Its clear we're going home. The English commentator on my stream said that "NZ has shown nothing over the two legs against Peru". I have
Disagree completely. I think we've shown we can compete with nations ranked 100 levels above us, at least at home. We've shown we don't deserve our current rating, and shown that plenty of our players have bright futures. We've shown it is worth investing in the national team at least with a lot of young talent and overall things are looking very good for the next few years.
I think this Peru side will struggle in Russia. I was at Wembley for the Brazil England match, both of those teams would have destroyed Peru and us from what I've seen.
While happy with the draw in Wellington, we should have got a result there but Hudson's BS use of Wood etc nullified that option.
This is the same peruvian team that beat brazil with neymar in copa america last year, tied argentina with Messi in buenos aires, beat uruguay 2-1 with suarez this year. Same team that has finished 3rd in copa america twice in the past 10 years
We were totally outclassed today , period , they toyed with us in the first half , and the second half it was more of them getting nervous and putting the foot on the brake than us really playing better. They were already up 2-0
Only reason the overall scored was so low was due to us parking the bus in the back with 6-8 defenders. I m sure we could keep a low score against a lot of good teams if we keep doing it. However this strategy is not going to win us game , and a team with more luck can put us to shame
We have tied better teams than peru before , by playing ultra defense strategy , nothing new here.
I don`t think we can beat any southamerican team playing like this . Even a concacaf team would be a struggle for us.. Therefore we really need to change up the strategy if we want to make world cup, unless of-course we get match up with a team from a different confederation
As per the comment regarding peru vs australia. To be perfectly honest australia would put up a better fight , however these peruvian team has also played against concacaf teams and aside from mexico and usa , they never had a problem beaten them , even playing with a B team . So I would still put peru as a favorite , but Australia can def put up a good fight and beat them
Also , keep in mind the Peruvians are missing guerrero who probably has a bigger impact than wood on the field for them. Its almost like facing uruguay without Suarez. Its a totally different team. Peruvian team with guerrero would`ve beaten us much worse