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i saw the game live here in Bs. As, and This is a very tough group, a group of death. You can not prepare a game ot this, with only 36 hours . Canada played well., the pitch is not for players like hume , radz , de rosario and the guzman....the fans were giants,

1- GET NSALIWA to play r back.,

2- canada looked naive in the middle,

3- maybe hirschfeld shoul be at goal next game

4-If mexico loses , canada needs to beat honduras at home, to get in top seat.. Mexico will not make a win from Kingston, ....a

5- Team played well, i did not like kuklowski, and maybe imhoff should have played.....

MITCHELL NEEDS TO CALL AT LEAST 20 PLAYERS FOR EACH GAME.-

canada will get stronger after this, and i think that with 11 points will make it

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quote:Originally posted by Lurker

Hey Javier... who's this guy: Maynor FIGUEROA and how important is he to the Honduran team?

It means we can probably expect Ivan Guerrero in his place, with 3 Honduran-based defenders playing alongside him.

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quote:Originally posted by Javier

2- canada looked naive in the middle,

You hit it right on the nose with this one. We were weak in the mid. In the second half, I saw JDG and DeRo end up dropping so far back because they were not getting the ball up front.

We are seriously lacking in a "Zidane" type player in the mid. Someone who can control the game and help move the ball through the ranks and to the forwards.

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quote:Originally posted by jabbronies

You hit it right on the nose with this one. We were weak in the mid. In the second half, I saw JDG and DeRo end up dropping so far back because they were not getting the ball up front.

We are seriously lacking in a "Zidane" type player in the mid. Someone who can control the game and help move the ball through the ranks and to the forwards.

Like I've said in another thread I felt that the size of the field didn't help our midfield. BMO is very small compare to most fields I've seen (Azteca for example). It seems that it's easier for the opposition to put pressure on you in the middle and I thought Jamaica was pretty effective in doing so.

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well u have it in de guzman

THAT IS WHY IMHOFF or NSALIWA ARE A MUST , because they can deliver the ball clen to de rosario o de guzman , or hutchinson...

canada was lacking of a tactic player in the middle

bernier is more creative , and does not feel it ...but he can replace de guzman or hutchinson in an advance position

MY TEAM FOR NEXT

STALTERI SERIOUX KUKLOWSKI BRENNAN

IMHOFF

HUTCHINSON DE GUZMAN

DE ROSARIO

HUME FRIEND

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Is the field at BMO really as small as people contend?

I've been to games in Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Columbus and New York all in the past year, and the pitch at BMO doesn't look any smaller than any of those.

The field is 75x115, which is bigger than FIFA minimum standards (and bigger than the playing surface at Commonwealth). It was big enough for a World Cup final.

I think the main camera angle at BMO makes the field look smaller than it actually is. I've never heard anyone say that it is a small field until very recently on this board (and usually by people who have never been to the stadium).

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The pitch at BMO isn't that small, but it does look like it has degraded over the last two years.

I never really believed we had the best midfield in CONCACAF, but I don't think we're s-hite now either. Deguzman was often spectacular and Hutch did what he needed to. Serioux also helped out a lot out if the back too. Jamaica often had 10 men behind the ball and were looking to slow the match down at all times. Even then the midfield did what they had to. It wasn't the midfield's that Onstad surrendered that goal. Ricketts was also sensational in the last 15 minutes. In retrospect, I might have played McKenna cause we could have used another arial threat given that most our chance we coming down the flanks/set-pieces. And bringing off Friend and Bernier was insane. Friend needs to play 90. He would have found a goal. Radz was the guy to come off for Humey. That's all we needed.

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quote:Originally posted by Rudi

Is the field at BMO really as small as people contend?

I've been to games in Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Columbus and New York all in the past year, and the pitch at BMO doesn't look any smaller than any of those.

The field is 75x115, which is bigger than FIFA minimum standards (and bigger than the playing surface at Commonwealth). It was big enough for a World Cup final.

I think the main camera angle at BMO makes the field look smaller than it actually is. I've never heard anyone say that it is a small field until very recently on this board (and usually by people who have never been to the stadium).

For the record, I've been to BMO (Chile vs Canada in 2007).

I just checked some other stadiums and they're about the same size as BMO. So I guess it's me who got that feeling from the TV yesterday with the camera angle.

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Loyola seems to be insisting that the BMO pitch is smaller than Azteca --much smaller, in fact. Obviously the stadium itself is enormous and the camera perspectives are different but the pitches are the same size: 105 m x 68 m (meters, not yards). Did you read that, Loyola? Please stop posting that the playing field in Toronto is "much smaller". Thanks.

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quote:Originally posted by teddym

Loyola seems to be insisting that the BMO pitch is smaller than Azteca --much smaller, in fact. Obviously the stadium itself is enormous and the camera perspectives are different but the pitches are the same size: 105 m x 68 m (meters, not yards). Did you read that, Loyola? Please stop posting that the playing field in Toronto is "much smaller". Thanks.

Hey, did you get read my last post. Like I've said my bad....

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The issue isn't the size of the field. The problem is the surface. Where on grass Radz would have had little trouble tracking down a long ball into the left corner--second half--at BMO he needed another five yards because of how high the bloody ball bounces on that turf. Getting the ball under control, one of the most important things in football, is made more difficult on field turf. For that reason, you'd think that a field made of this sort of artificial surface should indeed be larger to compensate.

Or, even better, cash in Edu cash for grass. Go a head and called it Edu Field for all I care. Just stop smoking the grass and starting sowing it.

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quote:Originally posted by jabbronies

You hit it right on the nose with this one. We were weak in the mid. In the second half, I saw JDG and DeRo end up dropping so far back because they were not getting the ball up front.

We are seriously lacking in a "Zidane" type player in the mid. Someone who can control the game and help move the ball through the ranks and to the forwards.

Kind of a nonsensical statement - every team is lacking a Zidane. We are simply lacking an offensive X factor just at the moment...but de guz and de ro seem to combine for a nice one as a pair. Hutchinson needs to get more involved offensively though to say the least.

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quote:Originally posted by loyola

For the record, I've been to BMO (Chile vs Canada in 2007).

Yeah I knew that. That's why I added the "usually" part. [:P]

I've actually read the same thing written by one or two other people on this board though. I'm not sure where anyone would get the impression that the showpiece stadium of a FIFA U-20 World Cup would have an undersized pitch, though.

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quote:Originally posted by Rudi

Yeah I knew that. That's why I added the "usually" part. [:P]

I've actually read the same thing written by one or two other people on this board though. I'm not sure where anyone would get the impression that the showpiece stadium of a FIFA U-20 World Cup would have an undersized pitch, though.

Well, as one of the guilty poster here I would say that I was under the impression that BMO was the smallest possible size accepted by FIFA and that others stadiums were a bit larger. Then add to that the TV impression I had yesterday, I started believing the field could be bigger (well it could be but there's no point since Azteca and other Euro stadiums are the same size as BMO...).

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quote:Originally posted by bettermirror

Kind of a nonsensical statement - every team is lacking a Zidane. We are simply lacking an offensive X factor just at the moment...but de guz and de ro seem to combine for a nice one as a pair. Hutchinson needs to get more involved offensively though to say the least.

The midfield had a tough time breaking down a well organized Jamaican side in the first half, and ironically it was our decision to play decent long balls over the top that helped open things up. Our goal was created that way, as were a number of other chances. The biggest problem with Friend is that he more or less stays in the centre of the pitch, which gives our midfielders and fullbacks few options going forward, and which makes it damned easy for the opposing team to shut him down, in essence killing our attack. When Gerba came on, he was making diagonals into corners, which made it more difficult for the Jammas to defend. And remember, the DeGuz post came from a Gerba pass after he'd made one of these very good runs.

We've got to start Gerba next game. I feel we need 5 in the midfield, so we need to make better use of our lone striker.

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Kudos to jamaca's B team, they took the canadians from thier normal game for the most part, they shut down de guzman,(a lapse caused the goal) dero and friend. leave me to wonder what would have happened if they had fuller or king starting or even bringing shelton and Hue on earlier in place of williams and burton respectively instead of william and wolfe.

Plus if shelton wasnt jet lagged he would have been more effective than burton(i dont kno what simoes see in him), he burned the defence for the few minuites had.

Jamaica could have won the match, dont believe simoes gonna be conservative on the return leg.

I hate the pitch it was like playing on concrete. if it was grass we would have had a better match.

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quote:Originally posted by realjamaican

Jamaica could have won the match, dont believe simoes gonna be conservative on the return leg.

Perfect. We'll devour you then! (Opening up isn't a good idea, but I'm sure Simoes ain't so foolish to do that against us. Mind you, by the time we play again, Jamaica is going to be desperate for points and won't have any choice.)[^]

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