide right.
41 min...TRA Heroux cross from 40 yards on right has TRA Suprenant pop 10 yard header over bar.
42 min...PFC Sehic 28 yard shot from left is low and smothered by goalie.
45 min…Attak RED card…Guillaume Heroux earns a direct ejection for his part in a pushing match.
…………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.
47 min...half ends 8:55pm.
2nd Half:...starts 9:10pm...there's a quick start as the PFC squad is still huddled.
46 min...TRA Ilcu 15 yard shot down middle deflects wide for cornerkick.
47 min...TRA Surprenant cornerkick from left has defenders clear ball for fast break.
48 min...PFC goalie catches high bouncer from right wide left of net.
51 min...TFA Surprenant cornerkick from left has TRA Rumuri blast 10 yard shot off defender for cornerkick.
53 min...PFC Carvalho 40 yard freekick from right has ball bounce wide left of net just missing PFC player.
55 min...TFA YELLOW card...Ilcu at TRA 50 yards for knock down of PFC player.
56 min...PFC Carvalho 50 yard freekick from right has leaping goalie catch.
57 min...PFC Amaral gets tapped over pass and blasts 35 yard shot over crowd and over back fence and hits TFA bus in parking lot.
59 min...TFA Ilcu hurt on play.
59 min...TFA Surprenant 22 yard freekick from left has lunging TRA player miss 3 yard header and ball is wide right of net.
60 min...PFC sub...Philip replaces Skeete.
61 min...TRA Agourram turns and 25 yard shot is wide left of net.
64 min...PFC Leite steals shot chance off TRA Ilcu to clear 30 yard chance at empty net when goalie missed ball charging out of net.
65 min...TRA sub...Rome-Gosselin replaces Rumuri.
.........PFC sub...Hersi replaces Carvalho.
66 min...TRA player's 30 yard freekick from right is cleared left of box.
68 min...TRA Rome-Gosselin give and go on rush up middle but defender catches him at 20 yards.
69 min...TRA sub...Tissot replaces Surprenant.
71 min...TRA player's 30 yard blast up middle has goalie block shot but big 25 yard rebound is cleared by defender.
72 min...PFC sub...Brovetto replaces Diluca.
73 min...TFA Meftouh 35 yard cross from left has ball shot wide right of net.
76 min...PFC Hersi 20 yard low shot on right is caught by sprawling goalie on right post.
78 min...PFC Leite injured on right edge of TFA box.
79 min...PFC Serrano 25 yeard bending snake freekick from right is just wide left of top corner of net.
82 min...PFC Serrano injured in center circle as ball is played on into PFC edge of box and finally it's cleared for throw-in.
82 min...TRA sub...Nana replaces Cardin.
83 min...TRA Meftouh 30 yard blast down middle has ball wide left of net.
84 min...PFC sub...Thompson replaces Serrano.
.........TRA sub...Vitulano replaces Ilcu.
85 min...TRA Meftouh cornerkick from right has defender clear for throw-in on right.
87 min...PFC YELLOW card...Brovetto for tackle at PFC 45 yards. PFC McIntosh was also injured at PFC 22 yards in same play.
88 min...TRA Meftouh taps over 45 yard freekick to TRA Tissot whose 40 yard shot is wide of net.
89 min...TRA Amaral blocks shot down middle for cornerkick.
90 min...TRA Meftouh cornerkick from right has ball bounce to goalie.
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.
94 min...TRA Meftouh 35 yard freekick from left is high and wide right for goalkick.
95 min…game ends 10:00pm.
Final Score:…….Portugal FC………0………….Trois-Rivieres……….0………….
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.
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Portugal starters
Attak starters
Attak goalie David Lamoureux avoids using his hands when he's outside box.
Action in the center circle
Attak Francesco Augustin takes throw-in.
just after the game ended
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