Asunto: National Team

Unfortunately, we lost an important player for the match on Saturday. Christian Renaud will miss the match due to injury.

That's ok, you get Schofield back :)

As they say sharing is caring :p. Joke aside it’s great we have depth to cover the occasional injury.

As long as there is no delay. In general, with a day of injury it is not a problem to play, but still...

When I first saw the tactic at the start of the match I thought we were going to get flogged. The 2nd half played out way differently than I was expecting.

Very good effort in the end. On another day could have got all 3 points. I still question the aggressive press. Cost us all the goals they ended up scoring but perhaps that also allowed us to create chances at the other end.

I think most if not all of us would have settled with a 3-2 before the game. After the game it feels a little bittersweet given the amount of shots we had that we could have scored more. On the whole that’s a very good effort given the strength difference in teams.

I am very angry about this match. The first tactic did not work as I wanted. At half-time, things improved. I'm very angry... We deserved a draw at least, but I will try to take revenge from France. I'm sure the press was the right tactic. If we go back, their attackers will put more pressure on us. They play very high and will cause us a lot of problems. But we will see for the second match if we will not surprise them.

What a shame you didn't get a point there, thoroughly deserved it.
You just dominated a top tier team and deserved the win
Shame the result didn't go as it should have but great effort

For what it’s worth I’m not sure that’s a terribly unfair result. That first half by itself we could have been out of the game. Second half was much better. I think the shot count and possession kind of show that a 1 goal either way was reasonable. Unfortunate it went the other way but I wouldn’t say we dominated.

I still can't recover. It is very difficult for me to accept losses. But I will look for revenge from France. They have weak points. I hope luck is with us next time.
Now we will try to play another good match against Bulgaria. It is strange for me to play against my homeland. But we will throw ourselves 100%. I hope we will come out with honor and stay in the game until the end.

I understand. First rule of any game is you have to be prepared to accept losses. Don’t have to like it but you have to acknowledge it will happen.

3-2 loss against France is commendable even forgetting it could have been better.

Were you aware Mitchell was SI when you subbed him on for Crampton? Would Boyd have been the better option?

I knew. I chose it because of the 18th level shape. With one or two days of injury, the players play very well. With more than 2 days, their effectiveness has already decreased. There was a variant to be Boyd. I thought about it to the last. Perhaps the most correct thing was to play without substitutions...

This match recalled last WCQ bouts with Nederland :) hope that n xt game will ends with 3 points :)

Burke should be back for next weeks match and thankfully, he has maintained his form during his injury.

Great performance against France. So unlucky

Let's wish each other luck! We are up against a very strong team. Because I know the players of Bulgaria I will say that this is a team with one of the strongest offenses in soccer. We are lucky that top striker is suspended for this game. Let's hope we can put up a decent fight.

Unfortunately, we didn't have the required success rate here. The bad thing is that against a high press we need another striker who can break. Many times the strikers broke away but were caught up. We conceded a lot of easy goals. From now on we will try to beat Jamaica twice first and then we will see what chances we have against Bulgaria and France.