Subject: Latvija-Bulgaria

What about this match?i open this thread to talk about this match.Saturday maybe i'll go to a little vacation and i'll go away 1 hour before the match (i think that i'll go away att 11:00 and i'll return the day after)so..my comments will be sunday evening/night.

What about Bulgaria?

I think that they are the strongest team of the New Countries Tournament,for me they are the favourite candidates to will win the Cup.
Bulgaria have got 186 users and ithey have got a solid NT Structure.They have a good database with a lot of players:LINK.
If you see their NT Requirements you can understand how strong are they:

Goalkeeper
Keeper: 12 (outstanding)
Pace + Passing: 20

Defender
Defender: 12 (outstanding)
Pace + Technique: 20
Playmaker + Passing: the more the better

Midfield
Playmaker: 12 (outstanding)
Pace + Technique + Passing: 24
Defender: the more the better

Striker
Striker: 12 (outstanding)
Pace + Technique: 20

All of us understand that it's rather impossible win or draw against Bulgaria,so we must to try to get a honorable defeated.
Last match their tactic was this:

link

I saw the match against Malta,thei play with 3-5-2.For me,their weak point was the line defence,it was too compact,but Zvezdomir Dzhakuzev was little toward the GK.Vey big misake,in fact you should see the second goal of Malta,if Dzhakuzev was been "aligned" with the others defender,surely it would have been offside.

EXAMPLE:
link
black line: it indicates in what position Dzhakuzev should stay.
[color=blue size=1 face=arial]white line:[/color]it indicantes that the offside does not happen if there is a passage to the malta strikers.

Unfortunately,i think that we have not chance to score against Bulgaria,so this weak point is rather not important.

If you see the match against Malta,you can understand how technician is their striker Ribarov,i dont know how is his skill,but i'm very worried because he made a lot of dribbling against malta defenders,so it's sure that he will often made dribbling against latvian defenders too!!!

Anyway,i would like to know your opinion about tactic,i'll not talk about my decision because bulgarians could spy us,so..wait,you will see saturday!

:)))
p.s.:
sorry,maybe poor english,i'm not mother language,hope you understand!:)
(edited)

Yes we must hold our ground as good as we can because Bulgaria is a lot better then us for now... 8:0 would be my guess about result.
About tactic - I allready sent you in PM my tactic I would prefere (maybe).

But this is a good mach to improve our defence tactics and to close all "holes" in it for next maches, so that is the main goal in my opinion.

I would like to remember to all Latvian Community that today at 12:00 will be Latvia-Bulgaria.Difficoult match of the New Countries Tournament.These are the players that will take part of the match:

Squad

Agnis Murashov[color=white size=1 face=arial]...................[/color]GK
Druvvaldis Rubulis [color=white size=1 face=arial]..............[/color]GK
.------------------------------------.
Cēzars Ņiživijs[color=white size=1 face=arial]....................[/color]DEF
Tālivaldis Bodyak[color=white size=1 face=arial]................[/color]DEF
Valērijs Vestermans[color=white size=1 face=arial]............[/color]DEF
Uģis Davidov[color=white size=1 face=arial]......................[/color]DEF
Valdis Zeps [color=white size=1 face=arial].......................[/color]DEF
Roberts Perepelitsa[color=white size=1 face=arial].............[/color]DEF
.--------------------------------------.
Ģirts Zholtok[color=white size=1 face=arial]......................[/color]MID
Āris Jaunsudrabiņš[color=white size=1 face=arial]..............[/color]MID
Aleksejs Ebrejs [color=white size=1 face=arial]..................[/color]MID
Māris Dāliņš[color=white size=1 face=arial]........................[/color]MID
Anton Rozentāls [color=white size=1 face=arial]................[/color]MID
.---------------------------------------.
Konrāds Kanteruks [color=white size=1 face=arial]..............[/color]ATT
Vilhelms Astafjevs [color=white size=1 face=arial]...............[/color]ATT
Maigonis Avenājs[color=white size=1 face=arial].................[/color]ATT

BET!!!

4-0
5-0
6-0
7-0
8-0
9-0
10-0
>10-0

I think 9-0 :(

start!

stupid goal

AVENAJSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

Goaaaal 1-1

2-1

:(

2-2!!!!!!!!!!!

2-2 :D

3-2

:(

offside trap works nice :)

End of game 3-2, Latvija lost. Very good result i could say ;)

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