Match Thread: August 10, 2024 - Forge v Atletico Ottawa

[narduch]

Game is at 7pm ET (4pm PT) on One Soccer.

[Big_M]

big game of the week...wow walker starting instead of singh

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

The Ottawa fan bus made it.

@gator, good to see you! It's been awhile!

[Markoaleks]

Welcome Ottawa away support! 
enjoy the game and having you in the Hammer 
that said, Go Forge 

[Big_M]

9' borges hits the post

[Big_M]

21' ampomah shot saved and borges scores the rebound...deserved lead outplaying ottawa

[Big_M]

ridiculous that gonzalez has ingham sitting on the bench in such a big game and still doesnt have him as clear #1

[Big_M]

30' bekker puts a header over...ottawa is being completely outplayed...its like their midfield doesnt exist and then they have twardek and de brienne who are not good defensively...and theyre completely wasting bassett playing him on the wing he needs to touch balls centrally to make plays thats what made him the top player in the league...thats a downside of stacking your team so much you gotta make space for zapater sissoko aparicio so you send bassett to a side

[Big_M]

39' ampomah shot blocked goes to borges who scores almost same story as first goal...2-0...borges having a great time with de brienne on him

[Big_M]

41' de brienne doesnt defend properly again and borges gives it to choiniere who hits the post...de brienne goes wild at the ref and gets a 🟨

[Big_M]

2-0 halftime

gonzalez needs to get de brienne out and play bassett centrally...will need to get salter in pretty quickly too

[Big_M]

no positional changes or subs by gonzalez...hes just wasting his teams time...35 to go

[Big_M]

60' morer iliadis in zapater tabla out

[Big_M]

lol de brienne wins a tackle and celebrates wildly...think he forgot his team is down two

72'🟨bekker

salter still on the bench ridiculous

[Big_M]

75' salter antinoro in twardek bassett out

[Big_M]

78' belewu badibanga cisse in borges choiniere ampomah out

[Big_M]

81' jensen in bekker out

[Big_M]

86' cisseeee makes it 3-0 on a breakaway...what an outside of the foot pass over by hojabrpour...forge now one point from ottawa with a game in hand

[Big_M]

90' hamilton in poku out

[Big_M]

🟨kalongo

[Big_M]

final score 3-0

ottawa having their drop in form while forge and cavalry climb

[gator]

3 hours ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

The Ottawa fan bus made it.

@gator, good to see you! It's been awhile!

Great to see you and the lads, I hope you still enjoyed your brief visit to The Hammer despite the outcome, I did meet a bunch of your supporters on the way out who were staying the night!

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

5 hours ago, gator said:

Great to see you and the lads, I hope you still enjoyed your brief visit to The Hammer despite the outcome, I did meet a bunch of your supporters on the way out who were staying the night!

Thanks.

Made it back to Ottawa safe and sound.

It was a fun bus trip despite the loss.

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Forge didn't particularly look good so much as Ottawa looked bad, bad defensively and without any clear ideas or any desire to counterattack when they could.

There is individual talent in this Ottawa team, but over the last 4 games it's just that they have looked poorly coached.

[Ozzie_the_parrot]

6 hours ago, Big_M said:

86' cisseeee makes it 3-0 on a breakaway...what an outside of the foot pass over by hojabrpour...forge now one point from ottawa with a game in hand

Questions need to be asked about why big Wayne Gretzky in goal stayed rooted to his spot when Cisse's first touch was so poor but maybe Atletico had collectively thrown in the towel by then.

[JamboAl]

10 hours ago, gator said:

Great to see you and the lads, I hope you still enjoyed your brief visit to The Hammer despite the outcome, I did meet a bunch of your supporters on the way out who were staying the night!

Sorry I missed you yesterday as well.  I was in the club seats at the other end of the stadium.  
Could hear both the Barton St Batallion and the CCSG folks quite well.