Historical Spring Season has concluded today on Canada day!!! Valour lose to York9 3-1 FC Edmonton wins 2-0 against HFX Wanderers Pacific wins 3-1 against Cavalry And it's a wrap! Cavalry are your spring winners and qualifies for the CPL Championship.
A fun start to the league. Overall, we have one team clearly in first, one other team that gave them a run, and a whole group basically tied for third. That's not bad for maintaining interest going forward. The biggest thing is just that the league is off the ground and playing watchable soccer. Now it can work on improving and fixing the issues that do confront it.
Level of play has been pretty good, but lacking in highlight reels, I thought it might be better, they started off alright but the mid season has improved, but how much, can't wait for the 1st USL/MLS clashes just around the corner to see how they stack up. Very looking forward to Forge's CONCACAF League matches too, they are a good team so hope they do well for the league. 2 team league so far and Cavalry have the altitude advantage it appears, Forge are quite good too but have dropped a bit, for the next part of the season Edmonton, Pacific (if they can get healthier) York 9 (if they can turn draws into wins) and HFX look like they might challenge, Valour though have been quite poor, not sure why, they were thought to be quite good going in. Not sure why they decided to go with a 10 match part to the season either, it's too short, should have played more, cause the next part of the season is like 3 times as long. Can't remember if they are doing some aggregate thing either.
Our #CCL! Spring Best XI is now up! What do you think? Tell us why we're right (or, more likely, wrong) #CanPL 📝: https://t.co/WOZT0DegVi pic.twitter.com/LxYM1Uwpso— Armen Bedakian (@ArmenBedakian) July 3, 2019
How surprising was Cavalry for everyone. Do you think they have an altitude advantage? Edmonton also have altitude, but it hasn't helped them much so far.
Edmonton is only a couple hundred metres above Winnipeg. Calgary is only 1000 metres above sea level, about 200 lower than Salt Lake City and 600 lower than Denver. I don't think it has that much of an effect.
Ahead of a big evening for Canadian soccer, I looked at some numbers for one of the @CPLsoccer's most important rules: 3 Canadian U21 players must accumulate 1000 total minutes this season. After the spring season, here's the current totals: (@Pacificfccpl. Wow.) #CanPL pic.twitter.com/txNtIXXOhC— Joshua Kloke (@joshuakloke) July 10, 2019