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AW v China 12:30am 26th March SS1

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
el grapadura wrote:
Can't escape the feeling that both sides have a long, long way to go before they can aspire to be anything more than average international sides.


To be fair EG these are both young sides. The Chinese squad is mostly comprised of players in the CSL (although some of those have had experience in other leagues) and a fair whack of ours are A-League.

Both hardly leagues you would say would produce above average international sides.

But it will be interesting to see how both sides develop over the next few years. I suspect if China is able to stick to its development plan and get lots of international friendlies it will catch up to us in terms of rankings.

Our challenge is to get more players overseas (perhaps after a few years getting started in the A-League *looks at mini-Judas*) with regular game time. And make it to Brazil in 2014.



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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Does anyone knows who played for China in this game?
The NZ-Website shows only the NZ-squad.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Klinge15 wrote:
Does anyone knows who played for China in this game?
The NZ-Website shows only the NZ-squad.
 
China (from): Zeng CHENG (GK), Cheng YUELEI (GK), Teng SHANGKUN (GK); Li WEIFENG, Du WEI, Rong HAO, Zhao PENG, Liu JIANYE, Li XUEPENG, Liu YU; Hao JUNMIN, Deng ZHUOXIANG, Huang BOWEN, Yu TAO, Yu HANCHAO, Wang SONG, Yan XIANGCHUANG, Feng RENLIANG, Cui PENG; Yang XU, Yu DABAO, Liu XIAODONG.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Editing the highlights now, should be up by 4pm this afternoon.

EDIT: Encoding is taking longer than I thought it would...patrick4782011-03-27 14:41:47

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
liverpoolfan1 wrote:
Klinge15 wrote:
Does anyone knows who played for China in this game? The NZ-Website shows only the NZ-squad.

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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #333333">China (from):</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #333333"> Zeng CHENG (GK), Cheng YUELEI (GK), Teng SHANGKUN (GK); Li WEIFENG, Du WEI, Rong HAO, Zhao PENG, Liu JIANYE, Li XUEPENG, Liu YU; Hao JUNMIN, Deng ZHUOXIANG, Huang BOWEN, Yu TAO, Yu HANCHAO, Wang SONG, Yan XIANGCHUANG, Feng RENLIANG, Cui PENG; Yang XU, Yu DABAO, Liu XIAODONG.</SPAN>

Thx.
But I mean not the squad, but the first eleven,changes and stuff like this. Sry for my English.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I posted the starting eleven as tipped by the Chinese media a couple of days ago in this thread.

I missed the first half so don't know if it was true, but from the players on the pitch in the 2nd half it looked about right.

Subbed were the goalie ZENG (injured) by CHENG and in the 2nd half YAN Xiangchuang replaced by HAO Junmin.


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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Huge big stadium...what a sh*thouse pitch,  made Gold Coasts look not bad however I  digress, I believe that time has now come for management to get rid of the 3 up front of players who play pretty much the same style of football and revert to a style of football that doesnt involve hoofing the ball over the midfield to strikers who to be fair dont score a lot of goals at International level and maybe look into putting in the quicker more mobile players

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Pitch is probably like that because China doesn't get much rainfall in winter (80% falling during a few months over summer).

Wouldn't think that watering a pitch during cold months with little plant growth would be a good use of water.

(Although Wuhan is central China so growth probably possible albeit slow)

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
More photos here

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
More highlights here.  A couple of AW fans @ 4:00.
 

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Junior82 wrote:
Pitch is probably like that because China doesn't get much rainfall in winter (80% falling during a few months over summer).

Wouldn't think that watering a pitch during cold months with little plant growth would be a good use of water.

(Although Wuhan is central China so growth probably possible albeit slow)
It looked like a turf disease. Would have to assume it wouldn't be to a lack of water because they will have irrigation and there's no good reason not to use it.
Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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Junior82 wrote:
More highlights here.� A couple of AW fans @ 4:00.
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Gotta love the FIFA World Cup 2002 music patrick4782011-03-27 19:13:00

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
good stuff pat
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
maynardf wrote:
good stuff pat


Sorry for the wait, my computer decided to render the video ridiculously slowly... :/

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Thanks for taking the time to do this Patrick. Was maddening trying to follow this game with my crappy internet speed. I gave up after 20 minutes, so nice to see some proper highlights.
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Chur cuzzie!
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
So is mini judas locked in for the AWs now?
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
StopOut wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to do this Patrick. Was maddening trying to follow this game with my crappy internet speed. I gave up after 20 minutes, so nice to see some proper highlights.



I even managed to get rid of the annoying blue bars :D

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Eileen Drewery wrote:
Glen Hoddle wrote:
Klinge15 wrote:
Does anyone knows who played for China in this game? The NZ-Website shows only the NZ-squad.
Knee Shin Toe
Glen apologises for that.

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Is Glen Hoddle a neo-Sky Sport commentator who got unceremoniously sacked for senile comments like that?
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I wouldve much rather have seen Chinas other keeper Slip Lee Hans start in goal to be honest
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Lee is Korean.
Hans is German.

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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
China beat Honduras 3-0. Makes me feel quite good about our result given Chinas recent run of good form
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almost 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
we would have beat Honduras 2-1 if it wasn't for Shame Smeltz
 
still I'm wondering how we would have fared against Japan.  Hope this game gets rescheduled soon.
 
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