Subject: [NT]Nederland - France

FInally, my ban ended and I can post again :)
I apologize for the last results, this new engine is harder to beat than it seems.
World cup is starting this Saturday, so we must do everything we can to "descifrate" this new engine and beat our oponents.
Speaking of oponents, we are in a group with France, Suomi and Slovensko.
Even group, I think any of the 4 teams can qualify. France is the last world cup bronze medalists, while Slovensko played a world cup final 2 editions ago (against Eesti, if my memory doesn't cheat on me :P). And, of course, in the last seasons Suomi became a very strong team.

Clockwork Orange meets Les Bleus :)

In the previous meetings:
- France - Nederland 2:1
- Nederland - France 2:2
- France - Nederland 1:0
- Nederland - France 10:1
- Nederland - France 0:2
- France - Nederland 0:1
- Nederland - France 2:4
- France - Nederland 1:1

Ad you can see, we have a pretty negative record against them, 4 lost games out of 8 and 2 draws. We must change this :D

Currently, it seems that both National Teams are doing pretty bad, we lost 3 out of last 5 games and I'm really dissapointed with this think. Also, France didn't manage to score a single goal in the last 4 games.
It appears that this game will be the "reviving" game for one team :)

I hope the Lady Fortuna will start flirting with me again, I promise I won't break her heart ^_^
Saturday, we start our journey to the center of the... sokker :) The flying dutches will skin the galic rooster!

Bad boy? :P

Good luck, i hope you find the key to beat the new ME :)

Good luck!

Will you play with van Persie or Huntelaar? :p

why not van Persie AND Huntelaar?:P

You saw what happened with that :p

will your son-in-law play?

Who's that?:P

ah, you're reffering to Mark van Bommel and current Nederland coach?:))
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LOL

How would you like us to play this game?

I've tried winger tactics in the last games, but it didn't work, wingers are 0 now, useless.
Central mids become stronger, maybe a 451 or 442, all central mids?
I'm seriously thinking about those 2 tactics.
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3-2-4-1? Maybe a bit like the Italians at the Euro's. If opponents won't play with wingers either, then 2 WB's are pretty useless imo. But maybe 3 defs is too risky.

4-4-2, MIDs are important in current ME and 1 striker to less.

Maybe you can use low wingers, deep ones are indeed sh*t now

1.30h left.

nothing to nothing.

new engine FTW.

I feel we were a bit better and maybe deserve a 1-0 win, but...
would have been 3 important points.
We still keep almost the same chances of qualifying, so we must look forward for the next 2 games.