Pittsburgh’s Drought at Frontier Continues
Keith Kiedrowski,
a-league.com Match Reporter
Rochester
ROCHESTER, NY, June
9, 2003
– Pittsburgh come to Frontier Field in the hopes of finally getting a win and
breaking their Rochester curse. So far in this match up history the best
Pittsburgh has managed at Frontier Field has been a tie.
In the 9th minute Rochester Looked to take the lead
when, Steenkamp crossed a perfect ball into the box. Ian fuller was able to
beat everyone to the ball and got a nice head on it. However, Pittsburgh’s
Keeper, T.J. Hanning, was able to get in from of the shot.
Not to be out down Pittsburgh quickly countered and less than a
minute later sent a sure goal in. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh the shot hit the
upper corner of the post and rebounded harmlessly away.
Rochester continued to create chances and Doug Miller was inside
the 6 when Pittsburgh’s defense came up with the big tackle to win and clear
the ball. Pittsburg began to dominate the offense after that point forcing
Andracki to make 4 saves by the halftime whistle.
The first half saw both sides control the ball about the same
amount of time while Rochester’s midfield and forwards appeared to be working
on different pages.
Almost 10 minutes into the second half, the deadlock would be
broken when Pittsburgh did them selves in with an own goal in the 54th
minute. This was all Rochester needed to win as the attacks from Pittsburg
dropped dramatically and they never force Andracki to make a save in the final
45.
Each side could not get any sort of rhythm going as the official
was calling every foul in the book and disrupted the flow of the game. In the
76th minute one of these fouls would lead to Rochester’s second
goal.
Substitute Temoc Suarez lined up over a free kick outside
Pittsburgh’s 18. Placing it perfectly, Temoc bet the ball around the left side
of the wall and low to the ground. Hanning reacted too late and was not able to
save the shot.
In the 80th minute Pittsburgh almost got a goal but
defender Craig Demmin was able to slide and get his foot in the way at the last
moment. Few other chances were created by either side. The best of these
chances came just before the final whistle when Rochester’s Viktor Paco missed
a wide open on goal.
Despite the defense being suspect so far this year Rochester
continued their dominance over Pittsburgh at Frontier Field. With the season
well under way, Rochester looks to be getting some rhythm that they will need
to fend of the rest of their division.
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Time
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Goal Scorer & Assist
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Score
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54
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OWN GOAL
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ROC 1 – PITT 0
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76
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Suarez
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ROC 2 – PITT 0
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Starting Lineups
Y = Yellow Card
R = Red Card
Rochester Raging Rhinos
Formation: 4-4-2
1 GK – Bill Andracki
3 D – Craig Demmin
4 D – Scott Schweitzer
5 D – Yuri Lavrinenko (Carlos Mendes 73’)
11 D – Bill Sedgewick
10 M – Stoian Mladenov
21 M – Kirk Wilson
12 M – David Hayes (Temoc Suarez 65’)
23 M – Lenin Steenkamp
24 F – Ian Fuller (Viktor Paco 61’)
19 F – Doug Miller
Opponent
Formation: 4-4-2
22 GK – T.J. Hanning
3 D – Eric Ongao
6 D – Brent Jacquette
14 D – Matt Chulis
15 D – David Wright
7 M – Justin Evans
8 M – Joey Worthen
11 M – Ricardo Villar
21 M – Derek Potteiger
9 F – Thiago Martins
13 F – David Flavis
How They Fared
Here’s how we feel the Rhinos fared against Opponent:
8 = Highest, 0 = Lowest
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Player
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Keith’s Rating
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Comments
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1 GK – Bill
Andracki
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6
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Made the saves
when he was called on
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5 D – Yuri
Lavrinenko
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6
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Hustler. Always
hard on the ball. Never stopped working
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3 D – Craig
Simmons
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6
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Adjusting his
play to speed of opponents offense. Looking like the Craig Rochester is use
to seeing
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4 D – Scott
Schweitzer
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5
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Solid defense and
setup
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11 M – Bill
Sedgewick
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6
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As always he
never quits. Great hustle
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10 M – Stoian
Mladenov
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4
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Did not look
good. Crosses and passes went to no one more often than not
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21 M – Kirk
Wilson
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6
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Constant thereat
to Pittsburg
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12 M – David
Hayes
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5
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Getting better at
distributing the ball but still need to improve
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7 M – Temoc
Suarez
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8
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Excellent free
kick and hustle
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23 M – Lenin
Steenkamp
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6
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Making more of
his presence felt but still not dominating as he use to
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24 F – Ian Fuller
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5
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Good Performance.
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19 F – Doug
Miller
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5
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Made Pittsburg
play back because of speed threat
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Coaches
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5
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Small tweaking of
line-up in attempt to find perfect match…. Still needs tweaking.
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Statistics
SHOTS:
ROC: 8
PITT: 9
SAVES:
ROC: 3
PITT: 4
FOULS:
ROC: 13
PITT: 14
CAUTIONS/EJECTIONS:
ROC: 0/0
PITT: 1/0
ATTENDANCE: 9,173
