Lord Bob Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 That second goal makes me feel better. Now I can't say "if Latendresse-Lévesque just knew where to stand we'd have gotten to extra time." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Terrible marking in our own box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmcmurph Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Lets get one back. Just one, and then one more. One thing I notice every time our U23/20/17 play central american teams is that their first touch, passing and pass receiving is way better than ours. Until we get better at that we will struggle. Several times we have missed passes in the final third. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free kick Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Terrible marking in our own box Hmmmmm!! Marking in our own box is probably the best thing that we have been able to do in this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superbrad Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Every fricken time we take possession from them we are so good at giving it right back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free kick Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Another good save Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppy Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 The announcer is starting to scoff at us.. anyway, the bunker stuff never works, why bother.. have the guts to play soccer and lose big, like Cuba, that's my final statement. It's painful to watch, embarrassing and doesn't work anyway.. put those coaches that believe in it out to pasture.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarnado1555362291 Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 they just backed right off him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmcmurph Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 crap crap another long bomb. not quite as good as the previous one but nice shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 The announcer is starting to scoff at us.. anyway, the bunker stuff never works, why bother.. have the guts to play soccer and lose big, like Cuba, that's my final statement. It's painful to watch, embarrassing and doesn't work anyway.. put those coaches that believe in it out to pasture.. Exactly at this age its time to learn to play football competitively, its giving the players the wrong mindset but hey what can you do when you cant complete a throw in or two foot pass. Blanco Jr. scores, cant believe how chubby their #10 is hahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Bob Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 You could have spotted our U-20s two full national team players and it wouldn't have made a difference. Credit to Mexico, who came out hard for most of the game and didn't give us a chance to catch our breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppy Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Now I know there are plenty of people here that can analyze a game better than me, but I suggest what contributed to the bad breakout passing is that they had very few choices forward to pass to! Mexico surrounded the poor soul and that was that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Embarrassing performance. At least we don't have to suffer with this team any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free kick Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 You could have spotted our U-20s two full national team players and it wouldn't have made a difference. Credit to Mexico, who came out hard for most of the game and didn't give us a chance to catch our breath. I have been preaching for the past two weeks the impact of the absent players. But in this game I am not sure that even they would have made a difference. This game was lost in the engine room (Midfield). The absent players would have given us a threat on the flanks and up front. But we couldn't control the the ball or orchestrate anything in central MF. Although I thought Stinson was Ok enough to make me wonder why he didn't see more action Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppy Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 On the positive side, I don't think the next team can be any worse.. only up from here. lol.. anyway, good night.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 There were patches in the 2nd half - with the right personnel on the field - which showed that we could actually pass the ball against this team. At the same time, our 1 v. 1 defending was often quite good - a lot of defenders won a hell of a lot of tackles, until they inevitably got tired at the end. Which suggests to me that the game tactic was all wrong. Bunkering has only ever worked for us with Craig Forrest in goal, why do we bother to continue with it? I'd rather lose giving these kids a chance to play their game then this same old tired unsuccessful stuff. I've seen enough now from this coach that I wouldn't want him back. Feel sorry for the boys - they tried and played hard, to see some like Bassi being consoled by Osorio shows how much they wanted it. Despite the lack of qualification, I think there's a number of prospects on this team and the number of them on pro clubs (including those injured or denied participation by their clubs) gives me hope that they will continue to progress even though this U20 team will not. My thumbs up to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFCRegina Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Would have liked to see Stillo out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccerpro Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 There were patches in the 2nd half - with the right personnel on the field - which showed that we could actually pass the ball against this team. At the same time, our 1 v. 1 defending was often quite good - a lot of defenders won a hell of a lot of tackles, until they inevitably got tired at the end. Which suggests to me that the game tactic was all wrong. Bunkering has only ever worked for us with Craig Forrest in goal, why do we bother to continue with it? I'd rather lose giving these kids a chance to play their game then this same old tired unsuccessful stuff. I've seen enough now from this coach that I wouldn't want him back. Feel sorry for the boys - they tried and played hard, to see some like Bassi being consoled by Osorio shows how much they wanted it. Despite the lack of qualification, I think there's a number of prospects on this team and the number of them on pro clubs (including those injured or denied participation by their clubs) gives me hope that they will continue to progress even though this U20 team will not. My thumbs up to them. If the CSA appoint Gazzola as coach of another national team I'll send hate mail to the CSA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Bob Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 There were patches in the 2nd half - with the right personnel on the field - which showed that we could actually pass the ball against this team. Even that was because Mexico was closing down less aggressively. The key problem was that our players (all of them) made bad decisions under pressure. Then it seemed to get into heads and they did things like launch throw-ins without even looking around the field to see if that Mexican is already in position to intercept it. The Mexicans took most of Canada's time away, and that means that even when we had time we usually thought we didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free kick Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Now I know there are plenty of people here that can analyze a game better than me, but I suggest what contributed to the bad breakout passing is that they had very few choices forward to pass to! Mexico surrounded the poor soul and that was that.. They didn't control the ball in MF so there is really nothing the fwds could do. the first half was played in Canada's end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free kick Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 There were patches in the 2nd half - with the right personnel on the field - which showed that we could actually pass the ball against this team. At the same time, our 1 v. 1 defending was often quite good - a lot of defenders won a hell of a lot of tackles, until they inevitably got tired at the end. Which suggests to me that the game tactic was all wrong. Bunkering has only ever worked for us with Craig Forrest in goal, why do we bother to continue with it? I'd rather lose giving these kids a chance to play their game then this same old tired unsuccessful stuff. I've seen enough now from this coach that I wouldn't want him back. Feel sorry for the boys - they tried and played hard, to see some like Bassi being consoled by Osorio shows how much they wanted it. Despite the lack of qualification, I think there's a number of prospects on this team and the number of them on pro clubs (including those injured or denied participation by their clubs) gives me hope that they will continue to progress even though this U20 team will not. My thumbs up to them. Yup, I completely agree that there a couple of prospects in this group and thats excluding the absent players. But then again, I have seen a few that are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gian-Luca Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Even that was because Mexico was closing down less aggressively. They were closing down more aggressively beforehand because they only had one or two players to focus closing down on, so they were able to do so easily and with numbers. Throw 5 or 6 players up there like any normal team trying to play soccer would have and it's a different story. Our only positive attacking moments came when Osorio came on and was playing further up the field bringing others up with him so that Teibert & Cavallini were no longer trying to do the impossible on their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 They didn't control the ball in MF so there is really nothing the fwds could do. the first half was played in Canada's end. The central midfield lost possession far too often today but that was often a result of having no outlets. The flanks and forwards were too busy defending to be effective outlets. It's pretty harsh to lay the blame on the middle of the park when it was a team effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegan Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Gage was guilty of trying to do too much tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Hombre Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Yup, I completely agree that there a couple of prospects in this group and thats excluding the absent players. But then again, I have seen a few that are not. If only a couple players come out of this team as MNT regulars then that would be on par with years past and I'd be happy with that. Going back through our U20 teams, there are usually only 2 or 3 at most that make a significant impact on the senior team: 01 - De Guzman, Friend, Klukowski 03 - Hutch, Simpson, Hume 05 - De Jong (possibly Hainault) 07 - Jackson, Johnson Take into account that guys like McKenna, Jakovic, Occean, Nakajim-Farran and Hirschfeld, who never featured for our U20 teams, always seem to pop up out of the blue and that other guys like Simpson take a little while to really come into their own. Even though we didn't have a great showing, not all is lost for the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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