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Rocket Robin
05-18-2013, 11:54 PM
Result of the Saturday May 18, 2013 MLS Reserves
League game played at BMO Field in Toronto at
7:30pm.
42 min...TFCR Jonathan Osorio GOAL...Osorio receives
a rolled cross pass and shoots a 12 yard rolling shot
from the right into the left corner of the net.
44 min...TFCR Jeremy Brockie GOAL...TFCR John Bostock
passes forward from 40 yards and Brockie receives ball
at 20 yards and freezes goalie Matt Lampson at 12 yards
and shoots into left side of net.
68 min...CCR Kyle Hyland GOAL...Hyland takes a long
throw-in from the left that bounces through players
in the box and into right side of net while goalie
Stefan Frei is stranded on his line in center of net.
70 min...TFCR Dylan Sacramento GOAL...Sacramento gets
pass at 15 yards on left and squeezes 10 yard shot into
short left side of net between post and goalie.
Final Score:...Toronto FC Reserves.......3.......
Columbus Crew Reserves.......1.......
Attendance started at about 300 and there were still
200 at the start of the second half but only 80 after
a slight rain started at the 62 minute mark although
it only lasted about 5 minutes.
Referee Yusri Rudolf gave out four Yellow cards
during the game--three to Toronto. It was a very open
game with lots of rushes but TFC were often called
offside.
Starting lineup for TFCR was:
...................24 Stefan Frei (cpt)
3 Danny Califf...28 Gleison Pinto dos Santos...5 Ashtone Morgan
9 Emery Welshman...8 Kyle Bekker...7 John Bostock...21 Jonathan Osorio
...22 Jeremy Brockie...14 Danny Koevermans...32 Andrew Wiedeman
The start of the second half had them bring in TFC Academy players
34 Manuel Aparicio, 35 Chris Mannella and 38 Daniel Fabrizi
replacing Danny Koevermans, Jonathan Osorio and Jeremy Brockie.
The Osorio and Brockie subs were necessary because both had been
used as second half subs in the main MLS game that had finished
just over half hour earlier. Koevermans is just coming back from
a year long injury. At 64 minutes (#39) Dylan Sacramento replaced
defender Danny Califf although Sacramento played further forward on
left wing.
Danny Koevermans only played the first half and his timing was off.
His play is to knock down balls, hold up and pass off if he's
being covered. A video is on the TFC website already about his
game hilight--at 13 minutes when he shot into the net as the
goalie stood still and watched because the play had been whistled
for offside almost 3 seconds earlier.
Andrew Wiedeman was shown up by the Academy players once they entered
the game and the plays they made. At 55 minutes Chris Mannella blasted
a 25 yard shot from the left off the left post. Sacramento after
a nice run through defenders on the left had the goalie dive to try
to smother the ball at 6 yards and Sacramento knocked the ball
back to Wiedeman who then tried a 12 yard chip but put it easier
into the hands of the goalie who didn't have to move from standing
at the left post.
Best defender in this game was TFC trialist 'Santos' (Gleison Pinto
dos Santos). He made some key stops to break up CCR plays. Most
important was at 38 minutes when he made a bicycle kick clearance
at 25 yards to clear a possible 2 on 0 break-in. The game went on
a bit too long for Santos as he drew the only CCR Yellow card of the
game at 94 minutes when Jairo Arrieta collided into him just
inside the center circle. Santos needed to be helped from the field.
Ashton Morgan improved his status in finding his way back to the
first team as he played great defence and sent in great crosses
from the wings. Kyle Bekker didn't have a great game with too
many blind or bad passes that were intercepted.
The few spectators who stayed were certainly pro TFC but the ones
near me were laughing at the attempts by John Bostock to win foul
calls.
Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

OgtheDim
05-19-2013, 06:49 AM
Thanks for that.




The few spectators who stayed were certainly pro TFC but the ones
near me were laughing at the attempts by John Bostock to win foul
calls.
Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

Pretty much sums up his game right now.

Leedsoronto
05-19-2013, 08:08 AM
The reserve game was well worth the ticket price alone !

Morlesio14
05-19-2013, 08:59 AM
The reserve game was well worth the ticket price alone !

How much did it cost?

Leedsoronto
05-19-2013, 09:18 AM
Cost the price of the MLS game seat. You just stay after the first team leave the field.

Huyton
05-19-2013, 09:36 AM
Thanks for the report, Robin, much appreciated.

How sad that Bostock has been reduced to that level...he won't be doing himself any favours in the hunt for his next team.

Klinsmann
05-19-2013, 11:08 AM
Here's a few pics from the reserve match

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5454/8753465775_690c3991ab_b.jpg

Klinsmann
05-19-2013, 11:10 AM
Jeremy Brockie GOAL!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7331/8753461355_b8fed2c2ba_b.jpg

Klinsmann
05-19-2013, 11:15 AM
Jeremy Brockie Goal Celebration

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2879/8754585026_37c2a86ca8_b.jpg

Klinsmann
05-19-2013, 11:17 AM
Gleison Pinto dos Santos

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8116/8753460629_f54d3e8e14_b.jpg

Manager87
05-19-2013, 11:28 AM
Whos the coach for the resereves?Jason Bent?

Richard
05-19-2013, 11:31 AM
I think Bostock is another Stevanovic, his head is not in the right place.

Good to see Koevs back.

jazzy
05-19-2013, 11:38 AM
nice bit about wiedman vs academy players........Santos looked better than some our regulars........brilliant sliding tackle to recapture the ball early on....we need him....also Osario should start

Ajax TFC
05-19-2013, 12:42 PM
Whos the coach for the resereves?Jason Bent?
I wondered this too. The lineup was a really attacking one and they lined up in what looked like a 4-3-3 a lot of the time.

Agree with what was said above about Wiedeman. He looked clueless out there, and when the academy kids came on, he looked like the odd one out in that he was the only one who didn't look like they knew what to do.

Also my friend who doesn't really follow TFC much (so doesn't have any kind of bias for or against any players) made a comment on how our keeper (Frei) didn't look good.

And Apart from his numerous dives and playacting, which I loudly criticized him for, I thought Bostock played well in the middle in this game. There was also a couple instances where I was quite surprised that he didn't go down.

Greatest Ripoff
05-19-2013, 03:06 PM
Santos looked really tidy out there. Depending on his wage demands I wouldn't be surprised if they find a way to fit him on the roster. I was also really impressed by the academy players. Both Aparicio and Sacramento looked small but did very well on the flanks.

The football played was very nice. Enjoyed this match more than any first team matches I've been to this year.

OgtheDim
05-19-2013, 03:16 PM
It will be nice next season when we have a proper farm team and a bunch of these guys will be down there playing regularly.

Laiping
05-19-2013, 03:24 PM
Glad we stayed for the Reserve game. It was worth staying for!

T-boy
05-19-2013, 03:56 PM
Anybody able to comment on the TACTICAL approach for the reserves? Is it any different to the first team?

(just trying to judge whether Nelson is limiting the first team tactics due to lack of available personnel)

TFC07
05-19-2013, 04:05 PM
Wiedeman is waste of roster space. I rather have an academy player than Wiedeman on the roster.

Ajax TFC
05-19-2013, 04:26 PM
Anybody able to comment on the TACTICAL approach for the reserves? Is it any different to the first team?

(just trying to judge whether Nelson is limiting the first team tactics due to lack of available personnel)
The reserves played a much more attacking minded game as opposed to the first team's defense first approach. They also played the ball on the ground more. It's hard to tell though if this was by design, or if it was just the natural result of the personnel. I don't know how good the KKKrew reserves were on paper, but given that our starting XI is filled with players who can give us more defensive stability, the reserves naturally ended up being loaded with all the talented, young players who are too defensively unreliable to start in the first team (plus Koevermans, Califf, and Wiedeman).
It's also interesting that there was a lot of positional interchange between the players (in the first half anyway), with the formation morphing between a 4-3-3, 4-4-2 and 4-5-1 with Brockie sometimes going up front, Koevermans dropping out wide a couple of times, Osorio pushing up next to Koevermans, and wingers dropping back into midfield. They also played with attacking wingbacks with Welshman and Morgan. Welshman also played left wing for the first 15 minutes of the second half before Califf got taken out for Sacramento who went out to the left wing.
When the academy kids came on in the second half, it stayed as more of a 4-3-3 with the wingers staying high up on either side of Wiedeman

I don't know if it's Nelsen who gives the reserve players their roles, but I'm hoping that this is the kind of football that he's eventually aiming for.


Wiedeman is waste of roster space. I rather have an academy player than Wiedeman on the roster.

Agreed. He's so clueless most of the time. I don't know how he's ahead of Welshman.

Greatest Ripoff
05-19-2013, 05:33 PM
Ajax summed it up really nicely. There was lot more passing and movement off the ball then we have seen with any of the first team matches. Honestly, it was a lot more enjoyable to watch. And from my personal bias of being Canadian, it was nice to see so many of them on field playing a more technical style. There are definitely kids with raw talent coming through the system. Hopefully TFC are able to turn a couple into decent MLS players.

T-boy
05-19-2013, 05:35 PM
Thanks for the report Ajax, very interesting.

jloome
05-19-2013, 05:38 PM
I think Bostock is another Stevanovic, his head is not in the right place.

Good to see Koevs back.

They're also playing him out of position. Bostock is not a wide player, never has been. He's a central midfielder.

colman1860
05-19-2013, 06:56 PM
Whos the coach for the resereves?Jason Bent?

Jim Brennan (yesterday, anyways). Nelsen and O'Leary were in the stands for the game also

Morlesio14
05-19-2013, 08:52 PM
how long after the game do these games start?

T-boy
05-19-2013, 09:24 PM
They're also playing him out of position. Bostock is not a wide player, never has been. He's a central midfielder.


Agreed. I fear that he will never get a chance playing in a central AM roll before they let him go, which would be a shame. The guy deserves to play at least one game where he prefers.

Leedsoronto
05-20-2013, 08:29 AM
how long after the game do these games start?

about an hour after the end of the MLS game

Still a few more games left yet, TO are sitting second in the east reserve leagues

Greatest Ripoff
05-20-2013, 11:36 AM
about an hour after the end of the MLS game

Still a few more games left yet, TO are sitting second in the east reserve leagues

There is also a reserve game against Pittsburg of the USL on July 28th.

FluSH
05-20-2013, 12:29 PM
The football played was very nice. Enjoyed this match more than any first team matches I've been to this year.

i have to agree here as well!

Rocket Robin
05-22-2013, 10:18 PM
http://www.rocketrobinsoccerintoronto.com/reports13/13tfc015.htm
some pictures from that game and also a more play by play
report than what I fist posted on this thread.