All Whites v Belarus | Tues 13th June | 3:50am | Minsk | SS2

Belarus 1 nil up 47th minute

Corner played short to the corner of the 18, first time lob to the back post where Smeltz was trying to mark two and bundled in. 

50th min

Tuiloma on for Themi (fitness perhaps?)

Patterson on for Thomas

It's like an NZFC crowd there

It feels like we are going to concede every single corner!

we are getting bossed 

Belarus are streaming straight through us like a 3 day old curry

Playing worse in this 2nd half. Coach has no idea.

This is the Belarus B team. NZ not looking good. If teams press us, we are in trouble

that seems fitting coz we look like a NZFC side...

If we are going to play like this in the Confederations Cup, then it will be a huge embarrassment

good save, shark defending

Only been watching since 30mins in but this midfield is a joke. Rojas and Thomas are both clearly natural wingers and probably would be our most likely to create chances for Wood but they're wasted in the middle. The 5-3-2 might be great for bus parking but it doesn't really tally well with the fact that wingers are one of our strengths. No wonder we resort to long balls constantly.

is this as bad as it is sounding?

TeeDubs and ACFC would probably dispatch us easily on this form

No, it's worse

Joke of a game to watch. 

Comment of the game!

we are offering nothing going forward and nothing in the middle of the park...

Good practice for Marinovic

Wow close to scoring then.

painfully, we almost created a chance

This. I have the feeling that with the 5-3-2 it doesn't matter if Rojas and Thomas play as central midfielders, offensive mids or centre forwards, they are just wasted anyway. And also, how is Tuiloma not a starter? He's the only genuine DM we have, and vital to our slim chances of not getting totally thrashed in the Confeds

I think at the very least our midfield needs to have one of Tuiloma or Themi in it at all times or else it's just too lightweight

well that sucked and now I'm terrified for what is about to come. 

Hudson has to go. What a mess of a team the Confed Cup games are going to be a horror to watch unless a mircal happens.

LOL before this friendlies I was expecting us to get a draw or even a win at the Confeds, now I'm scared of thinking how many goals we are going to concede

The midfield needs more than weemac and a couple of wingbacks and wingers. It will be interesting to see Hudson's after match spin..

I think we need to resort back to 4-4-2. I would like to see Ingham playing over colvey and some steel in midfield. Barbar or Rojas playing close to Wood.

Another poor performance which will be glossed over with statements about building to the Confeds and how it was only a narrow loss to quality European opposition and blah blah blah.

Can we accept now that the games against the US and Mexico were anomalies and not actually indicative of some Hudson master plan coming together?

I got up early to watch that?!

My positive spin on it is that Hudson didn't want to show our hand to the Russians. We deliberately played without the ball so they couldn't see what we would do.

Ricki must be laughing his arse off

sigh

5-3-1-1 Let's go.

hmmm, the official match report media release from NZF is a bit different from what I'm reading on here...

Sounds like I'm lucky that I fell asleep at half time.

You're in dream land my friend