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All Whites v Sweden | Sat 17th June | 5:00am NZT | Friends Arena, Stockholm

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Posted June 17, 2023 03:57 · last edited June 17, 2023 05:04

coochiee
mrsmiis
So... verdict?

Don't blame any of that on Bazeley, I think it was very well coached. Can't prevent those atrocious lapses. Sweden took advantage of every little slip-up we had. 

Possession football looks good on us - best we've looked going forward in a long long time
Folks got the back 4 they were after, and Bazeley didn't coach the players to make the costly turnovers they did. And yipe at least the team was chasing goals in the 2nd half, not just sitting back trying to keep at respectable. Their players a class above, and were ruthless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyy25pDEFTw

But I guess that's Baze's issue. He's winning the games we expect to win - China with AWs, Guatamela with U20s - but we look a long way off those teams that have way better players than us. How do we close that gap. Is there perhaps a more inspired choice as a coach out there, given wage restraints NZF have??

At least the team will learn far more playing Sweden in front of a packed house, than next Qatar in front of a few hundred neutrals.

Edit - I would 'This' both the above post game Posts, but can't seem to.
"How do we close the gap?"
Well there's the long game ⬇️
Sweden v New Zealand - 2 x the population, but 32 x more professional football clubs. I'll bleat on about it until I'm blue on the face, but we need more professional opportunities in our own backyard. Admittedly we may have a few more teams to add to our list over the next few years, but that's where we start on our footballing pathway to improvement. Naturally our best talent will gravitate to overseas clubs as it is, and it will continue to be a nice accompaniment to the aforementioned future increase in number of teams/players. 

Grow the game ▶️ Grow the pathways ▶️ Grow the player pool ▶️ Watch the positive outcomes of this snowball into a very good national team setup.

Shorter term ⬇️
Keep organizing games against quality opposition. Get this group together as often as possible, and playing quality games. A lot of the guys in this team are going to be stalwarts of the AW's set up for well over the next decade. You add in guys like Thomas, Wood, and Singh into that too and that's got the makings of a solid national team.

Also - It doesn't need to be said by now, but get a top gaffer in to help pull this all together in the shorter term! That's not to discredit Bazeley's set up from this morning because despite the result, I liked the setup and intent a lot. But NZF need to seriously pull finger here and get that sorted. It's farcical that this has dragged on this long. Time to put it right.

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Unknown editor edited June 17, 2023 05:04
coochiee
mrsmiis
So... verdict?

Don't blame any of that on Bazeley, I think it was very well coached. Can't prevent those atrocious lapses. Sweden took advantage of every little slip-up we had. 

Possession football looks good on us - best we've looked going forward in a long long time
Folks got the back 4 they were after, and Bazeley didn't coach the players to make the costly turnovers they did. And yipe at least the team was chasing goals in the 2nd half, not just sitting back trying to keep at respectable. Their players a class above, and were ruthless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyy25pDEFTw

But I guess that's Baze's issue. He's winning the games we expect to win - China with AWs, Guatamela with U20s - but we look a long way off those teams that have way better players than us. How do we close that gap. Is there perhaps a more inspired choice as a coach out there, given wage restraints NZF have??

At least the team will learn far more playing Sweden in front of a packed house, than next Qatar in front of a few hundred neutrals.

Edit - I would 'This' both the above post game Posts, but can't seem to.
"How do we close the gap?"
Well there's the long game ⬇️
Sweden v New Zealand - 2 x the population, but 32 x more professional football clubs. I'll bleat on about it until I'm blue on the face, but we need more professional opportunities in our own backyard. Admittedly we may have a few more teams to add to our list over the next few years, but that's where we start on our footballing pathway to improvement. Naturally our best talent will gravitate to overseas clubs as it is, and it will continue to be a nice accompaniment to the aforementioned future increase in number of teams/players. 

Grow the game ▶️ Grow the pathways ▶️ Grow the player pool ▶️ Watch the positive outcomes of this snowball into a very good national team setup.

Shorter term ⬇️
Keep organizing games against quality opposition. Get this group together as often as possible, and playing quality games. A lot of the guys in this team are going to be stalwarts of the AW's set up for well over the next decade. You add in guys like Thomas, Wood, and Singh into that too and that's got the makings of a solid national team.

Also - It doesn't need to be said by now, but get a top gaffer in to help pull this all together in the shorter term! That's not to discredit Bazeley's set up from this morning because despite the result, I liked that a lot. But NZF need to seriously pull finger here and get that sorted. It's farcical that this has dragged on this long. Time to put it right.