Valenciennes

[Toadhall Saint]

Bon chance! Alezz VA

[Oh no Mick Mills]

Hi Chrisophe,

Is Derrick Abu featuring in your first team ? 

If so , is he performing well? 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

VA not doing much on a patchy pitch. Finally a ball that cuts through the home defence. Great for an early left foot strike. But a touch is taken and the 'keeper blocks it for a corner.

A corner from which the home side get a break from, and get a second goal. Very nice shot, but so frustrating to concede from your own set piece.

VA give another chance, but limp into half time 2 down. Not looking good.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

VA got one back, with easily their best move, on around 84 mins. Our Rento had a nice bit of skill in their box, but with a tame shot in added time.

Prior to that, SB cleared off their line on around 64 mins. 10 mins later there was a close range VA header straight at their keeper. That was followed a couple of minutes later by a looping header the SB keeper had to put over. A much better header than the poor cross that led to it.

But don't think VA were all over SB. The home side had got their goals. VA huffed and puffed with few outcomes to get back into the game. Following their goal, I thought VA were going to spend the rest of the game trying to get away from taking throw ins on the far side. They just look far too slow.

They look miles away from a higher level side with better intensity and desire than their opponents. It's not as if opponents are snatching points away. VA haven't done enough to earn them.

[ChristopheVAFC]

3 hours ago, Oh no Mick Mills said:

Hi Chrisophe,

Is Derrick Abu featuring in your first team ? 

If so , is he performing well? 

Dierrick played his first minutes with Valenciennes tonight. He was in the starting line-up and played 58 minutes out of 90.

 

I thought he was interesting, but it was a difficult match tonight for almost all the players.