All Whites v Peru | Mon 6th June | 3.30am | SS1

30 mins and water break. She must be warm. We are doing okay. But yeah have been lucky.  This game is great for likes of Stamenic, Greive etc

It’s a massive leap from Danish 2nd tier SPL and the like. Initimidating atmosphere. Stamenic and Bell have their hands full. Same Smith who is starting to look slow already

Bell has struggled considering how highly he is rated. Smith also looking pretty slow, assume Boxall will get a chance second half. 

Smith has been well positioned, and covered the inside run from their right well. May not be quick, but can time a challenge.

Bell and Stamenic has been poor for me in the first half particularly in possession. Need to be better with it. 

Not really offering much on attack at the moment.

Not a bad half from us, been competitive in the middle, got in at 0-0, Peru have had some chances but can you honestly argue they deserve the lead off the chances they've had? I can't. 

Remember Costa Rica are also not as good as Peru. And lost to Panama the other day. So good signs. Let's see what our boys can do second half!

Pretty sure I've seen Oli Sail run out of his box more in this half than I have during his entire career at the Nix. Is that out of necessity or just lack of familiarity and trust with his centre backs? Either way heart attack inducing stuff.

Getting to half time without conceding is crucial with regards to the big dance next week. No small feat given how starved of possession we've been. But you get the feeling the levee is gonna break soon. Would love to see us have some proper build up play and maybe get a few more shots off in the second half before that happens.

We've also managed to slow the game down much to the ire of the Peruvians but need to get some passing accuracy and possession retention going to match.

The standard of reffing has been really good though. Had forgotten what that was like.

So many wayward passes, no doubt we are struggling with the pace and higher level opponent. Peru players can see a step ahead of us at times and easily win possession again. That being said we have been better shutting them out than I thought. And Garbett has been playing confidently which goes a long way. A bit too many passes amongst the backline for me, would like to see us play a touch more positive.

MetalLegNZ

Smith has been well positioned, and covered the inside run from their right well. May not be quick, but can time a challenge.

Bell and Stamenic has been poor for me in the first half particularly in possession. Need to be better with it. 

Not really offering much on attack at the moment.

 
They are young and under immense pressure but their passing and option taking has let them down often. Sometimes it seems confusion with Greive etc where they want the ball. Not linking up well

But they badly need to get better in 2nd half. Some of Tuiloma’s passing has been poor as well

Good news is I think Peru are better than CR, and it’s still 0-0. Plus there won’t be 30,000 screaming Ticos fans in Doha. Fudgeing hope not. This is basically a home game for the Peruvians which makes it extra tough

Nice work from Libby and Wood to create the shot for Greive. Libby loves a good nutmeg. Anxx DXC yes the red is excellent 

solid half, as expected Peru have been good on the ball and created some concerning moments which our defence has dealt with well enough, only the corner really threatened, the cross/shot was well taken care of.
Thought the refs have done well not to buy into the Peruvian's going down easy, not that there has been heaps of it.
Think Bell has been kept very quiet, Stamenic too. Garbett has been working hard but the quality pass to the wide men havent been great. Tuiloma has missed Libby twice. 
We look composed, but chances are going to be far and few between so we need to make the ones we get count.

Boxall/Just/Rojas must be next in line to prove themselves for the qualifier?

Pj on for Smith. Little surprised to see Lewis on for Stamenic.

Big chance for Lewis to put his name on the starting 11 for CR.

siac

Holy shark, it's in a different continent, what's the connection between Peru and Spain that so many of them live there (I assume they are locals!)?

Why do 50,000 Kiwis live in London? Colonial history and culture 

siac

Boxall/Just/Rojas must be next in line to prove themselves for the qualifier?

I reckon all three start against Oman - not that we’ll know 

coochiee

siac

Holy shark, it's in a different continent, what's the connection between Peru and Spain that so many of them live there (I assume they are locals!)?

Why do 50,000 Kiwis live in London? Colonial history and culture 

Sure, but even if the All Blacks play in London there wouldn't be close to this many NZ fans (although I just googled and see Peru has a 32 million population which I didn't realise, so similar thing but much bigger population I guess).

Looking much better this half with Lewis in the midfield. We're gonna win the World Cup!

siac

coochiee

siac

Holy shark, it's in a different continent, what's the connection between Peru and Spain that so many of them live there (I assume they are locals!)?

Why do 50,000 Kiwis live in London? Colonial history and culture 

Sure, but even if the All Blacks play in London there wouldn't be close to this many NZ fans (although I just googled and see Peru has a 32 million population which I didn't realise, so similar thing but much bigger population I guess).

Peru has a 6x larger population than NZ and has roughly 33k fans at this game. Equivalent crowd on a per capita basis for NZ would be 5,500, which I think you could reasonably expect in London.

for all his hard work in the midfield, Garbett loses the ball a lot

siac

coochiee

siac

Holy shark, it's in a different continent, what's the connection between Peru and Spain that so many of them live there (I assume they are locals!)?

Why do 50,000 Kiwis live in London? Colonial history and culture 

Sure, but even if the All Blacks play in London there wouldn't be close to this many NZ fans (although I just googled and see Peru has a 32 million population which I didn't realise, so similar thing but much bigger population I guess).

I’m in Lima. There are a heap of charters going to Doha via Madrid. Maybe a few have gone to Spain early. But 3 million Peruvians or about 10% of the popn live overseas. Maybe 500k to 1M in Europe

And they finally have a well coached football team to be proud of. Were Sth American whipping boys for a long time

FFS.

Just over 42,000 Peruvians (over 18) are registered to vote in Barcelona (152,000 in all Spain).

Many Peruvians  living in other European cities would have travelled for the game.

Friar Tuck

siac

coochiee

siac

Holy shark, it's in a different continent, what's the connection between Peru and Spain that so many of them live there (I assume they are locals!)?

Why do 50,000 Kiwis live in London? Colonial history and culture 

Sure, but even if the All Blacks play in London there wouldn't be close to this many NZ fans (although I just googled and see Peru has a 32 million population which I didn't realise, so similar thing but much bigger population I guess).

Peru has a 6x larger population than NZ and has roughly 33k fans at this game. Equivalent crowd on a per capita basis for NZ would be 5,500, which I think you could reasonably expect in London.

Missed how Reid got injured (5am and beers....), if someone kicked him and it's a bruise all good... if it happened as he was running or something Danny should be getting him off the field ASAP.

Payne for Tuiloma. Reid must be ok.

Hope Hay doesn't prioritize this match too much. Get Wood and Reid off about now, they are crucial and had enough time to keep fitness up?

Interesting that it’s Payne on rather than Boxall, not against it though

Edit - shít

Wow... Marinovic needed that to get back in to the starting team.

crap!
why is Payne passing that back to Sail? he's been told to go long!!!

Ooh jeepers nix boys that was a bit silly buggers.

Still... trying to be positive. At least that type of error is in a friendly and not the CR game.

The two A-League guys on the field... maybe Danny was right.

Edit (forgot Lewis).

siac

The two A-League guys on the field... maybe Danny was right.

Edit (forgot Lewis).

nothing to do with the league they play in, that's just a new player coming on and doin something he shouldn't - passing the ball back to his keeper and putting  him under pressure.

The worst part is I think Danny thought Sail was the number 1... and now Marinovic hasn't had a high pressure warm up. And if Sail plays the next match he goes in on the back of that...

Yeah that wasn't good... advantage Stefan. Got to practice playing from behind now which may be valuable. Rock Hopper earlier comment about Oli being a bit uncomfortable having to come up like that looking a bit on the money... it's like he hasn't quite clicked with the defence as of yet. And with time precious, that chemistry is where Stefan may have the edge...

Sail will bounce back form that, and I dont see Hay as being the kind of manager to react suddenly to an error.

Waine! you've got to stay onside fella!!

Is Boxall injured or Danny trying to hide him from Costa Rica... strange he hasn't got any time in this.

siac

The worst part is I think Danny thought Sail was the number 1... and now Marinovic hasn't had a high pressure warm up. And if Sail plays the next match he goes in on the back of that...

Good job the next game is vs Oman, not Costa Rica

siac

Is Boxall injured or Danny trying to hide him from Costa Rica... strange he hasn't got any time in this.

 Here he is

Friar Tuck

siac

The worst part is I think Danny thought Sail was the number 1... and now Marinovic hasn't had a high pressure warm up. And if Sail plays the next match he goes in on the back of that...

Good job the next game is vs Oman, not Costa Rica

 Next game we can watch, that's all that actually happened right!

Libby’s an elite baller, need to get him on the attack as much as possible

Friar Tuck

Libby’s an elite baller, need to get him on the attack as much as possible

Libby and Garbett, very good. I think we're looking OK considering where things are at.

Great hit out despite the loss, my takeaways:
- Defensively we’re very well organised, didn’t look particularly shaky at all with the starting backline.
- Garbett has really announced himself, he’s gonna be a key player in the years to come.
- Need to do better on attack. Really missing Sarpreet and Thomas in getting the ball forward and feeding Wood.
- Need to sharpen up the passing and possession a bit, can’t risk a high volume of turnovers vs CR.

Overall, enormously improved since 2017 and we look like we can give Costa Rica a real run for their money.

We looked much better 2nd half... despite 0-0 half time and losing 1-0. I'm unconvinced about Greive relative to Kosta/Rojas and even Waine. Does having more control of the midfield second half mean Lewis is in contention for a starting spot?