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

[narduch]

Shome red carded.

Can Vancouver capitalize.

61st minute

[nolando]

Unlucky for Shome. Even as an Eagles fan, I feel a bit sorry for him.

[nolando]

Taking Dias off helps VFC immensely. Wheeldon not showing great decision-making there while in the middle of auditioning for Canada Soccer.

[narduch]

Warschewski scores!

10-man Cavalry lead 1-0 

Edited April 24 by narduch

[Big_M]

lol how is vancouver so sloppy up a player...1-0 cavalry

[nolando]

VFC did that to themsleves. Norman poor on the attempted heading clearance.

Edited April 24 by nolando

[Big_M]

70' shaw in for warschewski

vancouver looked completely disorganized and not knowing what to do...gotta change something

[Big_M]

time added on field in for musse

[nolando]

Lots of sub-par performances for VFC for me: Norman, Diaz, Bitar, and Fry's distribution has been terrible today.

[Big_M]

last two minutes gee smacks one shot and one cross way out behind

1-0 final

cavalry advance to face the whitecaps

[nolando]

And Gee also not great. We hardly connected three passes together tonight.

[BearcatSA]

1 hour 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.

He looked like a well built athlete last year, considering his age.  After watching him live last season as well on video, he might actually develop into a good CB with those athletic strengths.

[BearcatSA]

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Edited April 24 by BearcatSA

[BearcatSA]

19 minutes ago, BearcatSA said:

He looked like a well built athlete last year, considering his age.  After watching him live last season as well on video, he might actually develop into a good CB with those athletic strengths.

After watching him at far post on the goal, either the guy scoring is a really  big dude or Cameron is shorter than I thought.

[Aird25]

15 minutes ago, BearcatSA said:

After watching him at far post on the goal, either the guy scoring is a really  big dude or Cameron is shorter than I thought.

Warschewski? I think he’s a pretty big guy soccer in soccer terms. Odd play as well

Edited April 24 by Aird25

[Mihairokov]

Cameron didn't go up for the ball, I guess because he thought Irving would catch it.

[nolando]

40 minutes ago, BearcatSA said:

After watching him at far post on the goal, either the guy scoring is a really  big dude or Cameron is shorter than I thought.

Cameron is right around six feet, but it was Irving who looked to be really lacking height (or hops or leadership) in that goalmouth scramble.

[Watchmen]

Congratulations to TSS, for continuing to be the 3rd most successful BC club in the Voyageurs Cup.

[chalms04]

Nice to see them step it up after doing down to 10 men. 

Cavs hosting leg 1 May 7, second leg at BC Place May 21.

 

Edited April 24 by chalms04

[nolando]

The more I think about it, the more I am sure Vancouver was just outcoached last night.

No real tactical shift with the man advantage; in fact we seemed to be playing a tonne of passbacks and square balls instead of truly attacking. It was VFC's game and the manager just simply failed to reach out and grasp it.

I also think TJ should have come on for Bitar for the last 15 minutes or so. My concerns about the youngsters not playing much will soon be a broken record.

Vancouver looked like a team that added a lot of CPL squad players instead of a lot of CPL impact players.

And I will continie my great skepticism of what Wero Dias is bringing to this side, which to me looks like precious little.

[Watchmen]

 

[Unnamed Trialist]

2 hours ago, Watchmen said:

Good pick-up Zach.

Surprised the CPL does not have an official ball, what is that all about?

[narduch]

2 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

Good pick-up Zach.

Surprised the CPL does not have an official ball, what is that all about?

Wouldn't it be up to the CSA to provide the balls for the Voyageurs Cup? It's their tournament.

It's not run by the CPL

[Unnamed Trialist]

Just now, narduch said:

Wouldn't it be up to the CSA to provide the balls for the Voyageurs Cup? It's their tournament.

It's not run by the CPL

That may be it, not a big enough tournament for a ball to be official. 

Looking at this, I see the CPL does use Derbystar, which is what VFC expected to play with at Spruce Groves.

https://northerntribune.ca/canadian-premier-league-match-ball-2024-2025/

[narduch]

6 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

That may be it, not a big enough tournament for a ball to be official. 

Looking at this, I see the CPL does use Derbystar, which is what VFC expected to play with at Spruce Groves.

https://northerntribune.ca/canadian-premier-league-match-ball-2024-2025/

I tried looking at the highlights of both the 1st 2 Canadian Championship games and the ball does look similar