CSL 2013--Week 13

[Rocket Robin]

Result of the Sunday July 28, 2013 CSL game between

York Region Shooters and SC Waterloo played at St Joan

of Arc CHS in Vaughan at 6:30pm.

65 min...YRS Ali Hanam GOAL...Hanam blasts 25 yard shot

from left that deflects off SCW defender Dado Hadrovic

at 12 yards and pops over goalie Imad Hakura at 6 yards

and drops into right side of net.

93 min...SCW Shawn Brown steps around one defender

on right side of YRS box and another brings him down.

Referee Ramee Arbaji awards SCW a Penalty kick.

94 min...SCW Drazen Vukovic blasts low Penalty kick

that hits the left post and deflects to 18 yard line

where a defender clears.

94 min...game ends.

Final Score:......York Region Shooters.......1......

....SC Waterloo........0........

Attendance was about 100 on this warm early evening

with the sun coming out at the start of the second

half and the game ending before it got dark.

Adrian Ibanez earned the shutout for the Shooters

having to provide a few key saves but mostly

chances were minimized by the defenders Gerard Ladiyou,

Ricky Herron, Marcelo Capazzolo, and Fitzroy Christey

with Dino Gardener replacing Capazzolo at halftime.

Waterloo's defence of Shawn Brown, Dado Hadrovic, Nemanja

Simeunovic, and Predrag Papaz kept the Shooters chances

down until the last 20 minutes when they had to open

up. They made a lot of clearing headers from their box.

Hadrovic had the ball deflect off him and get by the goalie

somewhat like the MLS Chivas USA vs Toronto FC game almost

two weeks ago.

Referee Ramee Arbaji gave out six Yellow cards that

I counted--three to each team. All the Shooters

cards were for complaining or time wasting. This

was a very rough game with Waterloo players trying

to draw fouls early and Arbaji waving play on. At

most they would be awarded freekicks. There were a

number of fans on both teams complaining about every

bit of contact and call.

Waterloo did not use any of their substitutions. They

had five players listed and warming up during halftime

plus an entire team because their Reserves Division

team had just finished playing Shooters Reserves before

this game started. Shooters won 3-1. Waterloo was

tiring in the second half while Shooters had refreshed

with five subs working their way into the game from

halftime onward. Poor Darazen Vukovic was limping

back towards his end to avoid being called offside

and wasn't playing possum because when he did get

the ball on a pass, a swarm of defenders did

check him off the ball or intercepted his pass attempts.

Captain Vukovic is second in team scoring with

five goals while Adis Hasecic has ten and was

still on the field. I don't follow the team close

enough to know who takes the Penalty kicks.

After the Shooters goal when Waterloo had to open

up to get the equalizer, shooters had two good chances

to put the game away before they conceded the Penalty

kick. 80 minutes had YRS Ricky West tap a pass

to the charging Gerard Ladiyou as they'd worked

their way up the middle and Ladiyou shot wide right

from 8 yards. 84 minutes had YRS West pass to the

left for YRS Vasileios Liagkos to shoot a low

22 yarder that was just wide right of the post.

Shooters earn their 8th win in a row and lead the league

with a 9 win, 2 loss, 1 tie record and a leading

goals against of 8 in 12 games played. Waterloo's

record falls to 5 wins, 3 losses, 3 ties and after

other results this weekend should be in 5th place.

Jamaican international midfielder Ricky Edwards has

signed with the Shooters and is currently in New

York City waiting for Canadian visas/permits

before he can play.

Rocket Robin

robing@eol.ca

[Rocket Robin]

lineups and pictures from that game:

http://www.rocketrobinsoccerintoronto.com/reports13/13csl061.htm