Inter 1-0 Coastal
Absolutely gutted from this one. Our pre-game chat was essentially that we know we are better then this team but they find ways to win. Don’t get into the after whistle bullshit or do anything to give the ref an opportunity to influence the match.
I felt from the opening whistle we were the better team, moving the ball around dictating play. If anything they seemed frustrated at their inability to hold possession. About 30min in we had a great long range effort that Fink was just able to tip over the bar. Soon after we rattled a free kick off the bar and down onto the goal line. Then in about the 40th minute a ball was played over the top, their keeper came out and grabbed it knee up as our winger came barreling in. I honestly didn’t have the angle but apparently our winger left his leg in(studs showing), fink admitted he leaned in to make sure there was contact. Red card and an uphill battle. Hard to take as Isaac doesn’t even take yellow cards let alone red ones. Tempers flared the next 5 min and lucky halftime came before things boiled over.
Second half inter had some deep possession as we had to drop a bit being a man down.
They still struggled to break our lines and honestly weren’t creating anything. We were still able to move the ball around and even with 10 I felt we could win. Maybe 30min into the half a ball was played out wide, their winger clearly made the touch with his right biceps and cut in on a tight angle. His hard shot was parried right into the middle and was tapped in from 2 yards out. We pushed late but were running out of legs and struggled to create quality chances.
Losing a man was tough but losing Isaac who is such an important player for us was even tougher. He’s honestly unmarkable at times and creates a majority of our goals for Jake and others. As a teammate the last thing I am is upset at him but gutted for him as sitting there watching your team battle a man down isn’t easy and without him we wouldn’t be here.
Hard to take as I know we play that game 10 times and we win it 9 of them but that’s football. They were missing a few players but honesty we’ve played better teams in the valley. Inter find ways to win, they are winners and I give them all the credit for that.
Look forward to reading Canucks report as being in the game is much different then watching. Sometimes emotions cloud reality.
Sorry to be the one to bring it up again lads but I've been hearing that there may be more protests regarding ITC forms from the 2nd round. I've got no proof but was hoping someone else may know if these rumours are true..
Cancel the competition if true obviously BC Soccer ain’t doing it’s job to catch this at the beginning of the year while players are being signed. Also cancel this ITC stuff for Amature level sports it’s a waist of time. Rinos case is much different as there is allot more
Issues associated with them.
Cancel the competition if true obviously BC Soccer ain’t doing it’s job to catch this at the beginning of the year while players are being signed. Also cancel this ITC stuff for Amature level sports it’s a waist of time. Rinos case is much different as there is allot more
Issues associated with them.