Subject: [NT] News & Matches

Thanks all for your support, I hope I can bring great results here :-)


The fixtures for this season are:

Slovenija NT

2010-04-17: Hayastan - Slovenija (Group G) 2-3
2010-04-24: Slovenija - Deutschland (Group G) 0-10
2010-05-01: Slovenija - Belarus (friendly) 2-0
2010-05-08: Slovenija - Kazakhstán (Group G) 23-0
2010-05-15: Zhōngguó - Slovenija (Group G) 0-3
2010-05-22: Slovenija - Colombia (Group G) 1-9
2010-05-29: Indonesia - Slovenija (friendly) 2-5
2010-06-05: Colombia - Slovenija (Group G) 4-1
2010-06-12: Slovenija - Zhōngguó (Group G) 3-0
2010-06-19: Kazakhstán - Slovenija (Group G) 0-5 (walkover)
2010-06-26: Slovenija - Andorra (friendly) 7-0
2010-07-03: Deutschland - Slovenija (Group G) 8-0
2010-07-10: Slovenija - Hayastan (Group G) 5-1
2010-07-17: Makedonija - Slovenija (friendly) 0-7
2010-07-24: Slovenija - South Africa (friendly) 3-4
2010-07-31: Slovenija - Hong Kong (friendly) 14-2
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If anyone would like to be my assistant or a scout, please contact me per sk-mail.

2010-04-17 09:53 - Group G - week 2

Hayastan 2 : 3 Slovenija


My first match as a NT coach. Happy with the win and I think it was deserved, but I was not happy with the amount of good chances that were created by Hayastan (Armenia). Still room for improvement :-)
I'm looking forward to the return of Adamovic and Mocnik in the team (both injured), because it's hard to play without your best strikers. Not happy with the new injury of Ahac either...

Requirements:

Goalkeeper:
- magical (15) keeper
- excellent (10) pace
- good (7) passing

Defender:
- magical (15) defender
- brilliant (14) pace
- 18 points in playmaker+technique+passing (i.e. 3x adequate)

Central midfielder:
- 60 points in playmaker+passing+pace+technique+defender (i.e. 5x outstanding)

Winger:
- 52 points in playmaker+passing+pace+technique (i.e. 4x incredible)

Striker:
- 42 points in striker+pace+technique (i.e. 3x brilliant)

When your Slovenian player meets the requirements for his position, please send me his skills per sk-mail.
If you have a younger player (22-24 years) who is close to these requirements, than please keep me informed about the development of his skills.

If U have superdivine goalkeeper, why you searching other, and put him to play against Deutschland? BTW, defenders are too close to goalkeeper, and you should play at last 2 mid (I think about more offensive mids, not def-mids)... 1 shot in 90 minutes.. that's not positive...

In those games I play more open, because what's the difference if you lose 10:0, or maybe 12:2, but in the second case, I give at least two goals(I hope), rather than waiting for the opponent and only watch how he gives me goals.

Case: My Champions cup match, which i Lost 6:1, but I have 4-5 100% chances, little less then opponent,(talking about 100% chances) but my chances were with foot, the opponet were mostly with head.

PS: some good coach told: the quality of the football game you can see how closly defenders and attackers play in the match! (not to close, and not to far)
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I have to apologise here. I don''t think it was possible to win or get a draw, but I still should have done better.
We have injuries for Adamovic, Mocnik, Ahac, Nahtigal and Kovac, which makes things very difficult at the moment.
However, the tactics were not good at all. Defence was to deep and I didn't play with our only top goalkeeper Janzic in this match. There's only a small window where I can select him (he's playing on Fridays with the U21 and I have to wait before he's released again) and I forgot to do this...

Sorry again, I promise I will do better in the next matches. A loss higher than 6-0 or 7-0 should never happen with Slovenija...

2010-05-01 11:59 - Friendly - week 4

Slovenija 2 : 0 Belarus

This was much better than last week :-) Adamovic is back and although he's not in a good form, he scored both goals. Tactics were ok. Defense didn't give a lot away (and when they did, then Janzic made a good save) and midfield was good enough (but again an injury). Strikers were not standing deep enough on a few occasions, but overall it was a good performance I would say.
Slovenija is 43rd in the ranking and Belarus is 33rd, so got some ranking points back as well :-)

2010-05-08 12:00 - Group G - week 5

Slovenija 23 : 0 Kazakhstán


Solid match against a very weak opponent. Kazakhstán lost 13-0 (against Hayastan) and 17-0 (against Zhōngguó) before, so it was a good performance in that perspective.

The 3 last matches:

2010-05-15: Zhōngguó - Slovenija (Group G) 0-3
2010-05-22: Slovenija - Colombia (Group G) 1-9
2010-05-29: Indonesia - Slovenija (friendly) 2-5


Two solid matches against Zhōngguó (China) and Indonesia. The average mark against Indonesia was 70.3. I don't think Slovenija had that too often; an average mark over 70.0. The only negative point out of these matches is that the strikers still don't score enough. Slovenija had a lot of shots, but only a few goals...

However, the match against Colombia was very disappointing. 1-9 is too high, I believe 1-5 would have been more fair when you see the match. But goalkeeper Janzic was injured, so they scored more.

After half of the matches in Group G, Slovenija is in 3rd place, one point behind Deutschland. There is still a slight chance to qualify for the World Cup, but Colombia and Deutschland are both very strong...

Time for an update...

The last 4 matches:

2010-06-05: Colombia - Slovenija (Group G) 4-1
2010-06-12: Slovenija - Zhōngguó (Group G) 3-0
2010-06-19: Kazakhstán - Slovenija (Group G) 0-5 (walkover)
2010-06-26: Slovenija - Andorra (friendly) 7-0


The match against Colombia was better then the first one against them (1-9 loss), but they still were too strong...The other matches were quite easy, although it was a shame that Kazakhstan caused a walkover. That's not good for the goal difference...

There is still a slight chance to qualify for the World Cup, but Slovenija needs to win against Germany and that's almost impossible. And Germany has to lose their last match (against Colombia) as well then...

Slovenija has a lack of complete midfielders. Players with high defensive skills, but who are also good on their midfielder skills...Nahtigal has te potential to reach this, but is in a team without an owner :-(

Anyway, let's see how the last matches will go...