Asunto: u21 friendlies

well...a very close 4:3 victory against Guatemala.

they have a very promising team with some great 19 and 20 year old. Their tactic with a winger was clever, especially as the winger showed Nyathi seriously his limits...
the 3rd of their goals was a stupid drop of our keeper.
our mid's today played quite well offensively, but lack defensive skills, which mad the opponents MIDs walk through.
Johnson played quite well and Letsholonyane showed his potential sometimes.
Only Doxakis was a total fail today. his positioning in the tactic wa not good enough and in his shape he ha no chance.
fortunately we had our other 2 strong forwards...;-)

yeah they have a better team in this category than I expected, still we got deserved win

Letsholonyane and Doxakis are still young, their time will come next season..

their time will come next season..
no doubt about that! ;-))

well done. keep it up!

another pop in passing (1+9GT) and divine form :-)

Arthur Letsholonyane, Age:19
club: Hustlers, country: South Africa
Value: 206 750 $, Wage: 1 450 $
divine (17) Form, excellent (10) Tactical discipline
height: 181

adequate (6) stamina, tragic (0) keeper
very good (9) pace, solid (8) defender
excellent (10) technique, good (7) playmaker
solid (8) passing, good (7) striker

yeah! he earned his spot in the team tomorrow ;-))

I seem to have a good climate for south-african youngsters in my team, both new players with +1 in pace:

Louis Maselesele, Age:20
club: DoGlorios, country: South Africa
Value: 291 750 $, Wage: 2 525 $
superdivine Form, weak Tactical discipline
height: 181

formidable stamina, tragic keeper
excellent pace, formidable defender
adequate technique, solid playmaker
average passing, weak striker

and

Louis Gqosha, Age:19
club: DoGlorios, country: South Africa
Value: 144 500 $, Wage: 1 425 $
outstanding Form, unsatisfactory Tactical discipline
height: 173

weak stamina, tragic keeper
very good pace, very good defender
average technique, excellent playmaker
poor passing, hopeless striker

That is good. Keep it up guys. We have to keep the good young players coming through!

We'll do what we can, but without Marc's youth school it will go drastically down..

I hope you get some more talent's out of your school, Sokker South Africa depends now even more on you ;-)

Marcs Youngsters still like it at my place:

Maselesele +1 Passing
Gqosha +1 Passing

:-)

Gqosha is nice n.2 U19 mid behind Arthur :-)

Next game is a friendly with our u21 against the Swiss u20.

I'd like to try a tactic in preparation of next season.

the idea is to play with a wing-forward (Dixakis has the skills for it for next season, but he's in too weak form now). Serola will be with +1 only on friday, so I'd like to use him as wing forward.

the tactic looks like this:

and here's the planned lineup:

1. Jeffrey Tavlibudine GK
2. Louis Maselesele DEF
3. Sibusiso Fredericks DEF
4. Musawenkosi Ngwenya DEF
5. Lerato Morris DEF
6. Shaun Ramulondi MID
7. Ricky Winstanley MID
8. Marco Lingard MID
9. Arthur Serola ATT
10. Bheki Lingard ATT
11. Valentine Methula ATT

12. Jan Walker GK
13. Phillip Mxaka DEF
14. Andre Lutumba MID
15. Arthur Letsholonyane MID
16. Thabiso Ledwaba ATT

Set pieces
Free kick: Arthur Serola
Penalty kick: Arthur Serola

Conditional orders
1' red card or no player Sibusiso Fredericks on position 1
1' red card or no player Shaun Ramulondi on position 2
1' red card or no player Shaun Ramulondi on position 3
1' red card or no player Shaun Ramulondi on position 4
1' red card or no player Shaun Ramulondi on position 5
60' always Andre Lutumba on position 8
60' always Thabiso Ledwaba on position 10

I like the tactic, I have no remarks :-)

I would still use Lingard as sub, he loves the role:-) And is bit more speedy and technician than Ledwaba, so he can use that to his advantage against tired defense..

No Arthur this time :-(

you might be right abour Bheki, but Ledwaba hardly ever plays (and thus doesn't get any decent training) anymore and only has weak tactical discipline, he'd be offside all the time...

Sorry about Arthur this time, but he'll get plenty of playtime next season for sure!
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