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Asunto: National Team

2023-10-21 14:50:36
Pretty tight game against Ireland and we narrowly lost 1-0. VG came on and got sent off within a minute.
2023-10-22 11:31:39
That just sums up his last 2 seasons… talented player who is contributing little on the pitch
2023-10-25 16:43:25
So we are playing for 5-8th in the MWC after losing to Ireland. We now get to play Iceland who we beat in a friendly last season I believe.

In other news the Asian cup draw has been made and we have China,Kazakhstan and Singapore so top 2 progress and next best 2 3rd places (of 3 groups) also progress. Should be easy enough to progress out of and we have a good chance of progressing through as first in the group. China did get a draw against us last time in the Asian cup and also progressed further than we did after we went down to India. Hopefully no repeats on that one.
2023-10-28 09:30:56
2-1 loss to Iceland despite 12 shots to 9 in our favour and many other chances that we got last minute tackled. Just seem to end on these results more often then we benefit by it. Got a consolation goal in the end as well. Maybe one day the sokker gods will look kindly at us. Still with a number of our better players struggling for form it's a decent effort. Thought Ferguson and Bresciano impressed for their rare games. Disappointed in our strikers and Brooks in defense. Play one more game for 7th now I think before regrouping for the Asian cup. So many close losses again and it's painful for our ranking.

Throw in placement wasn't great today, gave them far too much space in midfield to do what they wanted to (which most times resulted in nothing but still took time away from us doing something instead).
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2023-11-04 08:45:36
Playing for 7th today against Denmark who I’m very surprised to see this far down the list given they get ratings of 75+. Probably our most difficult opponent since the USA in fairness. Final game of the MWC and our last hit out before focussing on the Asian cup where we’d have to be one of the favourites.

Really wish some of our spine players weren’t out of form for todays game (Trajcevski, Van Gisbergen, Whitley, Diggins, Georgio and Borg).
2023-11-04 09:29:43
I do like that 8 of the players used today, I had some role in producing. Either they came from my youth school, trained them or both :D

There were some familiar other names too when I was checking them out
2023-11-04 09:45:07
Delighted with the win in the end. Thought first half we were all over them and probably should have been further ahead. 2nd half they started to get on top and with a bit of luck they may have scored a few more. Still 13 shots to 5 our way so I’m glad a result went our way after last week especially. Crampton really cleaning up their defenders (guess if Traj can’t someone has to). Disappointed Parkinson botched the pen and the follow up and then another one on one in that first half. Luckily it didn’t end up hurting.

Should be good for rating and we move on to the Asian cup next week.
2023-11-04 14:07:05
Maska para cometer

Mini World Cup Results



Ireland


Eesti



Rossiya



4.Bosna and Hercegovina
5.Island
6.Ukraine
7.Australia
8.Danmark
9.Latvija
10.USA
11.Slovenija
12.India
13.Cymru
14.Nippon
15.Indonesia
16.Belarus

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Congratulations for your NT and thanks for participate in Mini World Cup.

Good luck in future :)
2023-11-05 02:23:51
cometer para Maska
Well that’s making me feel a bit of what if. Ireland who beat us 1-0 on a really close game ends up winning the final. Iceland who beat us by 1 goal last week when I thought the game was in more our favour wins the 5th place final. 1 goal losses just have a way of hurting in these types of scenarios (especially the 1 goal losses due to bad dice rolls).

Asian cup starts next week for those interested and think we might have China first up (I’ll recheck the draw)
2023-11-11 09:30:22
Well that wasn’t particularly fun today. The way the game played out probably fortunate to get a point but it continues to irritate me how strikers that aren’t in sd form are able to dribble through sd defenders in divine or better form at ease and our magical plus form strikers with probably as much tech can’t even break free when in behind. Happened all game which is how they continued to get chances. Was simply a case of breaking free of tackles and the ball going straight to where they needed it to and for us the rare time it happened the ball would bounce off away from all our players to their defender.

Reckon had that gone the other way in terms of the 50/50s we’d have doubled them in shots and gone on and won the game.

1-1 draw minimises the damage though thankfully.

Probably went a bit too defensive today too and may have been better sticking to a more aggressive one but thought we’d minimise their chances and attack them on the counter where we could get it in behind. Didn’t really happen anywhere near as often and the few times it did they were able to tackle us no issue from behind
2023-12-02 09:31:39
So Qtr Finals of the Asian Cup saw us take on UAE who only sit a few places behind us in the rankings. Pleased to say we took control of the match early and apart from a few moments never relinquished it. 7-1 is a comprehensive victory especially with Trajcevski out injured. So we progress to the semi finals against Indonesia who took out the #1 seed team in the Philappines. Difficult match ahead but if we progress through that we should have a really good chance of winning this tournament. The 7-1 win should net us some decent ranking points too.
2023-12-03 03:09:48
Nicely done! What do you think par is for the team at the moment? A semi appearance or a final?
2023-12-03 06:40:46
Prior to the tournament I’d have said semi as were the third ranked seed at the start. Think I’d still say that given we ended up in a bracket containing the #1 and #2 seeds.

Will be disappointed to go out in the semis because I think the final should be easier for us. The other semi is between China and Kazakhstan who finished 2nd and 3rd in our group. Draw hasn’t been kind for the top seeds of this tournament.
2023-12-09 03:50:31
Big game later today/tonight. As usual for any big games we have we're always key players down. Trajcevski continues to take his sweet time recovering from an injury where I think he only improved 4-5 days in a week which definitely seems him out of today's match and risks next week as well.

Few other defenders worryingly out of form too. Not what we need going into a semi final with a side that seems to have great attackers.

Otherwise we're looking reasonably healthy across the board.
2023-12-09 09:36:25
That wasn't what I wanted the result to be. One of those days the match engine decided to say you're not getting squat from us. I probably played the winger on the wrong side looking at ratings in the end but even so it's nice when every 50/50 tackle goes the way of 1 team. Even their DM's/CM's whatever you want to call them were quite happy to break free of Collina whenever they felt like it.

Almost all of Indonesia's chances with exception of the early through ball in the first half came as a result of breaking tackles and us not being able to do the same.

Probably had my striker positioning not quite right either given Indonesia's depth but I was wary of their sneaky press at times too. It's really weird when players don't position themselves where you "thought" you placed them as well. Often our defensive line wasn't where it should have been (especially the outside defender) who was meant to mark their striker/winger the whole time. Our strikers didn't always move where I wanted them too either. Wondering if the game was played too much down a single square and hence players didn't move.

End of the day though we didn't create enough chances as we just couldn't break their defense down and that always leaves you open to counter punches. Based on how it played out thought the result was the right way but I still dislike how every 50/50 went against us today including the cards.

Will regroup and try and see if we can get 3rd place next week. Disappointing as I feel had we got past this game we'd have been favourites to win next week.
2023-12-09 10:51:40
So I know now why the strikers depth was out but it does raise more questions that will require a little more investigation (not tonight). Still no explanation why our outside defender got dragged in (only assume it's the tactical discipline aspect that make defenders mark up on the nearest striker even when you don't want them to and that burnt us a few times).