Lou City 2 Tampa Bay1 As it Happened

Jun 7

Link to Elizabeth’s photo gallery of the match

6-7-25 Lou City FC 2-Tampa Bay Rowdies 1 — Fleur-de-lis FC

Tampa Bay is a terrible place. It is hot and humid and a target for hurricanes. The only cool things about Tampa Bay are that the Rowdies often have cool hooped kits. The run from 2016 to 2020 is pretty solid. Lots of people hate them. I think that they are great. Also, Al Lang stadium is cool. Neither one of those things was relevant on this evening so all in all, Tampa Bay can suck it.

Lou City lined up as:

1-Las, 2-McFadden, 4- Totsch, 5-Ordonez, 7-Serrano, 9-Goodrum, 13-Dia, 17-T Davila, 25-Wilson, 27-E Davila, 32-Adams (C)

5th Minute

Goodrum checks a Rowdie defender with a nice shove to let him know he is there and adds a comment to boot.

7th Minute

McFadden makes a great run to receive a fine pass from Adams. His header is saved but Goodrum is there to guide it in with “the lower part of his chest” (his words).

14th Minute

McFadden wins free kick just outside of the18 in cental position. Davila the Elder, skies it in a relatively tame effort.

16th Minute

Taylor Davila steps in to intercept a pretty sloppy pass in the Rowdies’ end, Serrano slots it home easily and Lou City is up 2-0 early.

18th Minute

Ordonez gets booked on a late but necessary tackle to prevent a good chance for the Rowdies.

19th Minute

Lou City is playing a slightly different formation with the absence of both Perezes from the starting lineup and McFadden especially is finding himself in very high attacking positions.

23rd Minute

Totsch has a virtually wide-open header cleared off the line.

26th Minute

For no reason that I can determine, someone yells, ‘You suck Wyke”. What did he ever do to you, random Estopinal End guy? On the other hand, his recent Fotmob ratings kind of bear that out but he ends the night with a 7.5 rating. Keep your head up, Wyke.

29th Minute

Goodrum is in disbelief that an obvious foul that he committed was called a foul. Shortly after he is booked for an over aggressive foul. These may be the last two calls that the officials get right the rest of the evening.

31st Minute

Davila the Younger slaps the ground after missing a tackle deep in his attacking half. This leaves Lou City out of formation and Tampa Bay cut through them quickly and on Pacius’ great finish, they pull one back. The match is 2-1and that is it for the scoring.

39th Minute

Taylor Davila tries his luck from distance and the Rowdies keeper almost makes a mess of it but recovers.

44th Minute

Fans are unhappy when Dia is flagged offside mere seconds after the official refused to call a foul that was committed against Serrano. I agree. That one is a headscratcher, and it won’t be the last.

Half Time

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McFadden is playing like a man possessed. Are we sure he isn’t actually possessed? Someone might want to check on that.

Lou City’s 58% possession is impressive, but that is about to get flipped on its head.

50th Minute

Lou City wins a corner and Goodrum appears to break free from his man but misses the ball with his head.

58th Minute

Goodrum seems to be obviously fouled but it isn’t called. Lou City win a corner anyway.

61st Minute

The game seems like it is getting away from the referee. Hey, we all have bad nights. Why has no sport ever had a referee coach that can pull an official when he is obviously off his game? Probably a terrible idea but on a night like this, not nearly as terrible. The Waterfront Supporter’s Zone starts “The referee’s a wanker” chant. It’s not unwarranted.

70th Minute

The center referee misses another one. He IS a wanker.

73rd Minute

Serrano asks the crowd to get fired up for the corner, then proceeds to overcook it by about 10 yards.

81st Minute

Lou City just about scramble a good chance off the line. The last 10 minutes will be nervier than they need to be.

83rd Minute

Lancaster gets a nice cheer on entering for his brief cameo.

88th Minute

Lancaster gets a half decent chance in the box but the header goes over the bar.

Stoppage Time

McCabe picks up a yellow card. I hope it is for telling the referee that he sucked.

Lou City make enough clearance to see out a nervy last few minutes.

Full Time

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Coach Danny Cruz was pleased with the start of the match, and the defending as a whole. There is still room for improvement. Goodrum says the “lower chest” thing. Everyone wants to curb stop Rhode Island on Wednesday. Make sure that you do.

Michael Shaw