Macedonia 5-1 England (19 October 2010, Kumanovo)
By Simon Walker
After six months without a competitive game, Futsal squad England senior men faced the reintroduction tough and challenging back to international futsal rigour in Macedonia. The cast of England last played in April when they performed strongly and secure against Turkey and Malta. These two presentations, along with other promising results in the past 18 months, suggested that England had taken a gigantic step forward in the world of European Futsal Championship, but these two recent presentations against Macedonia indicate that coach Pete Sturgess and his men still have more work to do.
The qualifiers for UEFA European Futsal Championship are occurring in January 2011, and these two friendly matches with Macedonia are the beginning of an intensive period of preparation for team England before embarking on a major European campaign. then finally the quality performance instead of the results are what the cast of England were striving for and there were a number of positives to be taken from the shows of England, but it is also undeniable that will feel a certain degree of concern about the size of defeats Sturgess and the cast.
In both games, England started the brighter with intelligent, incisive passing good movement and ball retention, but in both halves second Macedonia were physically stronger, sharper and more fit with the team of England fading badly. worth putting in context that players Macedonians are two months into his rookie season Futsal, while the Futsal English season does not start until the end of November. It was therefore not surprising to see the Macedonians physically best prepared for these two matches.
However, it would be disrespectful to the Macedonians to suggest that they won exclusively on their fitness levels. The Macedonians are elegant, technical staff, which are relentless in the third final and the quality of their performances stressed because they are ranked 30 seats above England in FIFA World ranking. The speed of their movement and intensity of pressure used England down over the two games, and despite England were a bit rusty, the scorelines somewhat flattered Macedonians.
In fact, the first game could have and should have been very different.England dominated the first half, playing in a fast paced and forcing the team Macedonia for errors. England created and rejected a series of good opportunities during the first period, most notably when Pete Vallance stole the ball over the middle line and directed in goalkeeper with two English players in support and could not convert a glorious opportunity. England should conceivable has led by two clear goals in half-hour and Macedonia would have been very relieved that the score was still 0-0. Macedonia arose in the second half with a different game plan, deciding press England high density and reducing the time and space players England had the ball. England struggled to adapt their own tactics to meet these demands different, but still had a chance pending from the outset through Tom Obasi to take the lead while another chance one-on-one with the goalkeeper was wasted. Adequacy of England began to fade, affecting their decision-making, composure and movement and seemed that Macedonia felt the opportunity.James Dalton, goalkeeper made a series of wonderful defenses to keep your team in the game; the best of them saw him fly over your goal a goal to deny miraculously opened gamma point-blank. Dalton efforts were not sufficient, and in the last ten minutes of Macedonia game capitalised in Portuguese errors scored four goals.
The second game followed a similar pattern.England dominated possession of the first period, creating a series of good chances and resist any attack Macedonian comfortably.England captain Luke Ballinger succeeded in breaking the deadlock and give your team the lead that craved after eight minutes after a quick reprisals. few minutes later the team Macedonia reacted against the run of play with a kick well-struck that sailed on the top, after flying through a wall mounted English evil.The dynamics of the game was finely balanced this point forward with both teams to create good chances.Obasi had an excellent opportunity to give England the lead after some individual skilled game that took his defender of the past and beating the ' keeper to leave more tight angles to slide the ball into the unguarded NET only for the post to deny him.
Macedonia played the last five minutes of the first half have suffered five fouls: an even dirtier would result in a penalty of England.England failed to call this lack of sixth and neither they managed to head in half-hour all squares, conceding a goal sloppy fifteen seconds before the end of the semester. This second goal Macedonia seemed Deflate the England squad, with players who seek out flat and rhythm as began the second period and Macedonia snatching a good third goal this sparked England team, having increased its rate of working valiantly to stay in the game but fell from the player's energy levels similar to that of the first game in England and Macedonia began to dominate with some outstanding crossing movements and two goals more good to finish the winners 5-1.
Although the scorelines of both games did not reflect the intensity and the flow of correspondence, Macedonia were still worthy winners and the quality of your game indicated that England still has some way to go regularly to compete at this level. England does not help them at certain points in these two games with some uncharacteristic errors, some finishing waste and lack of physical fitness. latter hopefully will improve over the next few weeks as The FA Futsal National League season begins and the players begin to look sharper, but the profligacy in front of goal is a significant area that needs to be addressed before the team can expect to rival teams of quality of Macedonia. too often in recent times have the England team squandered good opportunities to score, and the international level, players England could learn a lot from the cruelty of Macedonia finishing in the final third of the pitch.
Preparation of the England squad for the UEFA European Futsal will see them to convene in early November for a training camp for three days, followed by two friendly home internationals against Andorra in Loughborough University on 12 and 13 November. These two matches will be extremely important for the preparation of the cast for the playoffs.
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