Match Thread: May 6, 2023 - Valour v HFX Wanderers

[narduch]

Game is at 3pm CT (5pm AT, 4pm ET) on One Soccer and Fubo.

Wanderers have 8 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses all time v Valour.

[K Edgar]

[jonovision]

Baquero sits, Mzoughi in. Samake healthy. Everyone else slots in where you'd expect. Baquero has been good, so a bit of a strange one.

[K Edgar]

2 minutes ago, jonovision said:

Baquero sits, Mzoughi in. Samake healthy. Everyone else slots in where you'd expect. Baquero has been good, so a bit of a strange one.

Starting 3 U21's!  Haynes and Saij on the "bench" may not be healthy.

[EnigMattic1]

I hate when they do the lineup like that. It is misleading. I look at that and see it as a back 4 consisting of Samake, Campbell, Williams and Guti.

[K Edgar]

25 minutes ago, EnigMattic1 said:

I hate when they do the lineup like that. It is misleading. I look at that and see it as a back 4 consisting of Samake, Campbell, Williams and Guti.

Numerical order is not particularly useful.  The Valour tweets list the player in order by position.  Speaking of which, last year Valour had the best tweets, today they are not even tweeting the starting line?!?

Edited May 6, 2023 by K Edgar

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

The gridiron is way too visible.

[Weng]

From where I’m sitting the gridiron isn’t  really noticeable.

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

Maybe it's just a webstreaming thing then.

[Weng]

I noticed on the screen.  They are more visible than usual from higher up.  I haven’t found it distracting though 

[K Edgar]

Scoreless at the half.  Pacifique looked dangerous in the first half.  Slight edge in play to Valour, imho.

[Lurker]

If Nimic keeps this up he won’t be a Wanderer for too much longer.

[jonovision]

Mzoughi's defending has not been, let's say, convincing. Otherwise a decent half of football. It would nice for Valour to show a bit more decisiveness in the final third.

One nice thing about this way-too-large stadium is that it blocks most of the wind. Nice day out at the park even if it's howling a bit.

[Big_M]

so many bad touches and good chances on both sides but not able to score

[jonovision]

Haynes appears to be healthy based on this half time kickabout for the subs. Baquero mostly looking on.

[K Edgar]

3 minutes ago, jonovision said:

Haynes appears to be healthy based on this half time kickabout for the subs. Baquero mostly looking on.

Not another Valour injury ; not Baquero!

[EnigMattic1]

Mahith Gamage praising de Brienne on Twitter by the look of things.

[Aird25]

1 hour ago, Ozzie_the_parrot said:

The gridiron is way too visible.

I hadn’t even noticed it but now I do

[jonovision]

A 4th week of a makeshift backline starting to catch up to Valour. The Cela-Mzoughi side is having a rough time of it.

[narduch]

I will probably jinx one team now but the league is starting to have a goal scoring problem 

[Big_M]

de brienne and mzoughi look so weak but hfx not fully taking advantage

[grasshopper1917]

Has the paint dried yet????

[jonovision]

De Brienne has been fine. Mzoughi is having a nightmare but he's not a guy Valour would have expected to have to start any matches this year.

[K Edgar]

1 minute ago, Big_M said:

de brienne and mzoughi look so weak but hfx not fully taking advantage

Weak 2nd half from Valour.  MF is struggling to get the ball forward.

[Weng]

7 minutes ago, jonovision said:

De Brienne has been fine. Mzoughi is having a nightmare but he's not a guy Valour would have expected to have to start any matches this year.

The one tackle Mzoughi tried to make was nowhere even close to getting the ball.  It allowed Halifax a decent chance.  Definitely needs to develop and make better decisions.