The Road to the FIFA World Cup - South Africa 2010

Say's a lot about Poland if Ebi is usually their best man But with Janota coming through they will have a chance for 2012!

Yef wrote:Say's a lot about Poland if Ebi is usually their best man But with Janota coming through they will have a chance for 2012!

I have to admit that Smolarek was really, really good yesterday. He was dangerous offensively and was surprisengly good tracking back, with right slovakian defender being very offensive minded.

stinger wrote:

Yef wrote:Say's a lot about Poland if Ebi is usually their best man But with Janota coming through they will have a chance for 2012!

I have to admit that Smolarek was really, really good yesterday. He was dangerous offensively and was surprisengly good tracking back, with right slovakian defender being very offensive minded.

Ebi should be scoring much more goals then he has done so far, but he kinda lacks the killing instinct. He is more of winger anyway! Poland is lacking good strikers, no surprise since they play for Germany. Luckily Janota is coming for Leo's boys! Though I hope we can make him Dutch!

kas wrote:

Super Madrid wrote:70'
Things are heating up for Albania. Almedia just hit the inside of the post. Portugals fans are also getting mad. good combinations but they cant quite deliver the final ball. Ronaldo a good player but not such a good captain. he constantly whines at others and has a bad attitude.Carvalho should have gotten it.

What was Quieroz thinking to make Ronaldo captain? Any idiot knows that he's not captain material. Can inspire with his football, but hardly a calm leader of men (unless we're talking about guiding Nani and Anderson about how to find prostitutes in Manchester).

In fact, didn't Scolari give him the armband too sometimes?

Scolari gave him the armband as a premium for is good work
But only when N Gomes,Simao or any other older player was not on the team
Yesterday was the proof in the pudding that the Portuguese FA is more worried in good press than in qualifying Portugal for WC2010
Not to mention that we had 3 circus clowns on the team at one stage (Ronaldo,Quaresma,Nani) that between the 3 of them can not conjure a center to a forward (WTF is H Almeida doing in that team is beyond me) or score an open goal (Nani already missed 2 siters on the qualification)
I did not see the Sweden Game, but the comments back home was that if we had a bit more ambition on the 2ns half we may have nicked it
But against Albania, at home, starting with 4 defenders, and 3 similar midfielder's, is ridiculous
I did say last year on this board, that when Portuguese people seat down to watch WC10 at home, and Portugal is not there, we can discuss Scolari methods and achievements.
Looks like we are almost there....
Thankfully we should have R Carvalho, Simao , Deco and Bosingwa back on the next game

lampiao007,

You're a Benfica fan. how do you rate Nelson at RB?

Neson had a storming 1st season with Benfica when he came from Boavista. Had great potential, lots of pace and trickery, good crosser of the ball (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XTm1QfOLEPA)
Unfortunately, he is prone to brain farts, and goes on mazy runs forward, and completely forgets to defend
Last 2 seasons at Benfica where not brilliant. Was injured for most of one season, and last one he was just inconsequent
But he is a young kid, and the right coach can improve is defensive awareness

lampiao007 wrote:Neson had a storming 1st season with Benfica when he came from Boavista. Had great potential, lots of pace and trickery, good crosser of the ball (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XTm1QfOLEPA)
Unfortunately, he is prone to brain farts, and goes on mazy runs forward, and completely forgets to defend
Last 2 seasons at Benfica where not brilliant. Was injured for most of one season, and last one he was just inconsequent
But he is a young kid, and the right coach can improve is defensive awareness

Thanks, I'm impressed by him than Boswinga. Admittedly both the players need defensive lessons.

zizoued wrote:

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

zizoued wrote:

It'd be easy to diminish Ribery, Vieira, Zizou, and Henry contribution. You could easily take out Malouda , Wiltord , but not the aforementioned's contribution in Les blues attack!

Take out Henry and put in Trezeguet, and you would have probably had a better side. Though to be fair, i doubt Trezeguet would've managed to match Henry's amazing dive against Portugal and his world class playacting against Spain.

He did make most of it, but I think both incidents were fouls. Or, maybe I'm a Blues fan, and I'm biased. Nevermind. Trezegeut was less impressive than Henry for the NT. They tried 4-4-2, but Trez's poaching type didn't really suit others like Zizou and Ribery, who both preferred a link-up striker and get back the ball to shoot. so they prefer Teary to Trez. As I said before, it'd be easy to undermine and undervalue the contributions, but for an inexistent strategy and tactic from clown Domenech, the French attack was about individuals trying to link up and get the goals. It's not like they were creating chances after chances, which would have benefited Trez greatly. And let's not forget Trez miss in the finals.

I don't think either incidents were fouls, unless you think any bit of physical contact is a foul.

Trez has a better goals to games ratio for the NT. Henry's linkup play is overrated. Most of his short passes are inaccurate and often easy to read. When he doesn't see much of the ball he'll start sulking and won't work for the team. Trezeguet has done fine over the years linking up with Nedved and Del Piero and i'm sure he could've done the same with Zidane and Ribery. Trez was also more suited to the 4-2-3-1 since he could actually head the ball and is better at holding it up plus he would've been less likely to drift out wide, unlike Henry. It's easy to blame someone who misses the penalty, but then penalties are a bit of a lottery anyway. I would look at Henry's missed chances in the final instead.

zizoued wrote:
Rio Ferdinand is one of the best Center backs in the world.

That volley from Kuytinovic was brilliant yesterday!

zizoued wrote:lampiao007,

You're a Benfica fan. how do you rate Nelson at RB?

A healthy, focused Miguel is still much better than Bosingwa imo.

Calidad wrote:

zizoued wrote:lampiao007,

You're a Benfica fan. how do you rate Nelson at RB?

A healthy, focused Miguel is still much better than Bosingwa imo.

i AGREE

Vieiri,

It's clear that you don't rate Rio ferdinand at all. And definitely Teary, I don't like the guy either, but your opinions seems quite extreme.

zizoued wrote:Vieiri,

It's clear that you don't rate Rio ferdinand at all. And definitely Teary, I don't like the guy either, but your opinions seems quite extreme.

He's hated Rio since Franco Baresi said that he was underachieving about 5 years ago.

Time has stood still.

Hip Hip Heurelho wrote:

zizoued wrote:Vieiri,

It's clear that you don't rate Rio ferdinand at all. And definitely Teary, I don't like the guy either, but your opinions seems quite extreme.

He's hated Rio since Franco Baresi said that he was underachieving about 5 years ago.

Time has stood still.

I've never rated Rio since i first saw him (which was around 98). Baresi's comments only backup what i had thought for years before.

Yef wrote:

stinger wrote:

Yef wrote:Say's a lot about Poland if Ebi is usually their best man But with Janota coming through they will have a chance for 2012!

I have to admit that Smolarek was really, really good yesterday. He was dangerous offensively and was surprisengly good tracking back, with right slovakian defender being very offensive minded.

Ebi should be scoring much more goals then he has done so far, but he kinda lacks the killing instinct. He is more of winger anyway! Poland is lacking good strikers, no surprise since they play for Germany. Luckily Janota is coming for Leo's boys! Though I hope we can make him Dutch!

Beenhakker wil Janota naar A-ploeg halen

De goede ontwikkeling van Feyenoord-talent Michal Janota is ook in zijn vaderland Polen niet onopgemerkt gebleven. Bondscoach Leo Beenhakker heeft de aanvaller gepolst om aan te sluiten bij de nationale selectie.


Beenhakker zou zeer gecharmeerd zijn van Janota, die zich dit seizoen uitstekend heeft ontwikkeld bij Feyenoord. De bondstrainer nam afgelopen week contact op met de aanvaller om hem warm te maken voor een debuut in de nationale ploeg van Polen, weet RTV Rijnmond.

De achttienjarige Janota, die zijn opleiding genoot bij de Poolse club UKP Zielona Góra, speelt sinds 2006 voor Feyenoord. Na twee seizoenen in de jeugdopleiding van de Rotterdamse club maakte hij deze zomer de overstap naar de eerste selectie.

Overigens heeft Feyenoord een verzoek van de Poolse voetbalbond om Janota te selecteren voor Polen onder 19 naast zich neergelegd. De volksclub mag de aanvraag afslaan, omdat de interlands van de Poolse jeugdploeg gepland zijn buiten de officiele wedstrijdkalender van de UEFA.

I didnt expect him already for Poland But Beenhakker knows what is good! That's the difference between Holland and Germany, we give you strikers and they take them!!

Fey wrote:

That's the difference between Holland and Germany, we give you strikers and they take them!!

You don´t need Polish players. You take them Maroc. Maroc and Surinam must hate Holland for stealing their best talents.

Unbelievable stuff. Honduras are beating México, and if Jamaica get the right result against Canada, the Reggae Boys advance instead of the Aztecs with Honduras winning the group.

IF such remarkable scenario happens, Sven should not go back to México. IF the mexicans are eliminated this early, it would be such an embarrassment.

The "Reggae Boys" had to score 7 goals to advance (they scored 3), so Mexico were basically sure they would go though no matter what the result, but it is embarrassing losing to Jamaica and drawing away to Canada for a team i picked to make the semi's by 2014.

Ireland 0-1 Georgia

We'll take part this tournament!

The show must go on!

Not far to go till the next qualifiers. WC Qualification will be played ian all contents (UEFA, Asia, Asia, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF,) . SOme interesting matches in UEFA qualifications...including my beloved Spain playing Turkey twice in 4 days. 28th March Spain will meet Turkey in Madrid, & 1st April Spain will meet Turkey away in Istanbul. 2 huge matches here, CAN'T WAIT !!!!

Anyone else going to see England v Ukraine on April 1st. If so what do you expect to see? Does Shevchenko feature for Ukraine any more or are they looking to rebuild with a focus on the Euros? And yes I know that Ukrainian teams are doing well in UEFA Cup.

Any other countries -apart from Holland- who can qualify already this international break?

We need to win our 2 home ties v Scotland & Macedonia & Scotland dropping points v Iceland & we've won the group (we'll do anyway).

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My attention this break will go a few top countries, who could be in serious trouble after this break, e.g. Portugal & France

De Guzman wrote:Any other countries -apart from Holland- who can qualify already this international break?

Don't think so, I think the only reason you can is that your group is smaller than all the others. England and Spain are the others with 100% records, but can't qualify for a few games yet.

Pavlyuchenko scores for Russia from Free-Kick.

Germany is playing against Liechtenstein tonight : what are the chances Podolski will score three ?

He's the master of the cat's c**t games after all

Khadrim wrote:Pavlyuchenko scores for Russia from Free-Kick.

What is the Russian team?

Calidad wrote:

Khadrim wrote:Pavlyuchenko scores for Russia from Free-Kick.

What is the Russian team?

Russia