Subject: [NT] News

1-1 draw, looks a bit disappointing after last week.

If Germany lose to Hrvatska, then you have an incredibly good chance of qualifying as long as you do not lose heavily to Hrvatska next week.

hmmm.... yeah i have to say that we were out-thought. Should've been predictable they would use an offside trap, and utilizing Hird when he is still slightly injured and in outstanding form may not have been the best, which was shown by his less than par performance..

Yeap, we are lucky that we drawed today. Österreich stoped the strong points of our tactic (by offside and backs) and they played very open with their strikers. We could won this match with a other tactic.. next match will be very important for us.
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Austria eh? :P

although bball said he spent a couple hours on NT i dont think he was fully into it, no way he would do this kind of thing when back at home ;)

My personal view is that Matthews isn't the right player for playing the 1ste part of the game..better put him in the 2nd part :)

i think we need better middies altogether :P

need to steal some off aussie...

Other game was a draw.

I suspect that even a 2-0 loss should see you qualify, a draw will mathematically qualify you regardless of the Peru Germany match.

well thats not so bad..

makes things a bit more difficult, but i have faith in bball, our defenders and our strikers!

No faith in the midfield then?

disappointing. I'm on my holiday so it's so much harder to get access to the internet. they played a perfect counter. My bad..

Oh well ,Still i dream of finishing first in our group stage. Qualifying shouldnt be a problem so we can start celebrating! Lets hope we can cause a major upset and beat Hvrstaka

It's good to see guys not constantly bombarding me. Dont worry, Hvrtska would get something different.. Hope it works.

OH btw start messaging me about what tactic to use against Hvrtska already! :)
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Thanks mr_gibbage for reminding me;

Johnny Bodger is the first Kiwi to have 50 NT caps :)

You may have lost to Hrvatska, but being able to put up a fight and admittedly being unlucky to win shows that NZ has the potential to beat any side other than Poland this WC.

I thought that was a pretty great game! Was surprised to see Croatia play a pretty defensive lineup considering it was mainly the offside trap that would keep us away from goal but they seemed to play a bit TOO offside which led to the goals by Bodger and Chadwick. Bit of a pity that Bodger's long shot only hit the crossbar but it was soo close :P

I thought our defense was slightly naff and perhaps we could've drawn if Dawkins had been taken off his centre-wing position and put as a sweeper but all in all, i'm happy with the result, well done bball!

And of course, welcome back Hird, we missed you!

Nice job bballl! Very nice game! now we must hope for a draw from Peru :)

Germany need to beat Peru by 7 clear goals to finish ahead of NZ by my calculations. Big ask really, even if they perform to their best and Peru are dire.

Perú 0 : 4 Deutschland

Olé! :)
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