Asunto: National Team

Masi, man of the match.

I thought the strikers were positioned fine, but maybe could've played Baveas a little further up the pitch to draw the defenders.

Good result for you guys, well done.

was a bit fortunate tbh. You played a lot better than I expected.

I think it could have gone either way. I was suprised to see the ball more in your half of the pitch when the stats came up. That game pretty much typified our whole campaign, we've lost 5 games in qualifying, we probably only deserved to lose 2 (The first Australia and Lietuva games). I expected better from Matthews, a rating of 65 in divine form and he still couldnt beat your reserve keeper.
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Yeah, although I'd argue you probably deserved to lose the 2nd against Lietuva as well despite playing exceptionally well.

Next campaign I'd be a bit surprised if Ireland weren't able to qualify as you've certainly matched everyone in our group this season, just haven't had results go your way.

Decided I'd do a little summary of the entire world cup qualifying season. Will gradually add a bit more to it over the next few hours. Let's start off with some basics first in regards to team performance.

Overall:

Wins : 7
Draws : 0
Losses : 3
Points : 21
Goals For : 32
Goals Against : 11
Goal Difference : 21

Against Opposition:

Ireland

Wins : 2
Draws : 0
Losses : 0
Points : 6
Goals For : 4
Goals Against : 1
Goal Difference : 3

Lietuva

Wins : 0
Draws : 0
Losses : 2
Points : 0
Goals For : 1
Goals Against : 7
Goals Difference : -6

Hellas

Wins : 2
Draws : 0
Losses : 0
Points : 6
Goals For : 7
Goals Against : 1
Goals Difference : 6

Malta

Wins : 2
Draws : 0
Losses : 0
Points : 6
Goals For : 18
Goals Against : 0
Goal Difference : 18

Norge

Wins : 1
Draws : 0
Losses : 1
Points : 3
Goals For : 2
Goals Against : 2
Goal Difference : 0

Best Skill Rating

Shooting : formidable vs Malta
Passing : very good vs Ireland
Defending : excellent vs Lietuva

Now for some individual things.

Qualifying Matches Played

Stan Amien : 10
Wesley Broxton : 10
Jeremy Timpano : 10
Vince Veart : 10
Stuart Widera : 10
Lucas Howarth : 9
Esala Hrehoresin : 9
Karl Pilic : 9
Brendan Ando : 7
Tony Nikas : 7
Noah Baveas : 6
Chris King : 6
Stephen North : 6
Wayne Augerinos : 5
Grant Zdrilic : 5
Jamie Garland : 4
Marco Croxall : 2
Brad Moon : 2
Darren D'Arcy : 1
Jamie Lawton : 1
Emil Masi : 1
Luke Nohra : 1
Sean Rex : 1

Goals Scored

Wayne Augerinos : 13
Esala Hrehoresin : 13
Stan Amien : 5
Noah Baveas : 1

Shots At Goal

Esala Hrehoresin : 54
Stan Amien : 31
Wayne Augerinos : 25
Marco Croxall : 4
Jeremy Timpano : 3
Noah Baveas : 2
Vince Veart : 2

Shooting Accuracy

Wayne Augerinos : 52%
Noah Baveas : 50%
Esala Hrehoresin : 24%
Stan Amien : 16%
Marco Croxall : 0%
Jeremy Timpano : 0%
Vince Veart : 0%

Assists

Stuart Widera : 4
Jeremy Timpano : 3
Stephen North : 2
Stan Amien : 1
Noah Baveas : 1
Grant Zdrilic : 1

Yellow Cards

Chris King : 2
Noah Baveas : 1
Brad Moon : 1
Karl Pilic : 1
Jeremy Timpano : 1
Vince Veart : 1
Stuart Widera : 1

Fouls Committed

Karl Pilic : 4
Vince Veart : 4
Stan Amien : 3
Noah Baveas : 3
Jeremy Timpano : 3
Stuart Widera : 3
Wesley Broxton : 2
Chris King : 2
Wayne Augerinos : 1
Jamie Garland : 1
Brad Moon : 1
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Malta and Norge have the same colour, tsk.

would u rather see them in white :p.

i wouldn't be able to see them if they were in white! :(

Well that's why I made them both red ;).

Anything else needed feel free to post here. Interesting that both times King fouled he got carded :p.
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should've made one of them pink as a combination of the two colours =]

I improvised by making Malta dark red :).
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bah >P dave

Nice win against Ireland

Thanks. We'll take it, but our first win against Ireland was better :).

Ok we're just about set for the Mexico match later this evening, going to be one massive challenge for us.

I seriously doubt they'll play the same tactic as last week and the week before so I'm not planning on attacking that and then finding I get caught out when they change tactics.

I'm expecting them to play a much different style game and at this stage it's hard to determine what they will play, but we'll see how what I've come up with plays out.