Subject: [U21] Attila

It gives a misleading picture to look only at the strengths of our WCQ group based on the world rankings. This is because the world rankings are based on the results of previous seasons, they do not show the strength of the CURRENT national teams. I think it's worth looking at the statistics of the 3 matches played today:

Average individual marks:
55.9 Türkiye U21
55.3 Eesti U21
53.1 USA U21
45.9 Zhōngguó U21
42.8 as-Saʻūdiyya U21
41.4 India U21

First squad average value
161 646 429 Ft Türkiye U21
155 860 715 Ft Eesti U21
137 050 000 Ft USA U21
78 220 834 Ft as-Saʻūdiyya U21
73 476 924 Ft Zhōngguó U21
50 611 539 Ft India U21

So based on these, unfortunately, only the 6th best team is ours, and based on that, it will be worth evaluating all the results of our group. We achieved a very acceptable result today, and seeing the match, I think we had a chance at the draw as well.

Yes considering the current state of the team, this wasn't such a bad result.

India's average mark is pegged back by the low rating of our goalkeeper Divakar. If our GK rating was 60 then our avg mark would have been 43 and if it would have been 70 then avg mark would be 44. Since GK is one of the most important player in the team, yes we are at a huge disadvantage this season.
Divakar however did much better than Meyappan today.
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Today's match showed all the bad features of the sokker game. We dominated all along, we had more big chances, we should have won by more goals. Instead, the opponent’s single-shot went in, it was a huge goalkeeper error, but we know that unfortunately we only have a weak goalkeeper. Despite the tactic and preparing players, there is nothing to do if the ME (match engine) brings out such a result like that. I don't know what to say more than that... :( :( :(
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Yes nothing much we can do.
Their avg rating was also 43 vs our 41 and their keeper had a rating of 77. I guess that's why we didn't score.
Anyway chin up. It's just the start. Hopefully we can recover as our GK comes back and we get an outstanding jr. GK too. With some luck we can still finish 4th.

Yeah, we easily played better than them but Divakar missed an easy save. Both of our goalkeepers are unreliable currently and we need to really reassess our objective for this season. I reckon the aim should be to hold on to our top 64 ranking (which is difficult) and not get too ahead of ourselves. We already dropped 3 places to 66 after yesterday's shocker.
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I agree with you the most important in this season for us to get back 64th position.

Subbarayan is back, but Yashodhan is out for 2 weeks now.

We’ve been in a bad series for weeks now due to injuries as well.

Today, Suomi U21 will be the opponent. I didn’t want to play a U20 game because without our 21-year-old players, our team would be much weaker. Suomi has a clear chance for the match, but I was thinking that today I will test what we can achieve with a more aggressive tactics against a much stronger team. That's why we only have 4 defenders on the field today, and on the other hand, due to Yashodan's injury, we wouldn't have more defenders anyway :) So we're trying to figure out a few chances today and score a goal or two :)

Squad
1 Sarabjith Meyappan GK
2 Vikrant Kabra DEF
3 Arijith Biswas DEF
4 Manjit Pavan DEF
5 Vijay Mehul DEF
6 Tarif Subbarayan MID
7 Savio Sreekanthan MID
8 Biju Saini MID
9 Mark Varati MID
10 Raman Najeeb ATT
11 Tejas Satwant ATT

12 Mark Tarit GK
13 Ajayan Makarand DEF
14 Biju Suresh MID
15 Sylvester Surnilla MID
16 Ankan Rantidev ATT
Set pieces
Free kick: not specified
Penalty kick: Tejas Satwant
Conditional orders
Min. Condition / Action
1' red card or no player
Tarif Subbarayan on position 2
1' red card or no player
Tarif Subbarayan on position 3
1' red card or no player
Tarif Subbarayan on position 4
1' red card or no player
Tarif Subbarayan on position 5
60' always
Biju Suresh on position 8
60' always
Sylvester Surnilla on position 9
70' always
Ankan Rantidev on position 10
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Today's match vs. Eesti (Estonia) is worth watching. All along, I felt we were very equal to an opponent made up of players who were much more valuable than us. The Estonian attacks were largely deactivated by our pushed-in defensive line, which often caused them to get stuck offside. Our line of defense worked great despite the fact that this season we have somewhat few players at the right level in this part of the team. And Meyappan, compared to just being on a formadible level, is great. Divakar and Meyappan have got a total of 3 goals in the 3 WCQ matches so far, so they are two very low-skilled goalkeepers.

Attacking on the well-prepared midfield was pretty good, they played the ball well ahead. And Satwant is our tremendous value in attack. Engineer is also developing beautifully, it was super what he did today in the end with goal preparation.

It takes matches like this to make me feel like it’s worth doing so much training with players, creating tactics. Although we have only scored 1 point in 3 WCQ matches so far, considering this ability levels this is also an acceptable result.

India U21 - Eesti U21
43.8 average mark 53.8
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Amazing result, I didn't watch the full game but just our goal and Engineer nicely set it up by first dodging the Estonian defender and then shooting.

That was a great result. I think we do better against the top 20 teams :)
I think our tactics were better. We won a good amount of tackles and our passing was also good.
Satwant and Meyappan were definitely the stars.

It will be a tough match for both teams.
You made a big surprise with your tactic last week.
Good luck in today's match.

Thank you, I wish you a good match too.

Today's opponent, Turkey, was the strongest team I have played with as captain of U21. I'm sorry we don't have a better goalkeeper. Plus, even the red card came, which meant we had to play with 10 people for half time. Our defenders were smoothly overplayed, and Meyappan made mistakes we hadn’t seen from him before. There are so many positives in the attack that we had 2 chances from which we could have scored a goal, unfortunately our attackers were not successful today either. I apologize for today's result, it is a great sadness for me. In retrospect, of course, it may be smart to have to play with 5 defenders, but then we wouldn't have had that much chance of attacking, we would have gotten at least a goal or two less - IF ...
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