June 9, 2024 CPL York United FC vs Vancouver FC game report (by Rocket Robin)

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Result and details of the Sunday June 9, 2024 Canadian Premier League game between York United FC and Vancouver FC
played at York Lions Stadium in North York at 6:00pm ET.

York United FC (blue socks and shorts, green & blue checkered shirts, white names and numbers)

...............................1 Thomas Vincensini
16 Max Ferrari...23 Noah Abatneh...4 Oswaldo Leon (cpt)...5 Frank Sturing
15 Josue Martinez...8 Elijah Adekugbe...7 Juan Cordova...30 Kadin Martin-Pereux
...............17 Markiyan Voytsekhovskyy...24 Tomas Giraldo

Subs:...18 Eleias Himaras (gk)..13 Jason Hartill (mid)...19 Olusola Jimoh (fwd)...21 Christian Zeppieri (mid)
...32 Brem Soumaoro (def)...37 Trivine Esprit (mid)...62 Nyal Higgins (def)
team officials:...head coach Benjamin Mora...assistant coach Mauro Eustaquio...goalkeeper coach Camilo Benzi
physiotherapist Eric Yoo...doctor Jim Niu...kitman John Townsend...athletic trainer Furkan Demir

Vancouver FC (pink socks and shirts, white shorts, black names and numbers)

........................1 Callum Irving (cpt)
2 Kadin Chung...23 Paris Gee...4 Allan Enyou...25 James Cameron
21 Kembo Kibato..18 Moses Dyer...8 Renan Garcia...27 Grady McDonnell
..................10 Gabriel Bitar...9 Alejandro Diaz

Subs:...28 Niko Giantsopoulos (gk)...7 Ben Fisk (fwd)...13 David Norman (mid)...17 Zach Verhoven (def)
...29 Tommy Powell (mid)...44 Sebastian Dzikowski (fwd)
team officials: head coach Afshin Ghotbi...asisstant coach Cossa (Marco) and Dominic Rajna...goalkeeper coach Mark Village
...physiotherapist Inderpaul Khaira...team manager Jeevin Kang

Game officials:...referee Michael Venne...referee's assistants Bradley Doubrough and Jason Vaillancourt
...fourth official Scott Bowman...(all black uniforms)...referee asssessor Gord Arrowsmith

First Half:...game starts 6:06pm...York defends north end on this mild evening with a bright sun in the north west.
The 'Tiny Car' (radio controlled toy car) was driven to the center circle to drop off the game ball.
4 min...Van Cameron run on left and rolls centering pass along 10 yard line. York players have tough time clearing the ball
and Van Dyer can't draw a Penalty kick in 6 yard box on the right.
7 min...York Cordova cross from 30 yards from left is just over head of charging York Ferrari at 10 yards.
8 min...Van Cameron run down left and cross is into box cleared.
9 min...Van Kibato cornerkick from right has leaping Van Cameron on near post at 5 yards head ball wide left of post.
10 min...Van goalie beats York Voysekhovskyy to bouncer to grab ball at 15 yards on left.
12 min...York Adekugbe suffers head injury in crash with Van Garcia at Van 40 yard line. No trainer is needed.
16 min...Van Bitar 45 yard freekick from slight right has York Giraldo head ball away at 20 yards. The eventual rechip
is whistled down in box.
17 min...York Markiyan Boytsekhovskyy GOAL...York Kadin Martin-Pereux runs up left wing and low cross from 3 yard
line has Voytsekhovskyy on short post chip 7 yarder forward into top left corner away from goalie Callum Irving.
18 min...Van Bitar long run deking players up middle but finally checked at 15 yards.
20 min...Vancouver Alejandro Diaz GOAL...Van Gabriel Birar in middle after short run taps pass to Diaz who
shoots low 20 yarder between defenders that bounces into left side of net.
21 min...York Martin-Pereux cross from 15 yards on left has defender stop and clear.
22 min...York Ferrari pass is too far forward on right for York Voytsekhovskyy and goalie picks up ball.
25 min...Van Bitar run up left sideline keeping ball in and cuts to middle but is checked off ball in center without getting
away shot.
27 min...York Ferrari long cross from right along 18 yard line has Van Chung on left head ball away from box.
29 min...York defenders squeeze Van Diaz from getting control of long cross up right inside 18 yard box.
30 min...York Giraldo play is stopped for injury suffered at Van 35 yard line and needs trainer.
32 min...York sub...Zeppieri replaces injured Giraldo.
34 min...York goalie picks up loose ball at 10 yards knocked forward when Van players tried to break-in.
35 min...York Cordova chips from 60 yard line on right has charging York Martinez at 15 yards on left heads ball across box
but no one is there.
36 min...York Zeppieri gets break-away up right but slips on 2 on 1 break and is caught by retreating defender and Van Enyou
keeps ball in on end line and clears.
38 min...York Adekugbe suffers head injury that breaks up their rush at Van 40 yard line and needs trainer.
41 min...York Juan Cordova GOAL...York Josue Martinez cornerkick from left is upfield to York Markiyan Voytsekhovskyy
at 18 yard line and he sends low pass even further upfield to Cordova who blasts 28 yarder from left over crowd of players in box and into top left side of net with goalie on his line flying over from center of net.
43 min...Van Kibato cornerkick from right has goalie slap away ball on near post.
48 min...York goalie is out to 20 yards to clear away through ball bouncer.
49 min...half ends 6:55pm.

Halftime Entertainment: There are two mini-games with young players from Dixie Soccer Club. Both games are held in the north end and interfere with the Vancouver substitutes warming up until there are 5 minutes left. There is also soccer table tennis with a 2 on 2 game with adults right at the center line but it only takes a small amount of space. The York subs have the whole south half for themselves but they've already burned off a sub. Last was a t-shirt toss with two of the shirts containing a $50 gift certificate.

Second Half:...starts 7:11pm.
45 min...Van Dyer goes down injured at the York 40 yard line as play carries on.
47 min...York Abatneh makes key header to clear pass at York 15 yard line sent into box.
48 min...Van Bitar 30 yard freekick from left has York Cordova make big header in crowd of players in box to clear.
48 min...Van Abatneh is injured at Van 35 yard line.
49 min...York Martin-Pereux is injured stepping on ball and needs trainer. Hey that's four injured plaayers in the first five minutes
of this half.
51 min...York goalie catches 60 yard chip bouncer up middle into box.
52 min...Van Enyou heads back to goalie from 20 yards to prevent York Voytsekhovskyy getting to through ball.
53 min...Van sub...Verhoven replaces McDonnell.
54 min...York Martin-Pereux is checked off ball running into center along 22 yard line on 1 v 3 run.
54 min...York Martin-Pereux makes backheeler to York Voytsekhovskyy but is cut off by defender.
55 min...York YELLOW card...Voytsekhovskyy earns it for sliding tackle on Van Gee injurying him and he needs trainer.
58 min...York YELLOW card...Abatneh earns it for either taking too long for throw-in at Van 50 yard line or advancing
too far up the field before his attempted throw.
60 min...Van Cameron rush on left and pass to Van Diaz who passes to Van Verhoven who blasts 5 yarder on left at tough
angle well over net.
61 min...Van Bitar chips from 35 yards from right. Van Diaz is just behind ball and goalie catches.
61 min...Van Enyou heads back to goalie to prevent York Voytsekhovskyy getting to ball in middle at 18 yards.
63 min...York Martinez chips 35 yarder from slight right that defender in crowd of players heads away.
63 min...York Abatneh heads ball down and can't jab it with enough power to be a good shot.
64 min...York sub...Esprit replacing Voytsekhovskyy.
65 min...York YELLOW card...Ferrari earns it for trip at York 28 yard line.
66 min...Van Bitar 30 yard freekick from left has goalie behind crowd punch ball out of box.
67 min...Van YELLOW card...Gee earns it for preventing York Esprit from breakout at York 50 yard line.
68 min...York player crosses into box from right has defenders stop and clear.
70 min...York Martinez 33 yard freekick from right has defender sky clearance for cornerkick.
70 min...York Martinez cornerkick from right is cleared for York throw-in.
72 min...Van sub...Fisk replaces Bitar.
............Van sub...Powell replaces Kibato.
............Van sub...Dzikowski replaces Diaz.
72 min...Van Garcia 40 yard freekick from left has Van Dzikowski head 20 yarder on leap in crowd wide right of net on bounce.
73 min...York Martin-Pereux cross from left is over box and York Ferrari stops it and chips 15 yard bouncer wide left but goalie
catches it on bounce.
73 min...Van Powell 20 yard shot is blocked by wall of defenders.
74 min...York Leon clears low cross into box from right.
75 min...Van Fisk low cross along 3 yard line from 15 yards on right is knocked out by sliding York Martin-Pereux but ball hits
him on his upraised hand and so a Penalty kick is given by referee Michael Venne.
76 min...Van Moses Dyer GOAL...Dyer stutter steps on Penalty kick low to right corner of net. Goalie Thomas Vincensini
dives and gets a hand to it but ball deflects up and deflects off underside of crossbar and back down into right corner of net.
80 min...Van Fisk has shot blocked at 15 yards.
82 min...Van Fisk 35 yard freekick from left is sent into box and Van Dyer pops up 8 yard header in crowd of players and goalie catches.
82 min...York Ferrari 20 yard cross from right is caught by goalie.
83 min...Van YELLOW card...Dzikowski earns it for tackle on York Sturing at York 20 yard line.
84 min...York player cross from 20 yards on left is caught by goalie on left by stepping forward.
85 min...York Martin-Perreux heads away cross from left on right side of box.
86 min...York sub...Hartill replaces Martinez.
..........York sub...Jimoh replaces Zeppieri.
87 min...Van Dzikowski bashes through defenders and gets low 15 yard shot up middle wide left of net.
88 min...Van Cameron 30 yard cross from left is too far ahead of charging player.
90 min...Van Fisk cornerkick from right is low and hits shin of Van player on short side but York player clears from 8 yard line.
90 min...Van Fisk charges down right to receive long chip from near center line and eludes defender to get into box where he taps
pass back to Van Dzikowski who fouls York Abatneh to take shot.
92 min...York YELLOW card...Cordova earns it for dissent at center line.
92 min...Van Powell steals ball but has his progress stopped at York 15 yard line.
93 min...Van Fisk cross from right hits York Leon in chest and deflects for cornerkick. Leon is injured on play.
93 min...Van Fisk cornerkick from right has Van Cameron in crowd of players head ball to left where Van Diaz is knocked over
in crowd and play is whistled down from inside the 6 yard box.
94 min...York Ferrari can't win freekick on run up middle at Van 22 yard line when he's bumped off ball.
95 min...Van Chung makes key header to break up play of cross sent in by York Ferrari from right.
95 min...game ends 8:01pm.

Final Score:...York United.........2..........Vancouver FC..........2..........

Attendance was not announced again tonight. The league site put the crowd as 1167 which is about average but I'd say a disappointment for their first weekend early night game. The Canadian National Men's team had played a friendly away against France that ended less than an hour before this game started. Hey 0-0! There had been rain earlier in the day and overnight that may have stopped the walk-up crowd from coming out. Many in the crowd stayed after the game ended to play in a special parent-child game with so many on the field chasing the ball at the same time that the positioning was like a U-5s game.

This was the team's Pride Night which last year was a fiasco within the team as five players sat out that game for religious or morale reasons. This year I'd been assured that there would be no problems as the team was not wearing any special jerseys. My only problem with last year was I found it hard to read their numbers from a distance with the rainbow multi coloured numbers becing hard to decipher.

This was the first game for York's new head coach Benjamin Mora. He was only named coach on Tuesday and at that time he said he'd only been to one training session with the team up to then. It was hard to say the team has developed an entire new style in such a short time especially with all the players that were missing for tonight's game.

York were missing a alot of their stars. Forwards Mo Babouli is still injured, and we saw Brian Wright injured and had to be subbed out in their last home game. Midfielder Matthew Baldisimo is also still injured. Midfielder Dennis Salanovic had just returned last night from being away in Romania playing for his national team of Liechtenstein. Defender Orlando Botello is serving a Yellow card accumulation suspension. Forward Austin Ricci was missing for a family wedding in Italy!

Oswaldo Leon (a Mexican import) was given his first start of the season after now recovering from an injury and was chosen as captain for tonight. Tomas Giraldo who was 'loaned/traded' from HFX Wanderers for the remainder of the season was given his first start since coming here as a midfielder. 16 year old Jimoh Olusola signed on a special young player's contract just last week was on the bench and saw some action up front. Young Jason Hartill and Christian Zeppieri also got into the game. That certainly helps the team's U-21 minutes requirement. Vancouver leads this year's minutes so far.

I felt Kadin Marin-Pereux played well when he ran upfield. He was called for a hand ball though when he came back defensively and slid to clear a low cross into the box. He looked like a luger but his arm was definitely raised.

Vancouver's James Cameron was named to the Canada U-20 training camp which meets up in a few weeks. Good for him! I also noticed that Toronto FC II had four of their players named that I watch at York Lions Stadium usually on the opposite weeks of York United playing here. Defenders Adam Pearlman, Lazar Stefanovic, and Theo Rigopoulos, and midfielder Andrei Dimitru will be the players missing from TFC II.

York had beaten Vancouver here on April 26th 3-0 with all their goals coming after the 70 minute mark. Brian Wright with two goals and Dennis Salanovic with the other one in that game were sorely missed tonight. Vancouver are certainly better than last year's standings wise but have only won once on the road so far. Their next game is a neutral site game in Kelowna BC against Pacific FC. Vancouver is a lot closer to Kelowna than Victoria on Vancouver Island the home of Pacific.

For the first time this season, York plays the final game of the weekend so they knew what a difference a win/loss/tie meant to them. The tie improves their record to 3 wins, 4 losses, 2 ties for 11 points. This week's other results meant they've dropped down to sixth place because Cavalry earned only their second win this season but with only one loss and six ties, Cavalry moves up to the fifth and final playoff place.

Vancouver picking up a tie tonight moves their record to 4 wins, 3 losses, 2 ties for 14 points and they hang on to second place with four teams behind them all within 3 points. Yep if York could have held on to win, it would have meant four teams would be tied with 13 points. Atletico Ottawa avoids all that with 21 points and is still undefeated. That is where York will be next Saturday for an afternoon game against Ottawa. Their next game after that will be on Wednesday night the 19th against Pacific FC at 7:00pm with Toronto FC at home at the same time playing Nashville FC. So much for building up any attendance momentum with Sunday games.

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York United FC starters


Vancouver FC starters


Vancouver Alejandro Diaz (9) takes opening kickoff.


York Jesue Martinez (15) takes throw-in.


Vancouver Moses Dyer (18) breaks out.


York Kadin Martin-Pereux (30) runs along left edge of box.


York Markiyan Voytsekhovskyy (17) takes second half kickoff.


Vancouver Gabriel Bitar (10) takes freekick.


York Josue Martinez (15) freekick is sent into box.


Vancouver makes triple sub with Sebastian Dzikowki (44), Tommy Powell (29) and Ben Fisk (7) waiting to come on.


Vancouver Moses Dyer (18) scores on this Penalty kick as diving goalie Thomas Vincensini pushes ball into top right corner of net.


Vancouver back-up goalie Niko Giantsolpoulos talks to York's injured Brian Wright and newly signed
forward Olusola Jimoh (19) after the game. 

Game stats (from canpl.ca)
 
                      York United FC       Vancouver FC  
Possession                  49.3%                50.7%
Duels success rate          53.7%                46.3%
Aerial duels won            41.9%                58.1%
Interceptions                8                    8
Offsides                     2                    1
Corners won                  2                    4
Passes                     472                  479
Long passes                 74                   49
Passing accuracy            84.7%                79.7%
Passing acc in opp' half    67.8%                64.9%
Crosses                     13                   18
Crossing accuracy           15.4%                22.2%
Goals                        2                    2
Shots                        3                    9
Shots on target              2                    2
Blocked shots                0                    1
Shots outside the box        1                    2
Shots inside the box         2                    7  
Shooting accuracy           66.7%                22.2%
Tackles                     24                   14
Tackles success rate        62.5%                42.9%
Clearances                  30                   11
Fouls conceded              14                   17
Yellow cards                 4                    2
Red cards                    0                    0

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