Asunto: u21 friendlies

Very nice!

I just compared him with Matsau who has a similar value. Looks good. :)

Zane Matsau, age: 21

club: Durban Pace Academy, country: South Africa,
value: 6 536 000 R, wage: 51 000 R,
magical [15] form, brilliant [14] tactical discipline,
height: 178 cm, ·weight: 71.6664 kg
bookings:
NTDB:
formidable [11] stamina tragic [0] keeper
brilliant [14] pace adequate [6] defender
very good [9] technique outstanding [12] playmaker
brilliant [14] passing poor [3] striker

Molefe: 14-13-12-12-10 with 12 form
Matsau: 14-14-12-9 with 15 form

They are indeed exceptional MIDs for South Africa..they would even play for much stronger countries..I think they would both have a spot in Czech team :-)

Wow, two great upcoming stars indeed!

And Matsau just had rpp in technique and passing :-)

Another monster :

Arthur Serola, age: 19

club: FC HyMyMyMy, country: South Africa,
value: 15 322 539 Kč, wage: 81 751 Kč,
brilliant form, excellent tactical discipline,
height: 187 cm, ·weight: 76.1011 kg , BMI: 21.76

Last update: 2012-08-31
good Stamina hopeless Keeper
formidable Pace hopeless Defender
magical Technique solid Playmaker
adequate Passing very good Striker

Only 19 years old. Great. :)

After the tough WCQ campaign we are facing 3 easier opponents in the friendlies at the end of the season, so hopefully we will finish it with 3 wins. Against Egypt we will again play with 3 strikers, I have to work on this tactic (even though i played it for like 20 seasons in the club, so I should have some experience with it:-) because we will have to play it constantly for at least 2 upcoming seasons, due to our deep and strong attack and relative weakness on other posts.
I will give a NT debut for 15 minutes to Chelin, he is 20, has divine form and will be part of our striker rotation next season. Ludick and Lehoko will be the other substitutes. Kalaka will play with MID order on the wingback due to his training.

Squad
1 Fabien Lechesa GK
2 Paul Kalaka MID
3 Fabian Olivier DEF
4 Dominic Cole DEF
5 Austin Sibaya DEF
6 Jimmy Molefe MID
7 Petrus Hendricks MID
8 Zane Matsau MID
9 Thabiso Ledwaba ATT
10 Granwald Masenia ATT
11 Arthur Serola ATT

12 Jeffrey Tavlibudine GK
13 Ryan Lehoko MID
14 Nasief Chelin ATT
15 Bonang Ludick ATT
16 Shaun Sekano DEF
Set pieces
Free kick: not specified
Penalty kick: Arthur Serola
Conditional orders
Min. Condition / Action
1' red card or no player
Granwald Masenia on position 1
1' red card or no player
Jimmy Molefe on position 2
1' red card or no player
Jimmy Molefe on position 3
1' red card or no player
Jimmy Molefe on position 4
1' red card or no player
Jimmy Molefe on position 5
70' always
Ryan Lehoko on position 7
70' always
Bonang Ludick on position 9
75' always
Nasief Chelin on position 10
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So another South-North African derby, this time against Marocco and this time already with our new generation.
We will introduce 3 first timers Ngwenya, Bheki Lingard and Burton Felix. Fredericks, Mabedi and Marco Lingard all have 1 starts so far. We only have 5x21 year olds in the starting line up and especially our defense is very young and weak, our best defender is Ngwenya (formidable) who is 19y, the rest is only VG and 2x excellent..Our MIDs are pretty average too..
Anyway our strikers are getting stronger with every match and especially Serola who still will be only 20 years should give our opponents lots of trouble. Out of necessity we will have to play 433 most of the time and that is also how we are gonna start the new season..

This is our new looking team:

Squad
1 Fabien Lechesa GK
2 Granwald Mabedi DEF
3 Sibusiso Fredericks DEF
4 Austin Sibaya DEF
5 Musawenkosi Ngwenya DEF
6 Paul Kalaka MID
7 Ryan Lehoko MID
8 Marco Lingard MID
9 Thabiso Ledwaba ATT
10 Granwald Masenia ATT
11 Arthur Serola ATT

12 Jeffrey Tavlibudine GK
13 Shingayi Kalaka MID
14 Valentine Methula ATT
15 Bheki Lingard ATT
16 Burton Felix MID
Set pieces
Free kick: not specified
Penalty kick: Arthur Serola
Conditional orders
Min. Condition / Action
1' red card or no player
Granwald Masenia on position 1
1' red card or no player
Paul Kalaka on position 2
1' red card or no player
Paul Kalaka on position 3
1' red card or no player
Paul Kalaka on position 4
1' red card or no player
Paul Kalaka on position 5
70' always
Burton Felix on position 7
60' always
Valentine Methula on position 10
75' always
Bheki Lingard on position 9

edit - I made some changes - Bheki Lingard will play instead of Chelin and is going to be our 3 debutant in this match.
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Recently we've destroyed Marocco 7:3, let's see if we can repeat that or if it was just a ME fluke..

You shouldn't change tactic that works, but still I made few corrections, our defense is going to be much lower (we really struggled last time) , but bit higher, than against Pilipinas.
Anyway you can check it yourself, I made a little trick :-) It's a simple 433, but I would appriciate your comments:-)
Serola will play on Ledwaba's place this time, he was bit lost in the last matches in the center attack and we have to involve him much more, let's see if he can follow Ledwaba's performance. Plus he has better MID skills, if he decides to pass the ball from the side..

Tactic: (you can move the ball on the picture, just like in the editor)



The line up is the same as in the previous match, there won't be many changes during the season..

Squad
1 Fabien Lechesa GK
2 Granwald Mabedi DEF
3 Sibusiso Fredericks DEF
4 Austin Sibaya DEF
5 Musawenkosi Ngwenya DEF
6 Paul Kalaka MID
7 Ryan Lehoko MID
8 Marco Lingard MID
9 Arthur Serola ATT
10 Granwald Masenia ATT
11 Thabiso Ledwaba ATT

12 Jeffrey Tavlibudine GK
13 Kelvin Lekgwathi DEF
14 Valentine Methula ATT
15 Bheki Lingard ATT
16 Burton Felix MID
Set pieces
Free kick: not specified
Penalty kick: Arthur Serola
Conditional orders
Min. Condition / Action
1' red card or no player
Granwald Masenia on position 1
1' red card or no player
Paul Kalaka on position 2
1' red card or no player
Paul Kalaka on position 3
1' red card or no player
Paul Kalaka on position 4
1' red card or no player
Paul Kalaka on position 5
55' always
Valentine Methula on position 10
70' always
Burton Felix on position 7
75' always
Bheki Lingard on position 11
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Looks great. Good luck. :)

Looks very good. All the best!

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al-Jazā’ir played the same tactic in recent matches, which makes it easier for us. Their defense is moving quite a lot, but on their half stays very low, so our high defense should be perfect counter tactic and we should be dominating the territory and whole match.
I've changed the tactic and put 2 defmids as it is probably better suited position for Lingard, they will be closer to the high defense and should avoid the "breaking" of the defense as the defenders should not be running towards the strikers. The defmids should also keep in check their wide MIDs.

I'm trying to minimize the MIDs movement as much as possible..the problem could be with throw ins, but hopefully there won't be many around penalty area, as I'm trying to play everything through the middle. The higher defense should help with the throw ins as it could be directed to the wing backs. Their throw in and especially corner kick defense is pretty lame anyway, so hopefully we will exploit that.
Shame we don't have any winger, it could work nicely also against them.

You can check the first version of the tactic here:

Looks good to me!

If I may propose 3 little modifications:

- the 2 defMIDS: I'd put them a little closer together and I case lower in the fields of the mid-line and the one above
-I'd let the forwards move more horizontally, they are easier to cover by the defenders when they are moving forward in a straight line
- As I mentioned in the national forum, I'd put 2 forwards together on one side, crossing when moving forward, the 3rd forward on the other side to spread the defense.

a good 4-5-1 tactic (despite the def mids, again, I'd put them a little lower).
But wingers as well as 1 forward-tactics have shown to be less efficient with the new ME. I don't use this kind of tactics anymore, at least 2 forwards or 1 forward and a very offensive MID behind him. a winger can still be useful, but I'd put him as well with 2 other offensive players

btw, another idea: when playing without wingers and 4 defenders: why not make the pitch in the stadium less large?

- the 2 defMIDS: I'd put them a little closer together and I case lower in the fields of the mid-line and the one above

I can put them bit lower. But i like to keep them wide for the opponents MIDs and also for the through balls to the strikers..

-I'd let the forwards move more horizontally, they are easier to cover by the defenders when they are moving forward in a straight line
- As I mentioned in the national forum, I'd put 2 forwards together on one side, crossing when moving forward, the 3rd forward on the other side to spread the defense.

Good points, I'll try that..
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