Jesus people are defeatist on here. We are absolutely nowhere close to the realm of 133rd, to suggest so is mental. Do people really think we’re worse than Antigua & Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, Andorra and Swaziland? There are two reasons our ranking is so low:
1) We only play island teams, which do jack shark to improve our ranking;
2) Every time we do play a big team, it’s in a friendly and always experimental so we never try, hence we lose over and over with terrible squads without our best players. Look how we did against Peru in a game that actually mattered, conceding just 2 goals in 2 games, while Saudi Arabia lost to them 3-0 yesterday and Peru’s beaten other big teams like Croatia recently. Against Japan recently, where we had Wood and others playing and we actually tried, we were unlucky to lose 2-1 with Japan scoring a late winner
If we were in AFC for example, we’d be where we deserve, which is somewhere in the realm of 60-90 roughly. Enough proper competitive games to play where we’ll actually try to win instead of being experimental. Apart from Peru and the confeds, when have we not been experimental?
It's also playing away from home 90% of time. We often have to swelter in unfamilar conditions, but never get chance to show some reciprocal hospitality against say the SE Asians teams with a taste of our old.
Look what happened when we played a big team (Peru) at home. Managed a draw against numero 10 in the mundo.
Exactly! Playing Kenya in 40C heat in a monsoon, you'd actually be surprised we did so well with such a weakened team (and dominated the first half), but people are taking this as a definitive measure that we're worse than Kenya and deserve to be where we are.
Why is the heat only a factor for us?
Because we're playing away to teams that are used to it, train in it, and play in it. In this case Kenya is hot and humid so players are used to the conditions (their whole squad is Africa-based)
Unless Kenya are playing at the coast it is not hot and humid in most other places, apart from the north and they don't train or play there.
