U20WC: Group A - NZL | USA | UKR | MYA

Keep all Group A posts, such as matchday chat in here. Fire up farken.

Herald have done a bit of a review.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/football-soccer/news/article.cfm?c_id=86&objectid=11454060

Bring the heat - COME ON YOU KIWIS - firing up!!

countdown to 2 weeks leave woohoo!!

2B can you put the names of the teams or their abbreviations on the topic titles ?

Sure can.

Match banter here? Still don't understand Rider up front but have weathered some early pressure.

Well in it now.

Cmon kiwi's play properly lol

Myanmar up 1-0 to USA!

Myanmar look a pretty sweet team so far. Goal was deserved, dominating US.

Get in

stink good header to the US 1-1

Nice goal Panama.  Equalizer.

With two games on at the same time, I want to watch one game (Argentina v. Panama) and watch the USA v Mynamar match later.

I have Sky but not MySky.

However, Sky are not repeating ANY games whatsoever.

Very poor....

They have all their extra pop-up channels -  but no football on any of them.

Two of the pop-up channels are not being used at all today until 10.30 pm and 12.30 am

Sky are such wonkers !!!

You can complain to Sky here:

https://skytv.custhelp.com/app/contactus/emailus

USA go ahead. Myanmar defence has been all over the place.

Great that they scored at least

Could well have equalised, Myanmar started & finished the game well, but US pulled their defence apart at times. Myanmar showed they are a good team. Can certainly throw away the thinking of 'draw good result for Ukraine & NZ because they'll both beat Myanmar to qualify'. Not so sure Myanmar will lose their next 2.

Anyone know attendance in Whangarei? Looked pretty good.

Whangarei attendance: 5,816

not that you deserve my help after your slanderous remarks :-p  
https://www.dropbox.com/s/foel3xgxdzlgbpd/Copy%20o...

I take it that you work for Sky...

Then again, my criticism tends to be balanced by the fact that I give Sky lots of free publicity on the tournament TV Coverage thread I started including details of Sky's current $5 offer for Sky Sport and free MySky for four months offer in June:

http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/fifa-u20-w...

Just frustrated at the poorly thought out coverage - nothing directed at you personally.

No replays of any matches at all until Wednesday I see from the link that you post.

First four days of the tournament with no replays and lots of games on at the same time.

Despite Sky having lots of pop-up channels lying unused much of the time.

don't worry when you work for SKY you tend to develop a thick skin pretty quickly and learn not to take it personally.

I don't know the reasons behind no replays for the 1st round - I'm nowhere near broadcast so I can't even begin to explain it either.  

I was tongue in cheek with my comment as well.  I know you delivery a fairly well rounded point of view.

FYI - MY SKY is awesome - you should invest :-)

I know a fair few people who work for sky (all in production). They all hate sky as well.

ah yeah i never said i hated them - infact it's a great company to work for.

we are 2nd!

This group is hard to pick.

If NZ beat Mynamar and draw with or don't lose heavily to USA, we are in with a real chance of making the next round.

I think any result is possible between Ukraine and the USA.

Myanmar weren't bad by all accounts v USA too

Fudge, didn't scroll down to see Dale's post.

My word this game is painful.

Can our boys even score in this tourno?

FFS even Fiji can score a goal.  We're doomed!

What a joy it was to see Zelalem play. Absolute masterclass. You can see why he's on the books at one of the top clubs in Europe.

Arsenal, "one of the top clubs in Europe". If you mean one of the top 16 clubs in Europe, then sure.

Whilst I agree that NZ was pretty ordinary last night , don't underestimate how good the Yanks were. Didn't have my programme with me so didn't know which of the yanks was which , but they had half a dozen players that really caught the eye. I got dizzy watching some of their strikers footwork from the touchline so god knows how some of how defenders felt ! I wonder if Edge needed a neck brace after last night.

Tactically we just seemed to have a plan of lumping it forward to whichever oompa looompa was on  the time.  Not sure where we are going to get a goal from as we don't seem to have any strikers in this age group.

The USA forwards really made our defenders look ponderous at times - big difference in athleticism between someone like Mitchell and the USA CB. 

haven't seen any of the other teams in the flesh but the USA look pretty good.

Those odds for a USA win look extremely good. I'm getting on that! 

Need to check match squads to see if they are playing the B team.

Only 15 000 tickets left for this vital game as per reports from breakfast. Come on people bring it! 

Pax  is 15750

Bugger, so much for Breakfast's info, FIFA should bribe the rest, needed to fill the cake tin

Reports from Radio Sport that Sepp Blatter is in wellington to watch the games

Or to ask for political asylum.