Match Thread: Voyageurs Cup - Preliminary Round - Cavalry v Vancouver FC - April 23, 2024

[narduch]

Game is at 7pm MT (6pm PT / 9pm ET) on One Soccer.

Cavalry have 3 wins and 1 draw all time against VFC.

The winner of this match up will face the Whitecaps in the quarter-finals.

[chalms04]

Looking like a beautiful 14 degrees at kickoff tomorrow.

This match is not included in the season ticket pack, but if they advance the Whitecaps match will be.

Sparse crowd so far, but the cheapest ticket is $15: https://cavalryfc.canpl.ca/canchamp

[masster]

3 hours ago, chalms04 said:

Looking like a beautiful 14 degrees at kickoff tomorrow.

This match is not included in the season ticket pack, but if they advance the Whitecaps match will be.

Sparse crowd so far, but the cheapest ticket is $15: https://cavalryfc.canpl.ca/canchamp

That seems a little backwards...

[narduch]

4 minutes ago, masster said:

That seems a little backwards...

Also a little arrogant?

[chalms04]

https://calgaryherald.com/sports/soccer/calgary-cavalry/home-debut-cavalry-fc-round-1-canadian-championship

 

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Cavalry midfielder Jesse Daley (leg) is questionable for the Cup contest. His status will be determined by a pre-game fitness test … Cavs midfielder Maël Henry (hamstring) and defender Callum Montgomery (foot) are out for the game against Vancouver FC.

 

[narduch]

Pretty cool to get injury updates from the media ahead of a match 

[nolando]

I'm stoked about tonight. I'm  hoping VFC can grind out a result and get a coveted match vs Caps, which would be the perfect fairytale story for the league to market.

Based on last week, and in the absence of any official reports I have seen, I'd say Elliot Simmons is probably still out for VFC. I saw James Cameron in the photo set of the team traveling to Alberta so I presume he is fit enough to play if needed. I'd expect an unchanged 11 from the first two victories as no sensible manager would tinker with what is working.

[chalms04]

https://northerntribune.ca/2024-canadian-championship-cavalry-vancouver-preview/

 

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While Vancouver FC has had the tightest busiest schedule of any CPL side, you’ll see no complaints from Afshin: despite only having four days between his side’s earlier league matches and three days to today’s cup bout, he says his team has a clean bill of health.

“I think the team is fit enough to play every three days,” he says of the tight schedule. “We’re deep enough if necessary to start different members and have a good team on the pitch. Everyone is ready to go.”

Given Elliot Simmons had been sidelined in the start of the campaign, that means his season could potentially open against his former side.

Afshin also revealed that while the team travelled two days before away matches last year, he has adjusted the club’s travel plans for year two: Vancouver will now travel only the day before a match, with some exceptions for early afternoon games.

Sounds like like Simmo is good to go.

Interesting tidbit at the end: saving money on hotels to send a full complement of subs perhaps?

[Cheeta]

4 hours ago, chalms04 said:

https://northerntribune.ca/2024-canadian-championship-cavalry-vancouver-preview/

 

Sounds like like Simmo is good to go.

Interesting tidbit at the end: saving money on hotels to send a full complement of subs perhaps?

Don't know.  Maybe.  Would have to look at the numbers to see if there is a savings.  Difference in flight costs may be undoing, or even more than undoing any accommodation savings.  Or not.

I do buy into the argument that the shorter the stay away from home the better.  Not always practical but he acknowledges that.

[narduch]

[nolando]

No Simmons afterall. 

And Is this Lucas Dias, the dual who came in from Portugal?

[nolando]

17 year-old TJ, 19 year-old Cameron, and 20 year-old Crawford on the bench for VFC. And the 21 year-old Mexican Navarro.

[Big_M]

19 minutes ago, nolando said:

No Simmons afterall. 

And Is this Lucas Dias, the dual who came in from Portugal?

yup

[jonovision]

Go Cavs!

[Watchmen]

What an atrocious breakaway. 

[nolando]

Cameron for injured Chung, please.

[nolando]

41 minutes ago, jonovision said:

Go Cavs!

Go Eagles!

[Big_M]

41' cameron in for injured chung...guessing gee goes to rb

[Big_M]

nope cameron goes to rb and gee stays on the left

[Canuckia]

2 minutes ago, nolando said:

Go Eagles!

Go Rovers...oh wait...wrong thread.

[narduch]

Scoreless at the half

[Mihairokov]

VFC look ok so far. I'm hesitant to call them good until they get positive results against teams in the top half of the table and it seems like they're closer to that.

[nolando]

16 minutes ago, Big_M said:

nope cameron goes to rb and gee stays on the left

Cameron is better at RB than LB, imo. An aside, apparently he was mostly a striker when playing BCSPL for North Van FC. He looks like he has added a lot of muscle in the off-season. Appropriate they call him Terminator.

Edited April 24 by nolando

[Mihairokov]

7 minutes ago, nolando said:

Cameron is better at RB than LB, imo. An aside, apparently he was mostly a striker when playing BCSPL for North Van FC. He looks like he has added a lot of muscle in the off-season. Appropriate they call him Terminator.

Better that than The Abyss 😋

[Big_M]

59' trafford dias akio out brooks camargo gutierrez in