New Zealand Men's U-17s
That's part of the problem of the NZ game (and I'm not picking on these guys specifically it's at all levels)�our distribution is poor and we are static, look at the Japanese they always offer themselves up for the return pass or move into a position to support the ball carrier where as we make a pass, admire how good it was and wonder why the player we gave it to gets disposed.
I'm not advocating that players run around like chickens with their head cut-off but we need to develop that support play if we are going to improve
well yeh, i'd agree
but touch, pace, fitness, physicality�also (and those later two hurt, usually�strengths for nz)weren't (m)any areas we were better than japan
all round second best today
i'd quite like to see how japan goes from here - do we loose Sky coverage now NZ is out?
I guess it all comes back to how these guys are trained as youngsters. If they haven't been coached in this style of play then I suppose we can't rag on them when they don't play that way. It's a great advertisement for the up skilling of coaches that NZ Football is trying to undertake.
Yeah, I agree. Also need to improve facilities. Better pitches will promote a more technical possession based game.
Always drag opposition down by saying their players are dirty, as Teza does. Then, we come from a small country with 4.2 million, the playing conditions are tough, eg high temp and high humidity, then ref is against us, crowd is not supporting and cheering us, but seldom that we are not good enough at that level. Then, oh well, they can play for Phoenix becasue they scored goals against Ubek. So we move on.
Playing for a penalty shootout?
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Always drag opposition down by saying their players are dirty, as Teza does. Then, we come from a small country with 4.2 million, the playing conditions are tough, eg high temp and high humidity, then ref is against us, crowd is not supporting and cheering us, but seldom that we are not good enough at that level. Then, oh well, they can play for Phoenix becasue they scored goals against Ubek. So we move on.
Yeah, I agree. Also need to improve facilities. Better pitches will promote a more technical possession based game.
worse than the game against Nigeria, never thought I'd say that. Pretty poor. Hopefully they can learn something from this. No one will be more disappointed than the players.
Teza is speaking about himself, being a meathead as usual. Maybe soccer in nz has to crawl out of the oval mentality, ie. physicality, kick and chase, hulk and size!
Never said we would.
But would rather play Japan than Germany.
Gee. I'm sure glad we did not play Germany
Teza is speaking about himself, being a meathead as usual. Maybe soccer in nz has to crawl out of the oval mentality, ie. physicality, kick and chase, hulk and size!
Goal keeper was left to fight on his own........ couldnt do bugger all with the goals scored.. defence was horrible!!
Teza is speaking about himself, being a meathead as usual. Maybe soccer in nz has to crawl out of the oval mentality, ie. physicality, kick and chase, hulk and size!
Teza is speaking about himself, being a meathead as usual. Maybe soccer in nz has to crawl out of the oval mentality, ie. physicality, kick and chase, hulk and size!
Our best player at the tournament by a mile. If he was from Nelson you would fawn all over him.
Friggin understatement,they identified his weakness then played him all day.There is a natural left foot athlete on the bench for godsake.Played 15mins out of these 4 WC games?
What the hell do i know..................
Our best player at the tournament by a mile. If he was from Nelson you would fawn all over him.
If the clown face didn't make it clear that I was obviously joking, then I will now confirm the sarcasm.
There are 2 awesome athletes[left foot on the bench?...........] but apparently we didnt want/need them today.......fksk
I assure you they would have made a difference.
Wheres Ramon now?
Always drag opposition down by saying their players are dirty, as Teza does. Then, we come from a small country with 4.2 million, the playing conditions are tough, eg high temp and high humidity, then ref is against us, crowd is not supporting and cheering us, but seldom that we are not good enough at that level. Then, oh well, they can play for Phoenix becasue they scored goals against Ubek. So we move on........................................................................................................................
You're overestimating Tuiloma, he's not a very good wide defender, although admittedly he's got a good touch and is decent going forward.
You're overestimating Tuiloma, he's not a very good wide defender, although admittedly he's got a good touch and is decent going forward.
I think he means Adams.
i so hoped i was wrong this time..
The Japs movement in and around the box�looked good but their goals were of our making. We didn't mark at crucial moments. Our keeper should have taken a straight forward cross come goal. And we let in an own goal.
The way the goals came is irrelevant really, they were on an entirely different level. We could've been hit for double figures there.
How high do you expect a keeper to jump exactly?