All Whites vs Peru | First leg | Sat 11 Nov | 4:15pm | RoF

Don't think the Ffa have a spare million either.

Being sponsored by Qantas might have helped. 

Peru are flying in to mounting criticism so they would probably rather take their time getting home ;)

Stop pretending like you know anything about Peru. You're like Craig Bellamy pre-match for BeIN - no fudgeing clue.

any press translations yet?

Apparently the pitch in Lima is quite a bit wider than the Westpac stadium pitch.

May be harder to limit their wingers space in the next game. We're going to have to defend our asses off (and still score)

They feel Peru did not play with enough urgency...took too long transitioning into attack and allowed nz to regroup with numbers. essentially never got out of second gear 

They tried to show patience but ended up being to patient on the ball..almost expecting a goal to happen without having to do much

That sounded like a goal!

Basically sums up your post. If you can't remember key parts of the game, why even bother composing a huge rant? Most of your observations are so wrong I'm not even sure you watched any more than the Peruvian media's highlights.

Peru arrived in Lima two hours ago....just saw Chri wood on Cuba street two hours ago...dunno how that will affect second game

yeah there was quite a bit of talk in peru media that the width of the pitch helped nz defensively. Not sure how much wider lima is but could mean a harder day at the office for the wide defenders

They'll still be apologising for not scoring when we get there

That is all.

How much wider is the Lima pitch? The Cake Tin strikes me as a fairly large football field. 

Aren't there rules around max pitch sides etc... I thought at International level these were pretty standardised to stop pitch doctoring as it were - direct nations shortening the pitch etc.

Length: minimum 100 m (110 yds)

maximum 110 m (120 yds)

Width: minimum 64 m (70 yds)

maximum 75 m (80 yds)

From FIFA laws of the game.

And according to Wikipedia:

The Peru national stadium in Lima is 104.9m x 67.86 so doesn't seem outrageously large.

Ta

Maybe they got lost on ours?. ;>)

to me Peru biggest mistake was having no urgency in attack they seemed to take their sweet time getting attacks started much to Farfan annoyance. He was making runs that required a through ball but the mids never tried to filter those passes through 

They played Farfan like he was Guerrero and he requires a different passes 

also they highlighted GK, Reid and Thomas as key kiwi players and feel Hudson won the tactical battle

Alberto Rodriguez was essentially only player that escaped criticism and The goalie but he did not have much to do. Ramos the other cb got an ok mark

I hope the team (Peru) gets absolutely smashed by their media over the next few days. Every bad article / comment adds up.

it's mostly criticizing  the team confussing passivness with patience. They expect the same deep defensive set up by NZ in Lima with usual long balls and hoping to bury one at least one 

the negative press is always present and has been for the whole process so in that sense they are used to it

Sucks for them then cos we have a 180 min game-plan and Anphony has a few surprises up his sleeve ...#managerstyley

I was at the game:

1. We were not outclassed.

2. 0-0 was a fair result.

3. We have a very real chance to win in Lima.

4. I would of preferred a taller striker to start but can understand Hudson starting Rojas and Kosta because he really knows what they can do and are capable of whereas he has limited [and in Brockie's case - nil] with Brockie, Fallon and Smeltz.

5. Crowd participation by both sides was great and loud.

6. My only negative comment to make is that we are a lot slower than the likes of Peru to launch attacks, they just seem to flick a switch and its on.

7. Made the cooment to my mmate as we were leaving - we need to be playing against this standard of opposition more often in this Country, we will draw the crowds and we are capable of grabbing some results against these top tier nations.

If anyone is interested, the team is about to take off. You can follow them on their flight to Buenos Aries here: https://www.flightradar24.com/ANZ30/f815041

Flight number: NZ30

I do watch FR quite a bit..but not this time.  It will overfly Hawkes Bay as it departs NZ. 

Peru's home games have produced 2 losses 3 draws and 4 wins

lost to Chile 4 3

beat Paraguay 1 0

drew with Venezuela 2 2 

beat Ecuador 2 1

drew with Argentina 2 2

lost to Brazil 2 0

beat Uruguay 2 1

beat Bolivia 2 1

drew with Colombia 1 1 

so they have conceded in 8 out of 9 games

side note the draw with nz has stretched Peru's current unbeaten run to 9 games (all in 2017)

Anyone got a link to what he said? I heard he was bagging all our players for some reason.

Peru will have their first training session at 10am so roughly 7 hours from now....no rest at all. Coach not a happy camper one would assume 

At 3am? He must be really pissed!

Arg! thought you'd update ;)

haha yeah I misread the article...then looked at current lima time and went back to read article again....my bad

Anyone got a link to what he said? I heard he was bagging all our players for some reason.

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He was not bagging all our players at all. What he said was that overall Peru were a much better footballing team.

I haven't read all of this thread so I'm sure I'm repeating much of what has been said.

Awful first 15 minutes, apart from that we looked fine and Peru didn't create much.  We looked dangerous up front after Wood came on and this has me pumped for the second leg.  Early shambles in defence but Marinovic did bloody well to get back and clear off the line.

Last 10 mins with a few great chances the tin was rocking and we could have snuck a 1 nil win.  Thomas's one that shaved the post!  Damn that was a close one.

Nil all is a great result and I'm hoping the boys get confidence from this that we are competitive.  First 20 in Peru is huge, stay in it and as the game goes on they'll be getting nervous.  The pressure is all on them.  Half day on Thursday for sure.

Just for the record, I owe AH an apology - as unhappy as I was about keeping Wood on the bench, the team functioned well (well enough at least) without him. Agree that we looked more threatening once he came on, but if he wasn't 100% recovered, then resting him for the crucial return leg was a smart idea.

Also want to say how amazing Saturday was - coming from Italy, I'm used to big games and tense atmospheres and I felt we gave Europeans and South Americans a run for their money on the weekend.

On a side note, if we don't qualify, I'm going to have recurring dreams of that Ryan Thomas shot for many many years!

Can I just say, this was amazing! Never heard our national anthem sung so loud, was a great call by Shane and NZ Football to not having a vocalist lead it and to have the words on the big screens.

Always thought FIFA regulations meant that it had to be played via CD, and had to be just music. And 90s max

Maybe misinterrupted what Shane meant but he did say he had been speaking with NZF during the week about the words on the screen for the game.

FIFA just do recorded music not words..so words on screen was good idea.  Was never going to be a singer like ABs.