Subject: Nt Vs República Dominicana(U23)

There was no options to do anything like that with the mids we had. Their strikers is the best part of their team and on par with ours so I had to cover them and using a 3 man defense was not an option IMO.
If I had used offensive wingers, it would've left an even bigger gap just ahead of our defensive mid who played crap to put it plainly.

Sadly, I cant make our players(mainly mids) better just by looking at them :P

edit: and as matt said, alot of it was down to lack of pace, we were chasing the ball way too much and not making it there half the time.
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Well Huw Gray does not lack pace at all :-)

just everything else :P

He has tech too ;)

pace is really important. I mean, in Indonesian NT, most defenders are ok at defending, but way too slow, and even if you play with very low defense, they get outran ... Same for the midfielders. Seems it is a general problem though :p

Same "problem" for every small nation I guess...

indeed !

Well, true, but isnt it weird to see that there are - at least in Indonesia and apparently also in Cymru - more young players with incredible defending and good pace and hardly any the other way around?

They are a lil better than good ;)
Not much but a bit :P

was just meant to show the 'division' between pace and tech ;)

Actually our defenders aint too bad at all and are quite rounded pace and def wise. Its our mids that sux :P

thats because they never enjoyed a stay at langhes :p