By grazorblade - 10 Oct 2013 12:54 AM
Watching the u20s performance against Vietnam. The full match is available on the seventeenth page of the thread in the Australian football forum on this site. I would love to hear a detailed analysis of it.
I think they probably were completing less passes than us but their speed of passing was faster. Is there a problem with our development process that we couldnt handle their speed of passing? Thats my naive analysis of what went wrong
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By GloryPerth - 17 Oct 2013 8:01 PM
It's just.... for me it's the level of the elite domestic competitions. I strongly believe that as the A-League and even, hopefully/naturally the NYL, rise, that the players entering these 'Aged' NTs will be coming from a stronger and more intense club competitions, so the leap from the domestic arena to International is not soo vast.
For instance, one of this team's defensive stars, Scott Galloway, actually one of the more experienced members of this team, being RB at the last U20 World Cup too, he was decidedly ordinary this game and one of the worst defenders/culprits for some of those goals.
This is a boy who is/was, again, a regular feature for the last U20s generation and more importantly, for Victory in the A-League and hopefully that continues this season.
But one can tell, when viewing the games, the intensity at some of these youth games and youth tournaments, is at times even superior to the A-League.
The stakes are just soo much higher and mistakes are ruthlessly punished. You CAN get away with the 'odd stray pass' in the A-League, but NOT at International level.
Our A-League teams still struggle to make a dent in the ever more competitive ACL too and so that again reflects the need for the A-League to continue to rise and meet more the intensity of that level atleast, and suddenly then all the players then coming from the A-League, who reach A-League level, will then be considered more capable of handling these more intense, high stakes, fixtures and tournaments.
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