June 22, 2012 CSL--Serbian White Eagles vs Montreal Impact Academy (by Rocket Robin)

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Result of the Friday June 22, 2012 CSL game between Serbian White Eagles and Montreal Impact Academy played at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke at 9:00pm.

Serbian White Eagles (all white, red numbers)

..................1 Milos Durkovic (cpt)
16 Winston Crozier...5 Goran Vlaski...4 Boris Milicic...21 Sebastian Novais
7 Kirie Dimitrov...24 Nikola Negojevic...20 Milan Janosevic...11 Misel Klisara
..............8 Richard West...28 Zoran Rajovic

Subs:...12 Nikola Marojevic (gk)...13 Andre Orlando (mid)...17 Luka Maric (fwd)...18 LaTwayne Anagrsoh (mid)...19 Viktor Anastasov (fwd) ...23 Zarko Tomaic (mid)...27 Nino Velimirovic (def)
team officials:...head coach Uros Stamatovic...assistant coaches Sasa Vukovic and Yrgdrag Migkovic...physio Remo Rucci...club official Dragon Bakoc

Montreal Impact Academy (all blue, white numbers)

.................41 Jason Beaulieu
50 Hugo Lapointe-Senecal...54 Kai Morton...42 Francesco Augustin...44 Amine Meftouh
71 Yacine Ait Simane...73 Jeremy Gagnon-Lapare...60 Dominique Morin (cpt)...55 Wandrille Lefevre
...............45 Victor Ndiaye...47 Stefan Vukovic

Subs:...70 Hicham Kettani (gk)...46 Philippe Lincourt-Joseph (mid)...48 Kevin Ouidio Luarca-Echeverria (mid)...58 Alexander King (fwd) ...59 Chrales Joly (fwd)...74 James Geffrard (def)
team officials:...head coach Philippe Eullaffroy...goalkeeping coach Youssef Dahha...medical staff Mathew Starr...physio Andre Beltran ...massage therapists Julie Bertand and Yannick Gerrard...director Nicolas Coupleaux

Game officials:...referee Yusri Rudolph...referee's assistants Jeff Fearnall and Joe Piacente...fourth official Richard Oliveira ...(all black uniforms, red numbers)

1st Half:...starts 9:01pm...SWE defend south end.
1 min...MIA Augustin slides across box to clear and almost puts in own net at 5 yards.
1 min...SWE player's cornerkick from left is caught by goalie.
3 min...MIA Meftouh 32 yard freekick up middle after tap over is weakly rolled wide right of net.
5 min...MIA Lefevre 15 yard shot along left ende line as he's being bumped over is behind net.
8 min...MIA Lapointe-Senecal 22 yard shot from right is around defender but wide right.
9 min...SWE West while offside rolls pass to SWE Rajovic for 10 yard tap in but goal is called back.
13 min...SWE Dimitrov cross along right end line is deflected for cornerkick.
13 min...SWE Rajovic taps cornerkick from right to SWE Dimitrov who taps it back for SWE Rajovic to shoot 25 yarder from right over bar.
14 min...SWE West cross from 30 yards near left sideline has SWE Rajovic not able to turn 12 yard header up middle.
15 min...SWE YELLOW card...Rajovic earns it for tackle at MIA 40 yards.
16 min...SWE Rajovic cross from 25 yards on right tips off defender and deflects to goalie.
19 min...MIA Lefevre eludes defender and blasts 22 yarder from left that goalie bats out of box.
20 min...MIA Meftouh cornerkick from left is knocked around in the box which includes the SWE goalie flying over and catching a 3 yard header on the left post.
24 min...MIA Lefevre blasts low 22 yarder up middle that diving goalie saves.
25 min...MIA Meftouh throw-in from left can't be worked into SWE box.
25 min...SWE YELLOW card...Boris Milicic earns it for tripping MIA Yacine Ait Simane inside right side of SWE box. Referee Yusri Rudolph orders a Penalty kick.
26 min...MIA Stefan Vukovic Penalty kick blast is low to the middle and goalie Milos Durkovic crumples to make save. Referee orders a retake (Vukovic said after the game it was because SWE defender Goran Vlaski had come into the box before shot was taken).
27 min...MIA Stefan Vukovic GOAL...Vukovic blasts Penalty kick low to left side of net as goalie dives to right.
28 min...SWE West can't win Pnealty kick on left side of MIA box.
30 min...SWE Deimitrov 30 yard freekick from left has goalie swat ball away from right top corner preventing 3 yard header.
31 min...SWE Klisara 25 yard freekick is caught by goalie over head.
33 min...MIA Morin low 35 yard blast through players up middle is smothered by goalie.
34 min...SWE Rajovic cornerkick is whistled down in box before ball arrives.
36 min...SWE Rajovic 28 yard freekick up middle has goalie fly and push ball wide right.
37 min...SWE Dimitrov cornerkick from right is cleared from box.
38 min...SWE Janosevic 35 yard freekick from right is rolled forward over right end line.
39 min...MIA Ait Simane pass from right has MIA Lapointe-Senecal cross 20 yarder from right through box unplayed.
40 min...MIA Vukovic cross from 33 yards on left just a step ahead of MIA Ait Simane charging at 7 yards on right.
42 min...MIA Ait Simane is injured at SWE 23 yards when he turns for high kick for which he had referee call against him.
43 min...SWE Rajovic cornerkick from right is cleared from box although goalie had falled over.
44 min...SWE YELLOW card...Crozier earns it for tackle down left sideline stopping MIA rush.
45 min...MIA Meftouh 50 yard freekick from left is caught overhead just under bar.
47 min...half ends 9:48pm.

2nd Half:...starts 10:04pm.
halftime sub:...SWE Anastasov replaces Novais.
45 min...SWE West snakes 22 yarder from right that dips just over bar.
47 min...SWE Negojevic 35 yard shot through crowd of players up middle is caught by goalie.
50 min...SWE RED card...Boris Milicic earns his second Yellow card for pulling down MIA Stefan Vukovic on run up right at SWE 25 yard line.
51 min...MIA Lefevre 30 yard freekick from right is caught by goalie.
52 min...MIA defender clears ball off SWE Rajovic under pressure and ball bounces to goalie.
52 min...SWE sub...Orlando replaces Janosevic.
56 min...MIA Vukovic gets ball back on bad clearance (after previous pass to him) and taps from 7 yards on left back to MIA Ndiaye who shoots from 15 yards just high wide right of the top corner.
57 min...SWE goalie beats MIA Ait Simane to pick up through ball on right.
60 min...SWE players intense pressure ends with SWE player being called offside on intercepted pass.
63 min...SWE Dimitrov cross from 25 yards on right bounces through box unplayed.
63 min...MIA Lefevre low 40 yard kick up middle is saved by sprawling goalie at 15 yards. Defender clears rebound.
64 min...MIA Lefevre eludes sliding defender and gets away 28 yard shot from left that's smothered by goalie.
65 min...MIA sub...Luarca-Echeverria replaces Ait Simane.
67 min...SWE goalie out to 25 yards on right to head away through ball.
68 min...MIA Meftouh low blast of partial clearance from 25 yards is wide right.
70 min...SWE West 20 yard midair blast from right is caught by goalie.
71 min...MIA Vukovic flies to twist header from 7 yards that's stopped.
71 min...SWE Rajovic gets to a through ball and chips the goalie from 25 yards from the left but the ball bounces wide left of the net.
73 min...SWE Zoran Rajovic GOAL...SWE Viktor Anastasov rush on left on break and pass is centered from 12 yards near left end line for sliding Rajovic to elude defender and direct ball in from 5 yards to center of net as goalie Jason Beaulieu was guarding left post.
74 min...SWE Crozier checks ball off MIA Meftouh at 15 yards on left.
75 min...SWE goalie makes point blank stop on MIA Lapointe-Senecal from 10 yards.
76 min...SWE YELLOW card...Klisara for tackle on MIA Lefevre just ouside right side of box.
77 min...MIA Lefevre 22 yard freekick on right tips off head in player wall and is cleared out left side of box by SWE player's header.
78 min...MIA Ndiaye cross from 25 yards from right has MIA Vukovic head across box from left and defendeer prevents 15 yard header up middle.
79 min...SWE sub...Anagrsoh replaces Negojevic.
81 min...MIA Kai Morton GOAL...MIA Amine Meftouh 45 yard freekick from left has MIA Stefan Vukovic head a 10 yarder from the right across the box that Morton heads a 6 yarder down the middle that's into left side of net.
82 min...MIA goalie punches away cross on left post past SWE player waiting for it.
83 min...SWE Klisara 22 yard freekick from extreme left is headed away in box.
84 min...MIA Lefevre rolls 25 yard shot wide right of post.
85 min...MIA sub...King replaces Vukovic.
89 min...MIA sub...Lincourt-Joseph replaces Ndiaye.
89 min...SWE Dimitrov 20 yard roller from left is tipped wide left of goal for cornerkick.
90 min...SWE Dimitrov cornerkick from left is caught by goalie.
91 min...SWE player's cross from far right goes behind net.
93:35 min...game ends 10:52pm.

Final Score:.....Serbian White Eagles.....1....Montreal Impact Academy........2.....

Attendance was about 250 people on this hot night. The crowd was really upset by offside calls that SWE kept getting caught on even being sarcastic yelling 'offside' for every pass play by both teams. This mood started at 9 minutes when SWE Zoran Rajovic for a 10 yard tap-in that was called back. SWE got better at beating traps near the end of the game and it was wide open rushes for both teams.

Best non-scoring chances were at 20 minutes when MIA Amine Meftouh took a cornerkick from the left that was knocked around in the box which included the SWE goalie flying over and catching a 3 yard header on the left post. 71 minutes Zoran Rajovic got to a through ball and chipped the goalie from 25 yards from the left but the ball bounced wide left of the net (two minutes later he did score). 82 minutes had the MIA goalie punch away a cross on the left post to prevent an SWE player from heading it in.

The SWE defensive strain in the second half was more pronounced (they'd only allowed two goals all season until tonight) when after substituting defender Sebastian Novais with forward Viktor Anastasov at halftime, they had defender Boris Milicic red carded.

SWE club official Dragon Bakoc told me during the game that SWE 22 year old goalie Milos Durkovic has an opportunity to sign with an Austrian Division 2 team within the next few days.

The league website pointed out the link between Stefan Vukovic and SWE assistant coach Sasa Vukovic as son and father. Stefan started his career with the SWE youth team then crossed over to TFC Academy for more full time training. After leading the CSL in scoring last season, TFCA released him as he'd passed (at the time) their self-imposed age limit. He was picked up by MIA who have an older limit on their Academy roster.

This was a match-up of two of the last three undefeated CSL teams...SWE with a 4-0-2 record and 8-2 in goals for/against and MIA at 3-0-3 and 13-4 goals for/against.

Montreal's tough weekend continues when they play the league's other undefeated team, Toronto Croatia here at Centennial Stadium at 8:00pm. (Croatia usually plays Sunday nights but MIA as they do every year wants to play two games in two nights to cut costs.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

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