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yeah both dave and I have been up here in qld for the weekend. We will be coming back on wednesday night. Dave has said he will look for an internet cafe tomorrow or so
Things didn't work out as initially planned. Wasn't what I had intended but set it as a default in case I wasn't able to generate the time to work on it. Turned out I ran out of time before having to go up to QLD so we used that one instead.
Sorry for that, the late accept wasn't helpful either but thats the breaks.
Will be back on Wednesday evening, so will work on picking up where I had left off and defeating Belarus.
Still surprised, (haven't watched it) they generated so many chances and put 4 past us, thought our defense was pretty solid, I'm guessing they used the wing a lot.
Sorry for that, the late accept wasn't helpful either but thats the breaks.
Will be back on Wednesday evening, so will work on picking up where I had left off and defeating Belarus.
Still surprised, (haven't watched it) they generated so many chances and put 4 past us, thought our defense was pretty solid, I'm guessing they used the wing a lot.
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1st XI game today, finishing the final touches now.
We're set for the match today. Have dropped a few players due to form and I'm sure they'll be back in the future.
We take on Belarus today who are ahead of us on the ranking system. I would still think we're stronger then them despite being under them on the ranking but we'll have to wait and see. This game should be about regaining those 50 odd ranking points we lost last week which was really painful. A solid performance by us today can rectify that loss and I intend to bounce back strongly after a disappointing effort last weekend. Won't be online to watch the match live I don't think since I'll be at a super 14 match but I'll be back shortly afterwards to post up my review of the match.
Last week the problem came down to leaving the Turkish winger alone and missing some valuable one on one chances. Certainly that was a wake up call to take the lighter teams a lot more seriously and had I had the time to notice their winger was dangerous I would probably have tried something different. Either way it's in the past now and I'll just try to make sure similar things don't happen again.
Belarus have had some pretty decent performances against South Africa and Uruguay over the past fortnight but aside from that the other games they have won have been against much weaker teams. They appear to have a really top notch goalkeeper and that could be a worry considering our goal percentage is quite poor and frustrating to watch.
They also have some reasonable strikers from observing their matches and this is something our defenders will need to be able to be careful of.
Belarus didn't manage to qualify for the world cup, they were in a similar position to us, finishing 3rd in their group but weren't able to be one of the top 6 3rd placed teams, so they've come a long way considering how short a time they've been around for. I've seen them under past managers take on NZ and challenge them so they'll certainly be no pushover.
I think we've got a strong chance of taking the game to them and coming away with a win. I'm hoping for a 3 goal win but it wouldn't surprise me if it was a lot closer then that. A lot depends on shooting accuracy and the number of chances we get relative to the chances they get.
Haven't organized a friendly for next week yet but I'll get around to doing that, shouldn't be too hard to find a friendly, even if the U21 WC is commencing.
We take on Belarus today who are ahead of us on the ranking system. I would still think we're stronger then them despite being under them on the ranking but we'll have to wait and see. This game should be about regaining those 50 odd ranking points we lost last week which was really painful. A solid performance by us today can rectify that loss and I intend to bounce back strongly after a disappointing effort last weekend. Won't be online to watch the match live I don't think since I'll be at a super 14 match but I'll be back shortly afterwards to post up my review of the match.
Last week the problem came down to leaving the Turkish winger alone and missing some valuable one on one chances. Certainly that was a wake up call to take the lighter teams a lot more seriously and had I had the time to notice their winger was dangerous I would probably have tried something different. Either way it's in the past now and I'll just try to make sure similar things don't happen again.
Belarus have had some pretty decent performances against South Africa and Uruguay over the past fortnight but aside from that the other games they have won have been against much weaker teams. They appear to have a really top notch goalkeeper and that could be a worry considering our goal percentage is quite poor and frustrating to watch.
They also have some reasonable strikers from observing their matches and this is something our defenders will need to be able to be careful of.
Belarus didn't manage to qualify for the world cup, they were in a similar position to us, finishing 3rd in their group but weren't able to be one of the top 6 3rd placed teams, so they've come a long way considering how short a time they've been around for. I've seen them under past managers take on NZ and challenge them so they'll certainly be no pushover.
I think we've got a strong chance of taking the game to them and coming away with a win. I'm hoping for a 3 goal win but it wouldn't surprise me if it was a lot closer then that. A lot depends on shooting accuracy and the number of chances we get relative to the chances they get.
Haven't organized a friendly for next week yet but I'll get around to doing that, shouldn't be too hard to find a friendly, even if the U21 WC is commencing.
Is it only or all Aussie players are running very slow today??
Beauty from Hirons!
Nice game but I didn't like one thing cometer - when the winger has the ball, don't move other mids near or to the penalty area...you've seen that today Andy played to Timpano/Beauchamp instead of the strikers..
Nice game but I didn't like one thing cometer - when the winger has the ball, don't move other mids near or to the penalty area...you've seen that today Andy played to Timpano/Beauchamp instead of the strikers..
im surprised that byers didnt butcher the penalty :P
Byers doesn't butcher penalties, only closer ones.
I noticed they were a lot slower today too.
I noticed they were a lot slower today too.
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Yeah I know where you're coming from but it's actually for corners more so then coming down the flank. Gives me an overpass from Willis from a corner to still find the head of a midfielder. I can live with that, besides which Timpano isn't too much of a slouch at goals either.
I was going to say, how fast were their strikers cause our defenders are no slow coaches and yet it looked so sluggish from our defenders whenever they broke the line. Also Storey looked slow when he had the ball and he most certainly wasn't chosen to be slow :s.
Tactic worked well. Knew they went in with that formation so tried to stretch their defense by having Willis on the wing and a decent enough striker wider so we could pass up and get in behind the defense for a shot at goal. Similarly noticed their defense creeps back a lot so brought the strikers up to the edge of the box to get in some cheap shots, just it seemed to always end up with timpano instead of byers or hirons/storey.
We killed the game but were perhaps a little unlucky not to get a few more chances to find the back of the net.
I was going to say, how fast were their strikers cause our defenders are no slow coaches and yet it looked so sluggish from our defenders whenever they broke the line. Also Storey looked slow when he had the ball and he most certainly wasn't chosen to be slow :s.
Tactic worked well. Knew they went in with that formation so tried to stretch their defense by having Willis on the wing and a decent enough striker wider so we could pass up and get in behind the defense for a shot at goal. Similarly noticed their defense creeps back a lot so brought the strikers up to the edge of the box to get in some cheap shots, just it seemed to always end up with timpano instead of byers or hirons/storey.
We killed the game but were perhaps a little unlucky not to get a few more chances to find the back of the net.
Timpano > Beauchamp.
I liked the positioning of the far (from Willis) striker. Storey just looked like he had an off day to me, that said he did draw the penalty and started to create some other chances, but his last touch tended to let him down.
Whilst Kilkelly hardly missed a tackle all game I thought he kicked it out straight out an awful lot. That sort of thing can cost you if they get lucky with their throw-in positions.
It was a nice shot from Hirons though wasn't it :)
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I liked the positioning of the far (from Willis) striker. Storey just looked like he had an off day to me, that said he did draw the penalty and started to create some other chances, but his last touch tended to let him down.
Whilst Kilkelly hardly missed a tackle all game I thought he kicked it out straight out an awful lot. That sort of thing can cost you if they get lucky with their throw-in positions.
It was a nice shot from Hirons though wasn't it :)
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