Halifax Tides FC had one extra shot on target, which was enough to top visiting Calgary Wild FC 1-0 in a spirited affair on a hot and humid Monday night at Wanderers Grounds stadium. Read More
The first match following a two-week combined with a banged-up Calgary roster made it difficult for the Wild Roses to mount an offensive attack.
The first match following a two-week combined with a banged-up Calgary roster made it difficult for the Wild Roses to mount an offensive attack.
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Halifax Tides FC had one extra shot on target, which was enough to top visiting Calgary Wild FC 1-0 in a spirited affair on a hot and humid Monday night at Wanderers Grounds stadium.
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Halifax’s ace midfielder, Megumi Nakamura, chipped one past Wild FC goalkeeper Stephanie Bukovec at the 36-minute mark of the opening half and the Tides held on for their second Northern Super League victory of the season.
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“It was a hard one for us tonight. I think overall the team played with great spirit, and togetherness,” said Wild FC head coach Lydia Bedford. “It could have quite easily finished as a nil-nil draw, but we were quite unfortunate to concede on the second phase of a set piece which we will go away and reflect on.”
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The first match following a two-week international break combined with a banged-up Calgary roster made it difficult for the Wild Roses to mount an offensive attack.
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“Right now, we are riding a little patch where player availability is a struggle for us. You saw tonight that we had five on the bench and four of them were senior players,” said Bedford. “We are trying to make sure the players who are unavailable are getting back to fitness, but in the meantime, we have to stick together and be competitive. Overall, the team can be pleased that we didn’t concede an open play goal, but we need more to try and make sure that we can not only be defensively sound but that we can also catch teams.”
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Using nearly every player available to them in hopes of having fresh legs on the pitch, Wild FC controlled possession for 54 per cent of the time, but most of it was at the back end.
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“I feel like we look after the ball at the back end, but it is just that final pass and final shot that we seem to be lacking on,” said Bedford. “We will keep working on it and the players will keep giving everything. Hopefully it will click for us over the next couple of weeks.”
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Playing in front of their parents and grandparents who call Nova Scotia home, the feisty teenage Stewart twins were poised to find a breakthrough moment in front of the boisterous Bluenose crowd.
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“I think we stuck together well as a team and kept trying to fight through it tonight,” said Taegan Stewart, who started the match. “We had one or two chances that we could have put in the back of the net, but I think we were just one second slow in the movement.”
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