Match Thread: July 15, 2023 - Forge v Valour

[narduch]

Game is at 7pm ET (6pm CT) on One Soccer and Fubo 

[jonovision]

Valour have been terrible for a month, but on the other hand they have a history of decent results against Forge.

The bigger question is: will they score a goal?

[K Edgar]

Manjrekar James and Malik Owolabi-Belewu suspended due to yellow card accumulation.

[K Edgar]

Baquero in midfield?  Haynes is back from injury on bench.  Siaj and Sanchez not in lineup

 

Edited July 15, 2023 by K Edgar

[jonovision]

I assume de Brienne and Baquero are the outside backs as usual. 

I like the thinking here: all our strikers are crap? Don't play any strikers.

[narduch]

[Ftduck]

3 hours ago, jonovision said:

The bigger question is: will they score a goal?

Yes

[Big_M]

oh boy its hoskins in the middle...what kind of mess will we see today?

[Big_M]

onesoccer has de brienne at striker...interesting

[Big_M]

de brienne was at lb and has to come out...mzoughi in

[jonovision]

This could not possibly have started any worse. Valour back in deep injury trouble.

[davey_twelve]

Pianelli is not good on the ball. Yikes.

[jonovision]

1 minute ago, davey_twelve said:

Pianelli is not good on the ball. Yikes.

I wouldn't say it's fair to characterize his play this season in that way. Tonight, certainly.

[jonovision]

How are Forge not up 2 or 3-0? This is the most dire Valour have looked all year.

[Big_M]

samuel down at 45 and they decide to use a sub window to send in poku

[Big_M]

gutierrez hurt and at 45+3 they send in cela instead of waiting until the break...now used two sub windows...will forge get it done or choke?

[jonovision]

Hoskins HAS to give a yellow there if it's not a penalty.

[K Edgar]

14 minutes ago, jonovision said:

How are Forge not up 2 or 3-0? This is the most dire Valour have looked all year.

That seems a little harsh.  Forge dominated possession but Valour defense held fairly well.  Not too many chances surrendered.  Mizoughi looks good going forward and only very worrying once on D.

Guti's sub is worrying!

Edited July 16, 2023 by K Edgar

[Big_M]

that looked like a good goal from campbell...hoskins goes to the ar takes a couple minutes and stays with the offside call

[davey_twelve]

Campbell with another, but incorrectly ruled offside.

[Big_M]

yes down now

[Big_M]

novak in for baptiste at 62...thats the third sub window used...any more injuries and they could play short

[Big_M]

this time its good...campbell makes it 1-0 at 66

[jonovision]

Cursed team. Still no big moments in 5 years

[Ftduck]

There you go.