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Posted January 09, 2023 10:37 · last edited January 09, 2023 10:56

Someone didn't like Hay. So you state
I also think you need two exceptional wingbacks and two exceptional central midfielders to play a back 5 in a way that doesn't cede all possession and territory and we have maybe 1 of those 4 in Cacace.

Then go on about us having 68% of possession against CR, was some sort of pointless stat anyway.

Which is it?

But as pointed out by others we lost against CR mostly because we didn't make more of a string of half chances created. I'm sure Hay could have done better, but the formation wasn't the hugely critical factor you are making it out to be. Especially when the team was sans Singh & Thomas it's 2 best midfielders, and Stamenic had a bad case of the nervous yips, froze and blew his audition against Peru. He couldn't be risked as a starter against CR, based on his poor Peru game.

Oh and El Salvador are FIFA ranked 74. NZ are 105. I imagine the El Salvadorons probably have a collection of players around the world at a similar level to us. It won't be that hard to visualise that, with football being their no 1 sport & all. So honestly why should we be majorly better than them.

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Unknown editor edited January 09, 2023 10:56
Someone didn't like Hay. So you state
I also think you need two exceptional wingbacks and two exceptional central midfielders to play a back 5 in a way that doesn't cede all possession and territory and we have maybe 1 of those 4 in Cacace.

Then go on about us having 68% of possession against CR, was some sort of pointless stat anyway.

Which is it?

But as pointed out by others we lost against CR mostly because we didn't make more of a string of half chances created. I'm sure Hay could have done better, but the formation wasn't the hugely critical factor you are making it out to be. Especially when the team was sans Singh & Thomas it's 2 best midfielders, and Stamenic had a bad case of the nervous yips, froze and blew his audition against Peru. He couldn't be risked as a starter against CR, based on his poor Peru game.

Oh and El Salvador are FIFA ranked 74. NZ are 105. I imagine the El Salvadorons probably have a collection of players around the world at a similar level to us. It won't be that hard to visualise that, and football being their no 1 sport & all. So honestly why should be majorly better than them.
Unknown editor edited January 09, 2023 10:43
Someone didn't like Hay. So you state
I also think you need two exceptional wingbacks and two exceptional central midfielders to play a back 5 in a way that doesn't cede all possession and territory and we have maybe 1 of those 4 in Cacace.

Then go on about us having 68% of possession against CR, was some sort of pointless stat anyway.

Which is it?

But as pointed out by others we lost against CR mostly because we didn't make more of a string of half chances created. I'm sure Hay could have done better, but the formation wasn't the hugely critical factor you are making it out to be. Especially when the team was sans Singh & Thomas it's 2 best midfielders, and Stamenic had a bad case of the nervous yips, froze and blew his audition against Peru. He couldn't be risked as a starter against CR, based on his poor Peru game.

Unknown editor edited January 09, 2023 10:38
Someone didn't like Hay. So you state
I also think you need two exceptional wingbacks and two exceptional central midfielders to play a back 5 in a way that doesn't cede all possession and territory and we have maybe 1 of those 4 in Cacace.

Then go on about us having 68% of possession against CR, was some sort of pointless stat anyway.

Which is it?

But as pointed out by others we lost against CR mostly because we didn't make more of a string of half chances created. I'm sure Hay could have done better, but the formation wasn't the hugely critical factor you are making it out to be. Especially when the team was sans Singh & Thomas it's 2 best midfielders, and Stamenic had case of the nervous yips, froze and blew his audition against Peru. He couldn't be risked as a starter against CR, based on his poor Peru game.