Great for football in NZ but probably the worst performance by our
team this season.
Yes it was only an exhibition but LA Galaxy are hardly the
great team we made them look like. I enjoyed the night out but
never want to see us play like that again, we were poor and are so
much beter than the 1/2 pie effort we put in tonight.
And before people say 'but we played yesterday', fitness
should not really come into it, our guys are supposed to be
professionals which means they are fit, they only played 180
minutes over two days for goodness sake, hell Ive gone out and
biked for 8 hours then run an hour one day then backed it up
with another hour run the next day and felt fine.
Sorry to rant I want us to win every game we play and am
just very dissapointed at the result (not the occasion)
agreed about the result being disappointing and that the quality of
our football was below our usual
but Teza you really have
displayed a lack of understanding in your post
I note that you didn't go for an 8 hour bike ride followed by
another 8 hour bike ride -
and riding a bike is an activity that is frequently repeated on a
next day basis
professional football teams are never expected to repeat a match
activity within a 24 hour period- not least because the recovery
times from (even minor) contact injuries are longer than those for
DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness), also minor tearing of muscle
fibre is going to happen far more often in football than when you
are on your bike
finally, i would suggest you are under less mental stress riding
your bike than professional footballers are during a match - not
all tiredness is physical
in a nutshell, riding your bike then go for a run the next day
doesn't equate to what the Nix players were expected to do last
night!! (it might make you feel good about your fitness, but it's
got naff all to do with your central point -the allegation
that fitness wasn't a factor last night)