Teams: UKC: Viner, Poulton, Bathe, Reid, Wallingford, Peacock, Reid, Boudreau, Parsley, MacIntyre, Karkilins.
MSVU: Forgeron, Burgess, Doell, Every, Choi, Andrew Thompson, Kreig, MacPherson, Goodwin, Hafez, Simmons.
1min: MSVU kick-off and lose possession.
2min: MacIntyre latches onto a pass from Bathe but his cross blows past everyone. A fell wind is on the air.
5min: GOAL! Karkilins scores, deflecting a bouncer past Forgeron and into the net. A soft goal.
8min: GOAL! Parsley scores, and that was too easy, with last week's ACAA player of the week trotting down the left channel and scoring with ease.
10min: Is this over already?
13min: MacIntyre blazes a shot just wide from a tight, but not impossible, angle.
19min: Craig Every--official long-ball thumper of the Mystics--thumps a long ball in the general direction of the Kings' net. not for the first time, it's intercepted.
20min: Boudreau forces Forgeron to his left with a nice low shot.
24min: Free kick about 26 yards out for MSVU. Choi will take it. A miss.
26min: Viner with an impressive strip on Simmons, as the Mystics' striker broke away from Poulton with very tangible ideas about scoring.
28min: A nice free kick in leaves Viner a spectator, this time. All the MSVU shirts in the box were also spectators, sadly.
30min: GOAL! Parsley is spotted by Anders Peacock, who rolls a nice pass behind the defenders. Forgeron simply isn't quick enough off his line and Parsley calmly chips it past him and into goal. MSVU need to have a thorough search of the locker room--their defenders haven't come out of it yet.
33min: Karkilins misses what should have been goal number 4 by millimetres after a nice hard cross from MacIntyre. And hasn't MacIntyre shown up this year! Last year he was a "grinder"--the guy who came on, intimidated the other team with his tackles, got booked, and then yanked off before he could be sent off. This year he's been explosive offensively while being just as strong physically. He's brought a much more rounded game this year and he's much more entertaining to watch. The yellow cards just show he's involved, now.
35min: Karkilins us cut down late and Everly ends up in the book. The free kick's in a dangerous position, especially with the wind, but Peacock misses with his left boot. He missed by quite a distance, too.
37min: Parsley nearly gets his third as Forgeron tries to make a save by charging miles out of his net when he didn't really need to. He doesn't save it, but Parsley's shot sails wide, instead.
39min: MSVU with some sustained pressure, although mainly due to a shoddy throw-in call which allowed the Mystics to maintain possession.
40min: What footwork from MacIntyre, leaving Kreig for dead and then picking out Karkilins, who mishits his shot.
43min: The Mount earn a chance and Simmons misses a rather easy volley. It doesn't matter, though, play was already called for some offense or another.
44min: Forgeron with a save! Boudreau didn't have much of an angle, but a decent save and Forgeron did well to hold it, too.
45min: MacIntyre gets a stud in the knee and launches into a series of expletives which might have gotten him booked if his complaints weren't completely justified.
45+min: GOAL! An odd one, too. Parsley does some amazing ball work to evade an out of position Forgeron, but he's dispossed at the top of the box. Karkilins claims it and fires into an open goal, but Choi's arm gets in the way. Before the ref can blow, Boudreau's put it in anyway. The ref lets it stand, and Choi gets booked for his blatant handball. He's probably lucky to escape a red--if advantage hadn't been played then he'd have denied a goal scoring opportunity, which is a textbook sending-off.
Half-time is called.
45min: So here are the MSVU changes: Scott Thompson is on for Hafez, Meagher for Andrew Thompson, and Little is also in for Simmons.
46min: Scott Thompson is immediately booked for dissent on a nothing offside call.
49min: Karkilins has a try from a distance. It slices across his body and just misses the far post. Nice shot, and Forgeron had no chance if that had been on target.
50min: MSVU are a fairly static team, an the wind is playing havoc with their long passes. Kings' are keeping it down and are able to move it very quickly, even in the high winds.
53min: Turkish midfielder Ibrahim Yuksel replaces MacPherson.
54min: A nice MSVu cross is cut back and comes to Little three yards from goal. He misses the net.
55min: MSVU are beginning to get the wind in their direction and the long balls are now causing Kings' a little more trouble. MSVU still have to find a way around 6'4" Greg Bathe, who is phenomenal in the air.
56min: Corner to MSVU. Palmer-Dxon comes on for Kings'. Not sure who went off, though it might have been Peacock. Simmons comes back in, Burgess comes out.
57min: Poulton draws a yellow for catching Krieg late. The fans around me are of the opinion Krieg embellished and I'd say they've got a point, though it may still have warranted a card. Krieg made the most of it, though.
60min: Boudreau fouls up a bike kick, but props for the effort anyhow.
61min: Little and Simmons link up in attack, but the latter misses from close range. Not the first time the Mystics (or Simmons, for that matter) have done that.
66min: Burleton has evidently replaced Karkilins at some point. MacIntyre commits a stupid foul in the midfield.
67min: MacIntyre hammers a shot Forgeron's way, which the Mystics' keeper does well to save.
69min: GOAL! Parsley gets his third! MacIntyre holds it up nicely for Kings', and finds Parsley, who drills his shot low into the corner. Between the quality of the shot and the wind, Forgeron had no chance. Superb strike from Parsley, too, very deserving of goal number three. Curci has just replaced Bathe. What a game for Parsley--perhaps deserving of a second stright player of the week honour?
73min: Nice chance for Little, but he contrives to drill his shot into Viner's gut.
74min: Every flirts with ejection for arguing a call as he was being lectured on hauling down Palmer-Dixon.
78min: Kings' get a bit restless (and possibly bored) and decide to shoot from 40 yards out. The effort is predictably weak.
80min: MSVU generate some more pressure, but they just don't look like they can score. Not passing quickly enough, a lack of decision-making. Kings' have been good, if not brilliant defensively. A team could break them down, but not the Mount.
82min: Boudreau decides to loose a shot into the wind and see where it goes. It nearly goes in, but not quite as it curls wide. Wallingford comes off for Straatof.
85min: Some more MacIntyre magic results in a corner from a narrow, deflected miss. It comes to nothing.
90min: Full-time. Another 5-0 thumping. Kings' have now scored 5 goals against 3 of the 5 other teams in the ACAA--they've played 4 of them, have yet to play UNBSJ, and were limited to three and then two against Holland College. All this while conceding just five goals. And still, C.J. Young seems less than ecstatic with the performance. He may just be trying to keep confidence down, but it does make you wonder what they're capable of in the playoffs.
