Stan Adamson

PICTURE: Substitute Fadi Salback, one of Vorkuta’s promising young players, completed the scoring with two goals for a 5-0 win over CSC Mississauga Friday.

FC Vorkuta took its unbeaten string to 12 games with a 5-0 away win over CSC Mississauga, one game played in the Canadian Soccer League Friday.

Following an early unsuccessful raid on the Vorkuta goal at the Hershey Centre, the visitors then moved to a counter attack which led to a cross from defender Vadym Gostiev to Olexandr Yaremchuk who put the ball inside the far post and into the net, a 1-0 lead by Vorkuta at the 11^th minute mark.

Vorkuta went ahead 2-0 at 38 minutes, a free kick outside the box by midfielder Serhii Ursulenko was deflected by the wall and into the net. It was 2-0 at the break.

Bohdan Borovskyi struck the third goal for Vorkuta at 52 minutes, collecting a cross from Serhii Melnyk just inside the box to drive the ball into the net.

Fadi Salback made it 4-0 at 71 minutes, tapping the ball into the net off a quick free kick by Valerii Yormosh, and Salback scored a second goal at 89 minutes after finding his way past two Mississauga defenders to score his third of the season for the club’s First Division team. It was a 5-0 final score for the league leaders.

Salback, a substitute, considered one of the younger, promising players in the Canadian Soccer League, opened the season scoring four goals for the Vorkuta B Second Division opener on June 22.

Vorkuta has a 10-0-2 WLT unbeaten record for 32 points at the top of the First Division to lead Scarborough in second position by 7 points, while CSC Mississauga are at 3-8-1 for 10 points and 7^th in the table.

Remaining games in the CSL over the weekend:

Saturday August 10 Esther Shiner Stad. 6.30 pm Kingsman A vs Scarborough SC

Saturday August 10 Huron Park 7 pm  Real Mississauga vs Serbian White Eagles 

Saturday, August 10 Heritage Field 8.30 pm Brantford Galaxy vs Hamilton City    

Sunday August 11 Centennial Stadium 7.30 pm FC Ukraine United vs SC Waterloo

 UPCOMING GAMES IN THE SECOND DIVISION

Sunday August 11 St. Roberts Field 2 pm FC Vorkuta B vs Brantford Galaxy B       

Tuesday August 13 Ontario Soccer Centre 9 pm  CSC Mississauga B vs FC Vorkuta B          

Wed.  August 14 Ontario Soccer Centre 9 pm Kingsman B vs Hamilton City B                             

Wed. Aug. 14 Cardinal Newman 9 pm Brantford Galaxy B vs Serbian White Eagles B         

              

PICTURE: While FC Vorkuta has reason to be optimistic about the outcome of Friday’s game, opposition CSC Mississauga’s three recent victories posting 16 goals and conceding one should cause the league leaders to avoid complacency. The teams meet at Huron Park in Mississauga, a 9 pm kickoff.                                                                                                               Photo: Samad Kadirov

CSC Mississauga picked it up with an 8-1 thumping of local rivals Real Mississauga on August 3 and while the benefit of the victory may not be noticeable for a team sitting in seventh position in the table, that’s outweighed by the psychological boost the side will experience. It’s the third win this campaign and it’s difficult to overlook that the other two victories were 4-0 results away from home. To take it a step further, all three wins were away with a total 16 goals scored and only one conceded and that’s a big step forward from the inaugural 2018 season’s one win at the foot of the table and the only team that failed to qualify for the post-season championship playoffs.

CSC Mississauga is at home to league-leading unbeaten FC Vorkuta to kickoff the weekend games on Friday night and while no one is expecting Mississauga’s turnaround to bring victory, their recent performance may well cause Vorkuta to avoid being complacent and not take the match and three points for granted.

Second place Scarborough, trailing Vorkuta by just five points and closing in while bidding for the First Division title, will not have an easy time against Kingsman A at Esther Shiner Stadium. Kingsman has won four of its last five games including against a strong Serbian White Eagles on August 3, which followed victories against SC Waterloo and Ukraine United. Kingsman’s one defeat in the last five encounters was against Vorkuta on July 27.

First Division Weekend Games

 Friday August 9 Hershey Centre 9 pm CSC Mississauga vs FC Vorkuta       

Saturday August 10 Esther Shiner Stad. 6.30 pm Kingsman A vs Scarborough SC

Saturday August 10 Huron Park 7 pm  Real Mississauga vs Serbian White Eagles 

Saturday, August 10 Heritage Field 8.30 pm Brantford Galaxy vs Hamilton City    

Sunday August 11 Centennial Stadium 7.30 pm FC Ukraine United vs SC Waterloo

 

UPCOMING GAMES IN THE SECOND DIVISION

Sunday August 11 St. Roberts Field 2 pm FC Vorkuta B vs Brantford Galaxy B       

Tues. Aug. 13 Ontario Soccer Centre 9 pm  CSC Mississauga B vs FC Vorkut B          

Wed.  Aug. 14 Ontario Soccer Centre 9 pm Kingsman B vs Hamilton City B

Wed. August 14 Cardinal Newman 9 pm Brantford Galaxy B vs Serbian White Eagles B    

              

PICTURE: New club Kingsman have made solid progress in fifth position in the standings, including a 4-2 defeat of Serbian White Eagles on Saturday, a game in which Sayid Belmokhtar (9) scored a hat-trick for Kingsman. Scarborough is in second position, just four points below league-leading Vorkuta following a 3-2 victory at Waterloo Sunday night.

PHOTO  by Oleg Kalyadin

Scarborough SC came back from a 2-0 deficit scoring three goals to defeat SC Waterloo 3-2 in the only game scheduled in the Canadian Soccer League Sunday night.

Forward Ante Kljusuric opened the scoring for Waterloo at the 22^nd mark at RIM Park and midfielder Adis Hasecic made it 2-0 for the home side three minutes later.

Scarborough captain Aleksander Stojiljkovic scored his fourth goal of the campaign, finding the net past Waterloo ‘keeper Dalibor Ivanovic at the 34^th minute mark for a 2-1 score, and Kavin Bryan equalized for Scarborough at 43 minutes, his fourth goal of the season and a 2-2 score at the interval.

Both sides had opportunities to score and at the 67^th minute forward Gonzalo Matias Cabrera Celis struck the winner for the visitors, his seventh goal of the season, and the 3-2 score held to the final whistle.

Scarborough improved to an 8-2-1 WLT record for 25 points for second place in the standings following the win, just four points behind unbeaten Vorkuta at the top with 29 points. Waterloo has a 4-6-1 record for 13 points in sixth position, having failed to win in four starts since June 27.

Serbian White Eagles (6-2-1 for 19 points) are third in the table following a 4-2 loss to Kingsman A  on Saturday, a win that lifted the new club to fifth position with a 5-5-0 record. Ukraine United (5-3-1 for 16 points) are now in fourth spot.

There are two matches mid-week in the Second Division:

Wed., Aug 7 Cardinal Newman 7 pm Hamilton City B vs CSC Mississauga B

Wed., Aug 7 Iceland Field 9 pm Serbian White Eagles B vs Kingsman B

 

A hat-trick by Sayid Belmokhtar led Kingsman A to a 4-2 victory over Serbian White Eagles, FC Vorkuta were held to a 2-2 draw by FC Ukraine United and CSC Mississauga dominated local rivals Real Mississauga 8-1, three games in the Canadian Soccer League Saturday.

Forward Sayid Belmokhtar scored the first three goals for Kingsman A in the 4-2 defeat of Serbian White Eagles at Esther Shiner Stadium to put the game out of reach late in the second half. Belmokhtar struck at 16 and 39 minutes for a 2-0 lead at the interval, to complete the hat-trick at the 56th minute mark. The goals were 3,4,5 on the season for Belmokhtar. Bozidar Tadic then found the net for Serbian White Eagles at 74 minutes for a 3-1 score and each side scored at 80 minutes, a goal by Serbian Eagles’ defender Milan Kusic and Oleh Savira scored for Kingsman, a 4-2 result in favour of Kingsman at the final whistle.

Vorkuta went ahead early against Ukraine United at the Ontario Soccer Centre and held a 2-0 lead from goals by forward Mykola Temniuk who took a cross on the chest from Pavlo Chornomaz to drive a low shot into the net past Ukraine United goalkeeper Oleksandr Popravka, and just one minute later Vorkuta was awarded a penalty following a hand ball and defender Liubomyr Halchuck made no mistake from the spot. It was Temniuk’s eleventh goal of the season to lead the First Division in scoring.

Ukraine United’s Ihor Sorotoskyi scored at 30 minutes to reduce the lead to 2-1. Sorotoskyi struck the crossbar with his header on the first attempt, but the midfielder tapped in the rebound into an empty net. Pavlo Lukianets tied the game for Ukraine United at 51 minutes when he found the net with a free header, a 2-2 draw at the final whistle.

In the late game at Huron Park, CSC Mississauga dominated the match with an 8-1 victory over local rivals Real Mississauga.

There is one game in the First Division on Sunday with SC Waterloo hosting Scarborough SC at RIM Park in Waterloo, a 7 pm kickoff

MID-WEEK IN THE SECOND DIVISION

 Wed., Aug 7 Cardinal Newman 7 pm Hamilton City B vs CSC Mississauga B             

 Wed., Aug 7 Iceland Field 9 pm Serbian White Eagles B vs Kingsman B      

 

 

 

 

 

PHOTO: Volodymyr Bidlovskyy  prominent for Vorkuta in 3-0 victory over Kingsman A

FC Vorkuta extended its unbeaten streak to 10 games with a 3-0 victory over Kingsman A, FC Ukraine United defeated Real Mississauga 4-0 and visiting Hamilton City held SC Waterloo to a scoreless draw, three games in the Canadian Soccer League First Division Saturday.

Kingsman were reduced to 10 men at 16 minutes of play when midfielder Stanislav Katana was given a second caution and red card at Esther Shiner Stadium. Vorkuta took control of the game with a number of scoring chances, but Kingsman goalkeeper Hryhorii Krasovskyi kept the visitors off the scoresheet until 21 minutes when Vorkuta’s Vadym Gostiev took a cross from Pavlo Chornomaz to send a powerful drive from close in to open the scoring. It was 1-0 for Vorkuta at the interval.

Vorkuta continued to press during the second half and increased its lead to 2-0 at 71 minutes when a prominent throughout Volodymyr Bidlovskyy crossed the ball to Ihor Melnyk for a right foot shot to find the net past Krasovskyi. A good solo effort by forward Fadi Salback of Vorkuta, who made his way into the box to score with a powerful shot, completed the scoring at 80 minutes, a 3-0 result in favour of the current CSL champions at the final whistle. It was Salbacks first goal of the season in the First Division.

Vorkuta lead the standings with a 9-0-1 WLT record for 28 points, while Kingsman has a 4-5-0 record for 12 points and drop to sixth in the table as a result of the loss.

Midfielder Taras Kryvyy struck twice for Ukraine United in the 4-0 defeat of Real Mississauga at Huron Park, giving the current First Division title holders their fifth win of the season. Defender Bohdan Skotskyl scored early and Aaron Reeves also found the net to complete a result that lifted Ukraine United from sixth to fourth position in the standings.

It was a well played encounter between Waterloo and Hamilton City which ended in a scoreless draw at Rim Park, a result that gave Waterloo a 4-5-1 record for 13 points for fifth position in the standings, while Hamilton City are now at 2-3-3 for nine points and seventh in the table.

Midweek in the Second Division

Tuesday, July 30 Ontario Soccer Centre 9 pm CSC Mississauga B vs Serbian White Eagles B      

 Wednesday, July 31 Cardinal Newman 9 pm Brantford Galaxy B vs Kingsman B

 

Serbian White Eagles midfielder Vladimir Strizovic led his team with four goals in a 6-3 victory over Brantford Galaxy and in one other match played in the Canadian Soccer League Friday night, Scarborough SC defeated CSC Mississauga 4-0.

Strizovic opened the scoring for Serbian White Eagles at Centennial Stadium in Toronto’s west-end, a tap in from close in at the 10 minute mark and Marko Stajic made it 2-0 for the home side six minutes later, a curving drive from the 18 yard line that entered the far post.

Strizovic scored his second to increase the lead to 3-0 at 25 minutes, scoring off a rebound from Galaxy goalkeeper Georgi Jovicic.  Brantford Galaxy cut the lead with two goals before the interval, a goal by Zoran Cyijetic at 30 minutes and a second when Alex Bercik beat Serbian White Eagles goalkeeper Nikola Postic at 44 minutes for a 3-2 score at the break.

Strizovic  completed his hat-trick at the 53^rd minute mark for a 4-2 Serbian White Eagles lead and the former Serbia Second Division player beat Jovicic to score his fourth goal at 59 minutes for a 5-2 lead. Strizovic now has 7 goals on the season.

Bozidar Tadic struck for Serbian White Eagles at 69 minutes, a 6-2 lead and Bercik found the net for the visitors at the 74^th minute mark, a 6-3 result at the final whistle.

Serbian White Eagles are in third position in the standings with a 6-1-1 WLT record for 19 points following the win, while Brantford Galaxy have a 0-8-1 record for one point at the foot of the table.

In the late game at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Scarborough defeated CSC Mississauga 4-0, goals by Kevin Bryan  at 25 minutes for a 1-0 lead at the interval, with Alexander Stojiljkovic at 66 minutes and Zoran Rajovic with two late goals, 87 and 90 minutes.

Scarborough continues to occupy the runner-up position in the standings as a result of the victory, the east Toronto team now has a 7-2-1 record for 22 points, three points behind league-leading FC Vorkuta, while CSC Mississauga are in eighth position in the table with a 2-7-1 record for 7 points.

There are three remaining matches scheduled in the CSL First Division this weekend:

Saturday, July 27 Esther Shiner Stadium 6.30 pm Kingsman A vs FC Vorkuta

 Saturday, July 27 Huron Park 7 pm Real Mississauga SC vs FC Ukraine United          

 Saturday, Jul 27 RIM Park 7 pm SC Waterloo vs Hamilton City        

 NEXT WEEK IN THE SECOND DIVISION

 Tuesday, July 30 Ontario Soccer 9 pm       CSC Mississauga B vs Serbian White Eagles B       

Wednesday, Jul 31 Cardinal Newman 9 pm Brantford Galaxy B vs Kingsman B      

 

PICTURE: Kingsman A (red) climbing table steadily, while Scarborough and Serbian White Eagles are well position to challenge runaway FC Vorkuta. PHOTO: Oleg Kalyadin

Expansion team Kingsman A is climbing steadily up the table following three consecutive victories against some tough opposition and doing it with an impressive goal performance by finding the net eight times while conceding just two.

It’s not unusual for teams in their inaugural year to surprise, but two of the teams on the losing end, FC Ukraine United and Waterloo are considered to be in contention for league and championship honours this year and as the schedule moves in to the second half of the season, teams closing in at the top are fighting for every point they can get.

Kingsman face a big test on Saturday while at home to league-leading unbeaten FC Vorkuta in what should be an interesting match against a Vorkuta aiming to clinch the First Division early before defending its CSL Championship triumph of 2018.

Waterloo is sitting in mid table having disappointed since winning both opening games 4-0 with the addition of some new talent from Europe and the club now realizes any opportunity for regular season league honours requires solid wins soon to move forward as a serious contender. The team from Southwestern Ontario, which won a memorable championship and league winning double in 2013, hosts Hamilton City at RIM Park on Saturday.

Scarborough and Serbian White Eagles, in second and third in the standings respectively, are well positioned to challenge runaway Vorkuta. Serbian Eagles, with just one defeat at this mid-point juncture of the regular season, are at home Friday night against lowly Brantford Galaxy, while Scarborough visit the Hershey Centre Friday for an encounter with an improving CSC Mississauga.

Ukraine United have experienced a struggling first half of the season with four defeats in seven matches to date, compared to the team’s two defeats during the entire 16-game regular season 2018 league-winning campaign. Ukraine United visit Huron Park for a clash with Real Mississauga Saturday.

THE WEEKEND:

Friday, July 26 Centennial Stadium  7 pm Serbian White Eagles vs Brantford Galaxy

Friday, July 26 Hershey Centre 9 pm CSC Mississauga vs Scarborough SC

Saturday, July 27 Esther Shiner Stadium 6.30 pm Kingsman A vs FC Vorkuta

Saturday, July 27 Huron Park 7 pm Real Mississauga SC vs FC Ukraine United           

Saturday, Jul 27 RIM Park 7 pm SC Waterloo vs Hamilton City         

NEXT WEEK IN THE SECOND DIVISION

Tuesday, July 30 Ontario Soccer 9 pm       CSC Mississauga B vs Serbian White Eagles B        

Wednesday, Jul 31 Cardinal Newman 9 pm Brantford Galaxy B vs Kingsman B