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Results and details of the Sunday July 18, 2021 CPL game Valour FC vs York United FC played at IG Field
in Winnipeg Manitoba at 6:30pm CT. All league games this first month of the season are being played at this facility
'The Bubble' because of Covid protocol.
Valour FC (white socks, shorts, and backs, white & maroon halved chests, maroon names and numbers
.....................1 Jonathan Sirois
14 Stefan Cebara...2 Rodrigo Reyes...35 Andrew Jean-Baptiste (cpt)...4 Tony Mikhael
..............27 Raphael Ohin...7 Moses Dyer
...........19 William Akio...8 Keven Aleman...24 Sean Rea
......................9 Austin Ricci
Subs:...0 Matt Silva (gk)...10 Masta Kacher (fwd)...16 Daryl Fordyce (mid)...18 Jared Ulloa (fwd)
...42 Rafael Galhardo (mid)...77 Federico Pena...82 Andy Baquero
team officials:...head coach Rob Gale...assistant coach Damian Rocke...goalkeeper coach Patrick Di Stefani
...physiotherapist Carly Nordin...kitman Derrek Brogan
York United FC (blue socks, shorts, and shirt backs, blue & green striped chests, gold names and numbers)
...............................29 Nathan Ingham (cpt)
16 Max Ferrari...66 Chrisnovic N'Sa...4 Jordan Wilson...57 Terique Mohammed
19 Noah Verhoeven...44 Isaiah Johnston...28 Cedric Toussaint...20 Diyaeddine Abzi
............80 Lowell Wright...13 Osvaldo Ramirez
Subs:...1 Niko Giantsopoulos (gk)...5 Dominick Zator (def)...7 Alvaro Rivero (fwd)...11 Nicholas Hamilton (fwd)
...14 Ijah Halley (fwd)...17 Julian Ulbricht (fwd)...23 Gerard Lavergne (mid)
team officials:...head coach Jimmy Brennan...assistant coach Paul Stalteri...goalkeeper coach Camilo Benzi
...physiotherapist Antonio Petrolo...kitman Shaaru Jogathasan...team manager Alex Bizzarri
Game officials:...referee David Barrie...assistant referees Michael Hood and Stefan Tanaka-Freundt
...fourth official Ben Hoskins (light blue shirts, black shorts and socks)...fifth official Felix Cote-Leclerc
...referee assessor (none listed)
First Half:...game starts 7:44 pm CT...York defend north end on this hot evening. The sun is out but the shadows
of the stadium mean there is only a small patch of sun in the middle of the field.
2 min...Val goalie dives forward to catch York Mohammed cross from 28 yard line from left.
4 min...York goalie catches Val player's 22 yard cross from far left.
5 min...Val players apply pressure just outside 18 yard box but Val finally pass rolled forward to Val Cebara
who can't stop it rolling over end line on right.
7 min...York Wright low 22 yard shot from slight left is between defenders wide left of post.
11 min...Val Dyer passes ball to Val Akio with York Mohammed shadowing him takes 18 yard shot from right
that's just wide left of post.
12 min...York Abzi cross from 25 yards on left has flying York Ferrari head 8 yarder on right that hits body
of York Verhoeven at 5 yards on right and ball deflects for goalkick.
13 min...Valour sub...Baquero replaces injured Jean-Baptiste who'd been pushed over by York Wright
a few minutes earlier near the sideline deep in Val end. Cebaro becomes Valour captain.
16 min...York N'Sa bumps Val Ricci off ball on left edge of 18 yard box and ball rolls over end line without him
getting away shot but he wins cornerkick.
17 min...Valour Stefan Cebara GOAL...Val Sean Rea cornerkick from left has charging Val player miss header
at 7 yards on short side and ball is one-bounced through 6 yard box between three York defenders and Cebara
who was in alignment with right post connects on flying header from 5 yards into
right side of net out of reach of goalie Nathan Ingham.
18 min..York Ferrari has two shots blocked on right side of Val box then ball slips to middle for York Verhoeven
to have 12 yard shot blocked by sliding defender.
21 min...Val Aleman 35 yard freekick from lefft is cleared before it arrives in 18 yard box.
22 min...Val Aleman can't cut in on York Ferrari and York N'Sa gets in sliding tackle on left edge of 6 yard box
to concede cornerkick.
22 min...Val Rea cornerkick from left is cleared out right side of box.
25 min...York YELLOW card...Wilson earns it for clotheslining chest of Val Dyer with arm as he crosses center line
breaking out.
27 min...York Wright taps over pass along edge of box from right and York Johnston rolls weak 18 yard shot up middle
to center of goal.
30 min...a water break is called.
32 min...play resumes.
32 min...York Mohammed sends in cross and York Ramirez can't stuff in 5 yarder from near left post
but wins cornerkick on deflection off defender.
33 min...York Ferrari cornerkick from left has York Wilson run away from goal to head ball from 18 yards in middle
but Val Akio pushes him over as he jumped for header. Referee David Barrie signals for Penalty kick.
34 min...York Osvaldo Ramirez shoots Penalty kick low to left and goalie Jonathan Sirois
dives to left and pushes ball wide of post for cornerkick.
34 min...York player's cornerkick from left has Val player head ball away from box. York player chips ball from 25 yards
back into box and Val player in crowd of players at 10 yards in middle of box heads away down middle and ball knocked
around but Val start a fast break downfield. Val Ricci on 3 on 1 break delays shot and rolls ball wide left from 18 yards.
35 min...York player near left end line crosses into box and defender clears from 6 yard box.
36 min...York Cebara knocks over York Abzi for freekick on left near edge of Val box.
37 min...York Ferrari 22 yard freekick from left near edge of box rolls centering ball to charging York Mohammed
who blasts 15 yarder from slight left that deflects off defender for cornerkick.
37 min...York Ferrari cornerkick from left has ball partially cleared by defender. Ferrari gets ball back on left and taps
ball forward to York Abzi who sends high cross from 15 yards on left that has two York players near right post called offside.
41 min...Valour Austin Ricci GOAL...Val Sean Rea on rush up slight left feeds through ball pass from 28 yard line
between defenders to charging Ricci who rolls ball from 14 yards on slight left into right corner of net.
43 min...York Abzi makes solo run up the middle but is checked off ball at 15 yards and goalie catches chip up.
45 min...Val Akio on 3 on 3 break blasts 15 yarder from right that goalie pushes wide right of post.
46 min...Val Aleman cornerkick is sent downfield to Val Cabara and his high chip pass from 25 yards on right is over
to left side of box but too far.
47:12 min...half ends.
Second Half:...starts 7:15pm.
Halftime sub...York Hamilton replaces Ramirez.
48 min...York players have two shots blocked just outside of top right side of 18 yard box.
51 min...Val Ricci wins cornerkick on battle with York Wilson on left side of York box.
51 min...Val Rea cornerkick from left deflects off York Verhoeven in 6 yard box for another cornerkick.
51 min...Val players work out short cornerkick from left and is chipped into the box but popped up and knocked
for goalkick.
52 min...York Wright on rush cuts around defender and blasts 22 yard shot from left has goalie fly to push ball
wide right of post. Ball stays in play and a York player crosses from end line and York Abzi jumps at 6 yards but can't
get to header and York Wright can't fully connect on 8 yarder and ball bounces wide left for goalkick.
53 min...Val Akio shoots 15 yarder from left is wide left of net.
53 min...Valour YELLOW card...Ohin earns it for stepping on foot of York N'Sa at York 22 yard line.
54 min...York Johnston blasts 22 yard shot up middle that goalie catches in middle of net.
55 min...Valour YELLOW card...Dyer earns it for dissent. He knocked down York Toussaint who was breaking out of York end
for a freekick but then kicked the ball away to prevent a fast restart.
56 min...York Mohammed 15 yard shot from left end line wins throw-in on deflection off defender.
57 min...York Ferrari cornerkick from left has York Wright pop up header and can't keep it on play on bicycle kick.
59 min...Val subs...Pena replaces Mikhael.
.....................Fordyce replaces Rea.
60 min...Val Aleman at center line chips through ball pass for charging Val Ricci who runs up middle and 15 yard shot
from slight right is just wide left of post.
61 min...Valour YELLOW card...Reyes earns it for time wasting as he rolls the ball away delaying York's 45 yard freekick.
65 min...York Abzi pops 8 yard header well over Val net on high cross from right.
67 min...York Mohammed sends 35 yard high cross from left that's caught by goalie. Val Rea is injured in the box.
68 min...a water break is called.
70 min...play resumes.
71 min...York YELLOW card...Ferrari earns it for for tackle on Val Ricci at center line on left.
72 min...Valour Austin Ricci GOAL...Val Moses Dyer threads slip pass from 30 yards after running from right near
center line on the diagonal to middle and Ricci receives on right and rolls 12 yarder into left corner of net past
goalie protecting short side.
75 min...Val subs...Kacher replaces Akio.
.....................Galhardo replaces Dyer.
76 min...York subs...Rivero replaces Wright.
.....................Halley replaces Abzi.
.....................Ulbricht replaces Verhoeven.
.....................Lavergne replaces N'Sa.
78 min...Val Galhardo 28 yard freekick from right bounces unplayed through 6 yard box.
81 min...York goalie beats Val Rea to through ball pass to smother ball at 15 yards.
84 min...York Rivero bends 40 yard freekick from left has goalie dive forward to catch at 5 yards.
85 min...Val player's ball pass from 20 yards has another Val player tip with foot at 8 yards but defender clears from box.
88 min...York Halley blasts 25 yarder down middle well over net.
89 min...Val goalie dives to smother low shot on right post from 25 yards up middle.
90 min...York Rivero 22 yard shot from even with left post hits Val Reyes in Val wall injurying him and ball deflects
for cornerkick.
91 min...York player's cornerkick from left bounces out right side of box.
92:58 min...game ends 8:34pm.
Final Score:...Valour FC.......3.......York United FC.........0.........
Broadcaster OneSoccer awarded 'Man of the Match' to two-goal scoring Valour forward Austin Ricci. He is not the same player mentioned in the same sentence as current Canadian National team players Dayne St Clair (goalie) and Alastair Johnson (right back or midfielder) but they all played for League 1 Ontario powerhouse Vaughan Azzurri. Ricci played for York 9 FC (former name for York United FC) in 2019 so it must have been nice to burn his old team. There were fans allowed at this game to watch the hometown Valour FC which is the reason I'd suspect that this game was flipped to an 6:30pm start local time rather than the originally 9:30pm schedule which now was the Ottawa vs Edmonton game. Hey Monday is a work day! There were two reasons why both games were not mid-afternoon--the unusually hot weather has been pushing games later in the day for health reasons and today was Gold Cup match between the USA and Canada being broadcast in the late afternoon. I heard a mention that capacity was 2000 fans maximum because of the COVID restrictions but I could not tell from camera angles if there were anywhere near that many people. I got the first question in at the post game Zoom call press conference (the usual heavy hitters I'll assume were still writing up their national team game stories) and asked coach Jimmy Brennan if the turning point of the game was the missed Penalty kick. Yes! York was down 1-0 at the time of the call Valour's William Akio pushed over York's Jordan Wilson who was jumping for a cornerkick into the box just inside the 18 yard box. So unnecessary as Wilson was leaning away from goal and it would have been difficult for him to turn it towards goal. Osvaldo Ramirez (the only non-Canadian starter) stepped up to take the Penalty kick and sent it low to the left and goalie Jonathan Sirois dived correctly pushing it wide of the post. This must have been even more of a confidence booster to Valour as this goalie has not allowed a goal in (now) six games. York had five shots on target tonight but most were from outside the box. They only had one shot inside the box (whether on or off target) in the entire second half. Valour's star defender/captain Andrew Jean-Baptiste had to be subbed off at 13 minutes but the team rallied around him to form a ring around the goalie to keep the shots at a distance. He later returned to the sidelines limping on crutches and a huge ice pack on one knee but was still an inspiration. This was the third game in a row that York has not been able to score but some of their best offensive players have been required to prop up the back line. Today's starting eleven was the same lineup as their last game. Michael Petrasso has been one of those players but he was given the night off. Chrisnovic N'Sa got the start tonight in defence as usual but was subbed out at 77 minutes. He was the last 'ironman' on the team with full minutes the previous six games. I'm disappointed in the non-Canadians on the roster. They haven't been starters except Osvaldo Ramirez (the last two games) and usually don't appear until the last 20 minutes. I'd suspect that Brennan doesn't have confidence in them. There'd be a few who had even less of a pre-season than the Canadians because of visa issues and COVID protocal getting into Canada. These are our forwards so there's most of our scoring threats not even on the field. I'm looking at forwards Ramirez, Alvaro Rivero, Nicholas Hamilton, and Julian Ulbricht. There's also four others who never did arrive. The league has a contract with a scouting system company and they sure haven't helped fill the roster with scoring threats. One benefit has been that the young Canadian guys continue to pile up the minutes as starters. The team has compiled 2865 minutes in the seven games with U-21 players. The league minimum for the entire season is 1500 minutes. York has the worst 'goals against' total with 12 and 'plus/minus' of -6. York's final game in the Bubble is Saturday July 24th at 6:00pm local time against FC Edmonton who earned a tie against Atletico Ottawa a few hours after this game but climb to 7th with a record of 1 win, 2 ties, 3 losses for 5 points. They have played one less game than York but they will make that up with a game Wednesday night against HFX Wanderers who have the exact same record and that game will also be their catch up game. One result or another, York will find themselves knocked down to 7th out of 8 teams but more important, they will be able to rest and heal with six full days until their last game after nothing but weekend, midweek, weekend, repeat since this season began. I'd almost say the Saturday game is a most win, as Edmonton is the only 'Western' team in the bottom four. York the following week will come home to host Forge FC who are the only 'Eastern' team in the top four and are the two time CPL defending champion. The next week they are away in Halifax and the next weekend they return home to play....Forge FC again! Rocket Robin robing@eol.ca twitter @RocketRobin01Match stats supplied by CPL Match Stats: Valour FC York United FC Goals 3 0 Total Shots (including blocked shots) 8 17 Shots On Target 4 5 Shots Off Target 4 3 Blocked Shots 0 9 Shots from inside the box 8 6 Shots from outside the box 0 11 Headed Shots 1 2 Corners taken 5 5 Fouls Conceded 12 18 Open Play Crosses 2 17 Offsides 6 2 Duels Won 58 50 Duels Won (%) 53.7% 46.3% Total Passes 370 284 Passing Accuracy 83.5% 81.3% Possession 55.4% 44.6%back to 2021 York United FC menu
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