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Asunto: [U21]LaBamba
Fabian Olivier will be on TL, he should have a DL this Sunday or Monday around 20.00 sokker time, so you should try to buy him for pace training..
Cole is also for sale, but owner wants 20 M PLN (5M EUR), so if you want to make a deal, but it's a lot..
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Cole is also for sale, but owner wants 20 M PLN (5M EUR), so if you want to make a deal, but it's a lot..
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Review vs Kypros:
Probably deserved draw..I wouldn't say that after the first half where we were dominating and wasting chances as usual, especially in the very beginning, there was of course the necessary crossbars (I don't think we played a match yet without somebody hiting the post, this time Ledwaba was the expert with 2 crossbars) and Kypros scored from their first dangerous moment and first shot at the goal. But in the second half we were clearly loosing stamina and our MIDs could barely walk and Kypros took over the game a bit despite the red card. They missed 2 penalties and although I think that might be their only chances in the match except the goal, I think it was an even match at the end and solid result with yet another stronger sokker nation.
I should have kept the first tactic with 5 defenders, which surprised our opponent and made it tough for their winger.. at least it worked for a half..
Also first (lucky) goal for Serola in his long U21 career:-)
Kudos to both of us for selecting such equal squads, which was our goal, both team's marks were almost identical :-)
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Probably deserved draw..I wouldn't say that after the first half where we were dominating and wasting chances as usual, especially in the very beginning, there was of course the necessary crossbars (I don't think we played a match yet without somebody hiting the post, this time Ledwaba was the expert with 2 crossbars) and Kypros scored from their first dangerous moment and first shot at the goal. But in the second half we were clearly loosing stamina and our MIDs could barely walk and Kypros took over the game a bit despite the red card. They missed 2 penalties and although I think that might be their only chances in the match except the goal, I think it was an even match at the end and solid result with yet another stronger sokker nation.
I should have kept the first tactic with 5 defenders, which surprised our opponent and made it tough for their winger.. at least it worked for a half..
Also first (lucky) goal for Serola in his long U21 career:-)
Kudos to both of us for selecting such equal squads, which was our goal, both team's marks were almost identical :-)
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LaBamba
Agreed, great first half, not so good second half. In the end, I think we were lucky because their striker got sent off only seconds after he scored and perhaps would have taken the two penalties they missed after that. Still, another decent result. Well done.
Yes we were lucky with the penalties, but we had 2 chances where Masenia and Ledwaba were all alone against the goalkeeper in even better position than penalty, plus we hit 2 crossbars. It could have ended 3:0 for both sides..
Considering penalties, I know some managers who are sending MIDs and even goalkeepers for penalties with more succes than strikers :-) So it might be a lot of random in it, or perhaps some hidden attribute or smth..:-)
I think the biggest problem clearly was the stamina issue, Kalaka and Hendricks have very low and Molefe was slightly injured and you could see him limping in the 2nd half..:-)
Considering penalties, I know some managers who are sending MIDs and even goalkeepers for penalties with more succes than strikers :-) So it might be a lot of random in it, or perhaps some hidden attribute or smth..:-)
I think the biggest problem clearly was the stamina issue, Kalaka and Hendricks have very low and Molefe was slightly injured and you could see him limping in the 2nd half..:-)
We moved up to n. 66 in the world rankings, we should move even higher with our easier upcoming schedule against African teams. We have the best team in Africa now:-)
I think we were always n.1, but now we are easilly the best :-)
Review vs al-Jazā’ir
That was terrible to watch, ugly match thanks to the deep offside system of our opponent, but also some stupid plays from our players. This was not a good performance. Hendricks was horrible he played like he had 0 PM, i don't think he decided to make a single pass in the 1st half. Methula was even worse. The offside system destroyed the game but as usual against inferior team brought us lot of scoring chances, that our strikers wasted as usual.
Our 18 and 19 year old sub strikers saved us in the 2nd half with 4 goals. The first one was funny, lucky slow strike from 20 meters after the goalkeeper previously saved all our 100% chances.
Still 4:0 is nice result and we should get more of them in next matches..With our easier schedule I'll probably be giving more and more opportunities to U20 squad to get them more training and experience for next season..
That was terrible to watch, ugly match thanks to the deep offside system of our opponent, but also some stupid plays from our players. This was not a good performance. Hendricks was horrible he played like he had 0 PM, i don't think he decided to make a single pass in the 1st half. Methula was even worse. The offside system destroyed the game but as usual against inferior team brought us lot of scoring chances, that our strikers wasted as usual.
Our 18 and 19 year old sub strikers saved us in the 2nd half with 4 goals. The first one was funny, lucky slow strike from 20 meters after the goalkeeper previously saved all our 100% chances.
Still 4:0 is nice result and we should get more of them in next matches..With our easier schedule I'll probably be giving more and more opportunities to U20 squad to get them more training and experience for next season..
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LaBamba
Ludick's accuracy is amazing. He hit the crossbar again. ;)
Review vs Misr (Egypt)
There is definitely something wrong with Ludick. You can almost see him aiming at the crossbar before he released the shot:-)
Anyway easy victory as expected, Methula had 4 assist today! Not much to write about here, we were simply better, Egypt didn't have single shot on goal. Cameroun should be more challenging in next match.
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There is definitely something wrong with Ludick. You can almost see him aiming at the crossbar before he released the shot:-)
Anyway easy victory as expected, Methula had 4 assist today! Not much to write about here, we were simply better, Egypt didn't have single shot on goal. Cameroun should be more challenging in next match.
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Review vs Cameroun
Well that was bad..our opponent switched the tactic against us and that took us out of the game, 5 defenders eliminated Methula (who screwed up every opportunity anyway by dribbling out of the field on most of his drives) and he also pulled the defenders closer to the penalty area so our strikers were facing them from the front. Defensively we didnt make any mistakes, except the bad back pass from Theunissen at the end that almost caused us the match. Shame for that solo by Masenia in 84th minute he was face to face with the GK but failed. Unlike other matches, we didnt have many chances and we were harmless offensively.
Pretty dissapointing result and performance, I expected much more, but the tactic was not good for this match this time..
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Well that was bad..our opponent switched the tactic against us and that took us out of the game, 5 defenders eliminated Methula (who screwed up every opportunity anyway by dribbling out of the field on most of his drives) and he also pulled the defenders closer to the penalty area so our strikers were facing them from the front. Defensively we didnt make any mistakes, except the bad back pass from Theunissen at the end that almost caused us the match. Shame for that solo by Masenia in 84th minute he was face to face with the GK but failed. Unlike other matches, we didnt have many chances and we were harmless offensively.
Pretty dissapointing result and performance, I expected much more, but the tactic was not good for this match this time..
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MherShevchenko, coach of Ghana didn't respect our agreement for friendly, as he supposedly forgot, so instead of redemption against Ghana we'll face much stronger Hong Kong team. I'll see if I can talk their coach into some U20 squads:-)