Match Thread: CONCACAF U-17, Round of 16: Canada v Haiti - Saturday, February 18, 2023 - 5pm PT/8pm ET

[narduch]

Concacaf U-17 Championship Round of 16

Time: 8pm ET/5pm PT

TV: One Soccer/Fubo

Venue: Estadio Pensativo, Antigua, Guatemala

Haiti finished in 3rd place in Group H. Beating Suriname but losing to El Salvador and Honduras

[narduch]

[narduch]

[gator]

C'Mon you Reds! This should be a decent match up!

Edit: Maybe it should be C'mon you whites tonight?🤭

Edited February 19, 2023 by gator

[gator]

Get in! Great start!

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

On 2/7/2023 at 2:43 AM, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

Haiti:

• DANLEY FELIX
• DYLAN ALEXIS
• SAMUEL LAMARE
• SEBATIEN JOSEPH

Two of the four Canadian-based players are starting for Haiti.

[Gian-Luca]

Great start, but as Han Solo once said, don’t get cocky!

[El Hombre]

Nice to see that for N'Diaye.

[gator]

We have been a little bit wasteful in exploiting the open spaces, some of our passing is letting us down, Haiti coming into the match now!

[gator]

Great cross and finish!

[El Hombre]

This team is a little schizophrenic.  The backline+Badwal and Biello want to build out of the back.  The only problem is that the front line and the winbacks take off like a rocket so there is no one for Badwal/Biello to pass to and they need to try a long ball.  That's on Olivieri.

[dyslexic nam]

Jesus.  I missed the first couple of minutes.  Turned on and it was 1-0.  Skipped back to see the goal and after I finished watching it I skip to current and it is 2-0.  Their defense is pretty nonexistent.  

[gator]

We should play this smart and keep some posession, there should be more chances if we are patient, when have we ever blown a 2 nil lead vs Haiti?😐

[Gian-Luca]

What is this fucking idiot of a commentator talking about regarding the negation of a “language advantage”?

[Treppy2]

Why is there a cordoned-off section of about 30 seats near the penalty area at one end, while the rest of the stadium is bleachers? Very strange.

[gator]

Haiti finished the half the brighter side, hopefully we can get back in control of this match and as I posted earlier there are many gaps in the Haitian formation that we should be able to pick out with better passing, that was a heck of a save by our keeper btw!

[gator]

That should be the last time Canada sporting kicks the ball out for their injured player, BS Concacafing at the youth level!

[Gian-Luca]

Just now, gator said:

That should be the last time Canada sporting kicks the ball out for their injured player, BS Concacafing at the youth level!

Haiti has a history of doing that to us at the youth level

[gator]

2 minutes ago, Gian-Luca said:

Haiti has a history of doing that to us at the youth level

If I remember correctly they scored a game winner vs us at the Gold Cup years ago by this same tactic, our guys were so naive!

[El Hombre]

Didn't they also do that to us during Olympic Qualifiers some years ago?

[gator]

7 minutes ago, El Hombre said:

Didn't they also do that to us during Olympic Qualifiers some years ago?

That may have been the match I was thinking of or perhaps it has happened a few times, the point is we have to learn from this and not be naive even at the youth level unfortunately!

[dyslexic nam]

Well, our Keeper just finished taking a 4 minute “Borjan break” so maybe we aren’t too naive.  

[dyslexic nam]

Boom.   One more game. 

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

Things are really starting to Pop off!

[gator]

This was a good test for us, Haiti had some skilled players and created some good chances against us, I would like to think we are improving and getting more comfortable each match together, bring on the Ticos!