Subject: [U21 NT] TES

Dharma [74250] - He's bought numerous players from me recently.
Rizzo United [4844] - He bought Govind from me last week and another player long ago who is now retired.
DrogbaTeam [43585] - He also bought my players a long time ago.
Hulde [18631] - He was the NT coach for India for the longest time and has been performing very well as Netherlands NT coach. When I have some really good players I want to sell I let him know. He passes on the word. But only the very best like recently I informed him about Suksma.

There were 3 other teams as well but they don't exist any longer
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Great, I'll save this list for quick reference.

Panama Squad



Opportunities:

1) Their defenders have very low technique which means that they might fumble the ball a lot. Though players like Austin and Palma are exceptional in defending, they are quite low on pace.
2) Sinclair seems to be low in tech and playmaking which means that our defenders can easily take the ball from him.
3) In general, the pace of their team is low while our players like Naini, Anees, Tilak and Rochan can easily outpace majority of their players.

Threats:

1) Their midfielders Pascual, Cordoba and Baloy are the most dangerous players in their team. Add to that their unearthly GK Betancourt.
2) Gordon their main striker wasn't very impressive in the previous game but we should be really aware of him (don't have data for him).

Note: Ignore the height column.
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Deep and useful study here, I really prefer this style and your advices are really important because I can work on line up and tactics while you observe our next opponent.
Unfortunately we miss Manusamy too and then I need new ideas.
This will be a surprise!
A new player or a new role? Maybe both ... let's go and see! ;)

Unfortunately we miss Manusamy too and then I need new ideas.

Injuries all around, we don't need more now. It looks like both Sundaramoorthy and Munusamy will become available at around the same time.

Simply a bad day for us yesterday as our 8 match unbeaten streak finally comes to an end. Gordon showed why he is the best striker in the Panama team as he scored 2 goals, 1 being from a penalty due to a mistake by Zev which also earned him a yellow card. On top of that, we missed plenty of one on one chances, the easiest one being that of Suksma who failed to capitalize. Surprisingly, Nikhil understanding that our forwards are having an off day took up on himself to score a goal, coming close many times before finally scoring one and beating the indomitable Panama GK Betancourt. That was when we were trailing 0-2 and suddenly after that goal, I thought maybe we can score 1 more since we were all over them in the 2nd half but it wasn't to be. Regardless of the defeat, I still think we played well when you consider the fact that we were without Sundaramoorthy, Munusamy (who doesn't play often but is a nice sub) and Tilak who got injured during the game adding to our injury woes. Tilak will not be available for the entire group stage of the Asian Cup starting next week. There were quite a few positives as well today with Rahulan making a comeback into the squad and going on to justify his place in the defence and playing fabulously well. Satwant who came in place of Tilak too played well in his debut game as he made it hard for the Panama mids to take the ball away from him because of his high technique. The best player though was Nikhil who got us that lone goal in the 2nd half and I can easily say that he was the best mid yesterday, even better than Naini.

We slip down to 71st place as we now move on to play our 1st game in the Asian Cup against Thailand.
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Seeing that our attack with Sundaramoorthy injured isn't looking too good in the past 2 games, I think we need to sharpen our spear point by bringing Zev as a forward in place of Shilpa. Thailand plays a very defensive game and our defence without Zev will not become very weak as we can easily bring in Lanka to take Zev's position. We can ask Hoodibaba how Zev looks as a forward as well. I also think Satwant can take Tilak's position. This is just my suggestion, final decision is up to you.
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KautkukP you read in my mind, I subscribe everything you said. I think we could have drawn this match. Nikhil scored finally in the end but he missed two clear chances and Sukusma too had a great chance (I really prefer him behind Sundaramoorthy and Shilpa). We lost our unbeaten streak but I can learn from this defeat and consider Satwant (a good intuition here) and Rahulan (he got better then the past) for the Asian Cup. This is very usefull considering all injuries we suffer in this period.

I really appreciate your pre-match analisys and I'm looking forward to read your post match comment. It would be very nice to see your personal marks for each players and have a stat after Asian cup: what do you think about it?

yes, this is a good idea!
Rahulan (and Dasdidar too) can play in defence against weak opponent such as Thai and we can give more power to our attack with Zev. Satwant deserves to play but probably I will chose Nikhil as a wall in front of defence and let Sukusma in his prefered place behind attackers. We will play since the beginning with revenge tactic.
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yes, this is a good idea!
Rahulan (and Dasdidar too) can play in defence against weak opponent such as Thai and we can give more power to our attack with Zev. Satwant earned a starting jersey and we will play since the beginning with revenge tactic.

Great. Our decision is further solidified by the fact that Thailand has scored just 1 goal this season(against Jamaica), 0 wins and just 1 draw (against Misr) and have conceded a whopping 20 goals.

I really appreciate your pre-match analisys and I'm looking forward to read your post match comment. It would be very nice to see your personal marks for each players and have a stat after Asian cup: what do you think about it?

Haha, I'll do my best :)

Not much to add here. Their players aren't very bad but their tactics are poor. Attack, attack and attack. GD is going to be very important.
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Satwant deserves to play but probably I will chose Nikhil as a wall in front of defence and let Sukusma in his prefered place behind attackers.

If we are going ahead with Shilpa at the front, then of course Suksma should play ahead of Satwant in the midfield. Sounds good. This way, our midfield gets stronger and our attack gets stronger as well with Zev slotted there.
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Zev has red card !

I have just realized it now... he can't play against Thai.

Lucky he will be back against Vietnam but Sundaramoorthy and Tilak won't ....

Oops. It would have been a nice experiment playing him at the front against Thailand. So now 4 players in all are out in the next game, 2 of them being our most important players. Luck doesn't seem to be with us at the moment.

If he didn't have a red Zev could be played as a fwd. I play him as a fwd quite often in official matches, even though I'm training him in def. He has 44 goals from 44 matches with 7 assists.

And since he's outstanding in def, he can be very dangerous up front.

Lanel Zev, age: 20
club: Lagends FC, country: India
value: 21 037 500 Rs.
wage: 153 750 Rs.
superdivine form
incredible tactical discipline
height: 160 cm, weight: 61.3 kg, BMI: 23.95

solid stamina tragic keeper
formidable pace outstanding defender
very good technique excellent playmaker
average passing very good striker

Average of average mark in the last 5 games:

Vietnam (Last 3 games) - 57.8
India - 43.2
Thailand - 41.7
Hong Kong - 40.7

Striker average mark in the last 5 games:

Vietnam (Last 3 games) - 63
Hong Kong - 40.7
India - 40.1
Thailand - 37.1
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