Albanian Football Forum

Redijupison wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 7:14 pm Berisha is the best goalie Albania has ever had and is still good enough to start for the NT. Cikalleshi on the other hand is one of the main reasons that Albania scored so little after 2016.

Albania always scored very little..

Record man is Bogdani with just 18 goals.

Yugoslav countries play attacking game and score lots of goals.

Albania has similar style to Greece (but worse).

Cikalleshi is an all time scorer and one of the main reasons we scored any goals at all post GDB era. 8 goals in 8 games for a stretch there. We couldn’t even beat Lithuania and Kazakhstan without him.

Redijupison wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2024 7:14 pm

Berisha is the best goalie Albania has ever had and is still good enough to start for the NT. Cikalleshi on the other hand is one of the main reasons that Albania scored so little after 2016.

Don't remember 1 memorable Berisha performance where I said he's the savior or that he won points by himself.

I can remember some from Arjan Beqaj like that 0-0 vs Portugal and others but never from Berisha.

He has been OK at best for Albania but he was also lucky that he played with solid defensive lines unlike previous goalkeepers who had to deal with amateur defenders.

In the 2016 euro qualification Berisha had some very good performances. I remmeber2 him bailing us out in that 0-0 Denmark draw in which we got dominated but somehow drew.

After the 2016 qualification is another story filled with mistakes.

Probable Lineup according to Panorama:

Strakosha
Hysaj Ismajli Kumbulla Mitaj
Asllani Ramadani Laçi
Asani Manaj Bajrami

With Manaj on the pitch, the game starts 1-0!

Let’s go Albania!

Princ wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 4:05 pm With Manaj on the pitch, the game starts 1-0!

Let’s go Albania!

The only way Manaj scores on Saturday is if he gets a penalty.

I feel bad for Uzuni..

Always given 100% for NT and as good a club career as anyone.

Gets discarded for EURO 24 after double digits in La Liga and not even originally called up for UNL.

After Broja ruled out, they decide to ring his phone..

Sylvinho is too cold!

Albanians were not ready for him LOL

We are the only team at this level who genuinely hand out caps for free, you will never see another B or C level team like us just giving caps to nothing players, there are really some bums who have 30 or 40 caps for us.

Most impressive thing Sylvinho did since joined Albania was changing culture around national team, if he thinks one player doesn't fit how he wants to play than Sylvinho doesn't give a shit if his name is Uzuni, Bare, Cikalleshi, Broja, Muci and if there is player that suits way how he wants to play than he brings him from Korea, Sweden, Romania. Most people around national team especially media are "pissed off" because somehow "Lojtar i ekipit kombetar" was established as profession in Albania.

Very true ^^ someone like Asani would've never played for Albania if not for Sylvinho