As I am kitted out, ready to depart my gracious hosts for this derby, I can't help but think "what the hell am I doing here?!?" I'm still a bit sore, it took way too long to get out of the GTA, it's kinda warm, and we still have to battle Montreal traffic to get to Stade Fromage. I know Montreal is crap looking upwards and our beloved Robins are on the brink of a tumble downwards, but when haven't they been. Amirite?
Onto the match:
10 - GOAL - Gilberto with a cracker fired from 15 yards dead centre of goal. Magic!
ROBINS 1, FROMAGE 0
54 - GOAL - Oduro out-paces his marker, in on goal from 30 yds. out, almost takes too many touches as Perkins gets some of his chip, but as it's trickling toward the goal line, Luke Moore wins the race and lunges the ball over the line. The tourists rejoice.
ROBINS 2, FROMAGE 0
73 - SUB - Jackson comes in for Oduro
73 - SUB - Henry's shorts come off for a new pair of shorts. Seriously.
80 - SUB - Warner off for Bekker
82 - Hagglund heads it off the bar from just in front of goal, on the rebound Jackson has a go but stopped by a desperate defender's lunge. Ensuing corner has a beautiful Gilberto curling shot just bend around the far post.
89 - SUB - Lovitz comes in for Gilberto.
4 mins of extra time
FULL TIME : TORONTO 2, MONTREAL O
90+8 - Oh yeah, we are still being penned off. This is clearly for everyone's safety
90±12 - no problem selling beer to the section up until the 75th minute, but there's an issue with one lone person needing to rid their body of the beer. Makes sense.
90+15 - guy in a leather hat makes his escape, and all security can do is get in the way of letting him leave it appears. Now leather hat guy is hopping over the railing to circumvent the lone security guard in his way.
90+21 - someone in traveling support has lit a fire in the stands. Of course, because that's just what you do.
90+28 - OK now we can leave our seats and for some of us, pee
90+31 - of course we can't leave the way we entered the ground. Sure, let's leave by this other new and exciting way.
90+34 - oh look, this is where the players leave from. @kzknowles gets her shirt autographed. Find out by whom next Vocal Minority Podcast!
90+38 - underground parking. We will be out of here in no ti...
90+44 - This isn't our lot. OK how do we get out of here
90+49 - exiting B underground lot. Of course we didn't park here.
90+52 - "oh this looks like the way we came" said many characters in a horror film
90+55 - man the Big O is super creepy when it appears that you are one of the last humans around for miles.
90+63 - no seriously, where's our lot? I tell my friend to text his wife and to tell her that he loves her, just in case we can't make it back alive.
90+68 - oh a sign... What do you mean there's underground parking lots of A1, A2, A3 and A4? No wonder locals resent this place.
90+71 - this looks like parking but how does one get in
90+73 - here's an entrance. Playing "Marco Polo" with the car lock button on my key and I can hear it but I can't see it yet... Found it. We are going to live!
Man of the Match : I liked what the new kid was doing so Warren Creavalle gets it
Goat of the Game : not applicable
Ref Rating : 4 out of 5. Not bad at all
Kit Spotting : a family of Gremio kits should have won but a traveling supporter has Ruiz on his back so that's a lock
I Am Not The Gaffer But... : I would have made the first substitute earlier, taken Osorio off for Lovitz but well played so no issues here
If You PVR'd It : not a classic but watch the Gilberto goal again. And then one more time.
I kinda feel bad for Jack Mac & Ernie. Last season they were the super hot sensations in Philly and now they're struggling on a terrible Impact side. Hope they regain their form soon... What is Oduro thinking? On Wednesday, he took a pile of terrible shots from terrible angles and tonight he tries to lay it off on a 25 yard breakaway. The pass got through but I'd be surprised to think that anyone would have been upset to see him shoot... Why don't we have a song for Doneil Henry yet?
Player Ratings : Bendik 7, Creavalle 7.5, Hagglund 7, Henry 7, Morrow 6.5, Oduro 6.5 [Jackson N/A], Bradley 7, Warner 6.5 [Bekker N/A], Osorio 6, Gilberto 7 [Lovitz N/A], Moore 7
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