Azərbaycan dili Bahasa Indonesia Bosanski Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti English Español Français Galego Hrvatski Italiano Latviešu Lietuvių Magyar Malti Mакедонски Nederlands Norsk Polski Português Português BR Românã Slovenčina Srpski Suomi Svenska Tiếng Việt Türkçe Ελληνικά Български Русский Українська Հայերեն ქართული ენა 中文
Subpage under development, new version coming soon!

Subject: [NT] fsoler

2013-09-21 10:45:17
luck is part of the game especially against such team :).

I agree about the sub. Wai Ho has a higher defender (and form) than Zhipeng and was in doubt whom to start. I was going for him but preferred some more quality in mid and that is why I played Zhipeng to hope for some better passing and distribution when the defence is coming out.

In fact we managed to get them once 1 vs 1 like that. It was a choice and played like that. Could be Wai Ho from the start could have helped us more since their def was extremely high like ours and the playing area was reduced and we needed someone to win the ball before.. Siu Tung is a defender but he is the best player we currently have to play there. Maybe I try to change and try someone else in that position and see what happens. Yes it is how you say. he lacks PM and tech.

Thanks for your comments
2013-09-27 20:03:30
Friendly Game U28 +3 over HONG KONG vs Venezuela



VS

Dear friends,

after the very good Mini WC we had, I was hoping to play an easier match but unfortunately this was a pre booked game and again we will be facing a very strong team. RANK 35 Venezuela.

We will be playing and U28 match + 3 over. We are still lacking form and U 28 choice is difficult for us especially in Mid.

I hope we will continue with the same good performance we had these last 2 matches.

Let us hope for the best. It will not be easy but on a good note playing against rank 35 will not effect so much the ranking if we lose but will effect them for good if you keep a respectable score.

So hopefully we will end up with a headsup result.

FORZA HONG KONG
2013-09-28 09:41:23
Friendly Game U28 HONG KONG vs Venezuela 6-2

OHHHH WHHHATTT A GAMMMMEEEE!!!! Vs rank 35 and we won 6-2!!!!!!! that was something really great. 6-2 against Venezuela is very very good. We could have even scored more if we did not lose a penalty, hit the bar and lost another 3 (1 vs 1) occasions.

I think we just played the perfect game, we created a lot, we conceded as expected since they are strong. But we never at anytime were worried about the win.

The 1st 15min were superb 3-0 and lost a penalty!

This win will help us a lot in the ranking. 3 great results in a row. 2 draws and a win against 3 teams which are top 50 so we must be very happy and look positively to the future since we have still young and very good players.

Tactic wise, we managed to catch them on their def line and our strikers just did everything well. Our High def and 5 behind help to contain their strikers and winger (which I was expecting) even though at times he managed to get through and gave the cross, however 80% of the times we managed to stop him.

Let us hope we will continue on this track and try to get our rankings up as High as possible.

FORZA HONG KONG

(edited)
2013-09-29 08:08:30
We are now Rank 73!. A really good kick up from Rank 78. It will still not avoid us POT 4 in the WC draws since to do so we need to be top 62 and is mathematically impossible to do . However it is still a very nice achievement. Hopefully we keep on hanging around those places because the most difficult thing is to keep that place.
2013-10-04 21:02:51
Friendly Game HONG KONG vs Al Maghrib



VS

Dear friends,

after the great performance and result we had last saturday, tomorrow we will play against Morocco.

On paper a game which we can win but can be tricky. Hopefully after the 3 last great games and results I hope we keep on with the same performance and same results and keep the unbeaten streak. Armenia and Ireland both made it to the quarter finals of the Mini WC so we must be really happy with what we managed till now.

We have some injuries but we are with plenty of strikers so I will be doing some changes in tomorrows match. Mid still lacks a bit but I must say we improved drastically in form at least.

Zhipeng still horrible form!

let us hope for the best :)

FORZA HONG KONG




(edited)
2013-10-05 09:27:31
Friendly Game HONG KONG vs Al Maghrib 0-0

Dear friends,

today we played Morocco and we had a disappointing draw of 0-0. It just was not our day, 2 posts and 3 clear 1 vs 1 and we did not score. Some games are just like this. AT least we kept our positive streak of 4 positive results.

Tactic wise, defence I cant say a lot cause stats says everything, 0 shots against.

The problem was mainly in the attack. Usually they play high so I thought they were going to do so again like they usually do but most probably our last result made them a bit scared and moved a bit back. Unfortunately when they changed their tactic , our strikers were too back and we created lesser than we could have done if they were just 1 box more forward. Bur you cant anticipate that. It is a matter of luck sometimes as well. Sometimes games come your way with some luck others like today dont.

FORZA HONG KONG

2013-10-11 18:45:11
Friendly Game HONG KONG vs Vietnam



VS

Dear friends,

tomorrow we will be playing against Vietnam. On paper a better team than us so I am not expecting miracles. They are just back from the WC with some good results against Belgium and losing only 1-0 against Italy so it is not easy at all. Hopefully they will rest some players.

I did some changes in the tactic and some players will be changed. Top form players were given priority cause we need to keep the gap between us and them as small as possible.

We are coming from 4 consecutive positive results without losing. It is very difficult but let us pray and hope we manage to keep that unbeaten streak going!

FORZA HONG KONG

2013-10-12 08:49:16
Friendly Game HONG KONG vs Vietnam 1-2


Dear friends,

the midfield sucks and in this game it really showed. 90mins 4 different midfielder and not a single good pass to the strikers. not even 1 single decent pass.

We are really suffering there, we lack high def skills in mid, we lack form and we lack drastically players in that department.

Wai Ho dropped form and he shows, Zhipeng has been 7 weeks already with a form that sucks, the others played either acted like idiots or else have a form less than weak!

Overall a loss against Vietnam can happen but not in this way especially when they do not play the full team.

I am very disappointed today and it really sucks to lose the game with such a horrible midfield performance. The only positive player in the pitch was the GK otherwise in general we sucked.
2013-10-12 09:18:32
I think the alternative tactic, instead of mirroring the original one, could be wing tactic. Against worthy opposition it is hard for our strikers to skip through (multiple) challenges from front against top defenders.

I would't place too much blame on the midfielders as most of the time I found they have few choices of passing. The midfield was overcrowded. (5 defender + 3 def. mid)
2013-10-12 15:26:06
First of all thanks for your comments. It is nice to discuss tactical issues with people from the community especially coming from long time users.

Regarding the game, it is true it was a mirror but to a certain point.

The alternative tactic changes a bit how the strikers move. I knew they were going to play the winger so I tried (successfully till a certain point) to block his winger so once again I had to play 5 behind for that reason.

I agree on your concept of playing a winger with the alternative tactic, however, the reason why I played without a winger was because I knew they were going to rest some players so I risked that card in trying to penetrate from good through passes. Which eventually resulted unsuccessful.

I also agree with you that the midfield was overcrowded mainly when their defence was set and we were starting the ball from behind.

The problem in midfield and what pissed me off was mainly when we were winning the ball in the Defence . Wai Ho, Wing Sung (who is extremely high in passing) and Chi Man were slow in passing the ball when they had chances for through passes especially with the alternative tactic since our strikers were in line with their def line. However they were passing insanely and late.

Tactic wise I accept the fact that their tactic managed to outclass our midfield when we were trying to get the ball up from the back. So I agree that If the winger was in use, we could have maybe created more.

Your reasoning actually passed through my mind yesterday but I dumbed the idea for the reasons I mentioned earlier on and for the fact that he always plays with 5 defenders so I thought it would have been difficult to penetrate from the wing.


I also thought that Sung could have cut through all the mid with his passes (since he is high in tech and passing and to a certain point playmaking). If you notice I played him more back than usual to try to get the most of him from there since he was divine form and Wai Ho is formidable form.

Thus since Wai Ho has a higher def skill I thought maybe he could have helped in the attack by winning some balls there in front.

I hope this makes a bit sense cause I wrote a bit long. :)

Thanks once again for your contribution. I will definitely use your suggestion in the very near future.
(edited)
2013-10-19 11:29:42
Friendly Game HONG KONG vs Panama (U28 Match)



VS

Dear friends,

today we play against Panama. It is another difficult match for us especially since it is an U28 match. We struggled a bit to find defenders but I hope I managed to put in the best 11 I could and that we manage to have a good performance at least. There are some changes both in formation and tactics so I hope we will have a decent performance and a respectable result.

Let us hope for the best as usual.


FORZA HONG KONG
2013-10-19 18:35:30
The result and gameplay is acceptable. I see you tried introducing some wing-play which eventually produced a goal and some decent chances.

Maybe you should consider repositioning the strikers. There were 2 instances that a striker stands in the way of another striker with the ball. One led to a bizarre pass while the other led to a blocked shot.
2013-10-19 18:41:20
I agree , pity we lost the game in 2 mins. we lost 4 chances 1 vs 1. For some reason at times we play like idiots. Not a bad game but disappointed because we deserved at least the draw in this match.

Anyways , we had a decent performance, result overall is decent.

I will take your advice and change a bit the tactics for the strikers. We were caught too many times offside. In the 88m if i'm not mistaken he shot on the other striker while he was alone! This is what friendlies are for to try new things. Defensive wise we were not with the best forms since we played U28 let us hope for a better one next week..

Thanks for your comments and advice.
2013-10-19 18:48:07
Yes, that's one of the instances I was mentioning. If the other striker had been positioned closer to the far post, this might have been prevented.

Actually it's not your fault as these things are easy to spot when watching a match but hard to spot when making the tactic. I think you're doing a pretty good job.
(edited)
2013-10-19 19:22:14
First of all thanks mate.

Yes it is difficult cause one instance could mean that the particular player need to move in 4 to 6 different boxes to achieve such result.


I try my best. I think we had some decent performances and the fact that although we are low ranked team till now no one humiliated us despite we only played 1 match against a team lower than us.

Lets hope we keep on this way cause we will be having some tough matches still to come.

2013-10-25 23:52:22
Friendly Game HONG KONG vs El Salvador



VS

Dear friends,

tomorrow we will play another friendly against El Salvdor. On paper a match we can get something from it but it is still a tricky game.

Will be doing minor changes. form finally improving a bit in the mid so I expect some more effort there.

We need ranking points so tomorrow we really need a good performance and ideally 3 points from this game.

Let us hope for the best

FORZA HONG KONG