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PFC loses Teixeira, team needs to step it up

By Marco Smits
The Review-Mirror

July 13, 2006

The Portland Football Club lost their main striker on Thursday.

In a game against the Cataraqui Clippers that took a rough turn in the second half, Nathan Teixeira took a knee to his thigh that forced him out of the game.

Teixeira, who scored all PFC goals this season, was later examined and will likely be out for four weeks. The same ClippersÕ defender that committed the foul on Teixeira was later given a yellow card for another offence.

Tommy Mercer gets nailed in the final minute
"The whole team is going to have to step up," said PFC coach Anders Carson. "It is a team sport. Everyone realizes we are going to have to pick up our game, this is when true leaders come through. We have someone down on our team, letÕs all pick up our game," Carson said.

In the first half on Thursday the Clippers dominated the game, but outstanding goaltending from Christian Bresee kept PFC in contention. Bresee, who is quickly gaining a reputation in the league for his determined and dominating style of goaltending, stopped at least six scoring chances in the first 45 minutes.

In the second half PFC took the game to the visitors.

At times Portland attacked with five strikers. As the pressure on the Clippers goal increased some of their defenders showed undisciplined behavior.

As the final whistle blew, Tommy Mercer was tackled by two Clippers. Mercer stayed down for more than 15 minutes and was examined on the field. Despite injuring his shoulder he is expected to return to the team this week.

The final score was 2-0 for Cataraqui who had three wins, two ties and two losses coming into the game.

PFC was one, one and five.

"We are going to have to have more runs into the box by our defenders. We were working on that in practice on Monday," said Carson. PFC opened the season against the Belleville boys with a 1-1 tie at home.

The next Portland home game is on July 20 when the boys take on Quinte West at Kin Park on Harlem Road at 8:30 p.m.



Nathan Teixeira - Out for four weeks





 
 
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