With memories of the golden years (80's) of the albanian football still fresh on her mind, Albania is now attempting to recreate its strong football legacy. As young players start making their names abroad, the future is looking bright for Albanian football!
Dallku wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:22 pm
^ Those are clear shots at Broja and Asllani because everyone else on the field yesterday is literally from Hysaj's generation.
Asllani didn't even play bad at all. Maybe he could've been a little more aggressive? and set piece delivery could've been better I guess. But he's a #6 and was put in an awkward situation.
Broja should be ashamed of himself..
Cikalleshi a decade older was carrying us forward, while this 20 year old superstar would hardly move a muscle!
AB definitely needs to fight more. Right now he's a striker who waits for the ball to come to him instead of going to get it. The elite strikers go get it..
Imagine if AB had Armando Sadiku's mentality. He would literally be Diego Costa 2.0
RedFootballs wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 5:15 pm
Israel are nothing special man. Off to the races? Is that how they scored their 2 goals, with stunning fast combinations?
No, it was from ridiculous blunders where our defenders passed the ball to their forwards in dangerous areas, under little pressure.
The sad thing is we can't even rely on guys like Hysaj not to do that anymore clearly, fatal mistakes from him have directly contributed to losses of two crucial games (Poland and yesterday) in the space of a few international breaks.
Sure our tactics sucked but end of the day we don't lose without those two blunders. And they were unforced.
Israel is nothing special but they were clearly the better team. They have an identity and know exactly what they are supposed to do.
Fun fact?? Their clubs actually play the same exact way as their NT. Just pace pace pace. Quick counter attacks. They are shaky defensively so they play to their strengths.
A stat that blew my mind after the game:
Israel had 8 counter attacks
Albania? 0
Away from home as an underdog that should be flipped but it really sums things up...
Albania has an amazing counter attacker (Broja) and has no clue how to use him but it can't be just him either. He needs help. Those chances he created (and should've scored) are because of his superiority he has over most defenders. No one can stop him on a 1v1.
Exactly. Israel doesn’t have much talent and on paper probably less than us yesterday but as a team they have balance. They don’t throw out four defensive midfielders and hope for the best. They actually have wingers that can provide pace and width opening the game up.
Even Di biasis Albania for how defensive it was most of the times had pace and width. A lot of the issues can be resolved with some tweaks to the lineups like 3-4-3 with two wingers. This current formation is a nightmare from a tactical standpoint. They play like a Serie C team
RedFootballs wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 5:15 pm
Israel are nothing special man. Off to the races? Is that how they scored their 2 goals, with stunning fast combinations?
No, it was from ridiculous blunders where our defenders passed the ball to their forwards in dangerous areas, under little pressure.
The sad thing is we can't even rely on guys like Hysaj not to do that anymore clearly, fatal mistakes from him have directly contributed to losses of two crucial games (Poland and yesterday) in the space of a few international breaks.
Sure our tactics sucked but end of the day we don't lose without those two blunders. And they were unforced.
Israel is nothing special but they were clearly the better team. They have an identity and know exactly what they are supposed to do.
Fun fact?? Their clubs actually play the same exact way as their NT. Just pace pace pace. Quick counter attacks. They are shaky defensively so they play to their strengths.
A stat that blew my mind after the game:
Israel had 8 counter attacks
Albania? 0
Away from home as an underdog that should be flipped but it really sums things up...
Albania has an amazing counter attacker (Broja) and has no clue how to use him but it can't be just him either. He needs help. Those chances he created (and should've scored) are because of his superiority he has over most defenders. No one can stop him on a 1v1.
It's difficult to do that when you have no width, and that's not just Reja's fault because we have no wingers anymore.
Uzuni couldn't start because he was on injections so we literally had 0 wingers in the callup available this time around. Which led to aimless passing in midfield and disconnection between midfield and attack as we had no outlets, 0 width. Makes it hard to attack and even harder to counter properly with nobody to release to.
Hysaj is so fucking terrible, I'll actually even take Albi Doka over him at that point. I don't remember Doka being this shit.
We talk about "professionals" while Hysaj keeps costing us crucial games with his shitty giveaways. The guy has 0 redeemable qualities. Bad defensively, bad offensively, can't complete a proper pass.
"Cheap things you can buy in bulk, but Bulku is priceless" Ervin Xhevahir Bulku
Aurora Bulkualis wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:39 pm
Hysaj is so fucking terrible, I'll actually even take Albi Doka over him at that point. I don't remember Doka being this shit.
We talk about "professionals" while Hysaj keeps costing us crucial games with his shitty giveaways. The guy has 0 redeemable qualities. Bad defensively, bad offensively, can't complete a proper pass.
Part of the problem is he’s not a wingback and poor at attacking. When he’s not needed in attack (like in Napoli) he’s serviceable and knows his role to be a defensive stalwart. In a 3-5-2, especially for albania when the forwards have been traditionally awful goal poachers with no technical ability and a very limited midfield, the wingbacks have to get forward to provide width to open up the play.
He’s trying to get forward and he tries to create width but he’s not very good at it. In his defense if the midfield and forwards where more technical this would create less pressure on him. This is why a team needs balance. Ideally we should be using him as a defensive stalwart giving us more flexibility to have more pure attackers in the lineup but instead we’re relying on him to create.
RedFootballs wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:07 pm
Being benched against Hungary lit a fire up his ass. He had something to prove.
He doesn't play like he has anything to prove now he's a starter...
Best performances to this day have come off the bench. Done most of his damage with NT when the opponent was tired..
AB has had some good moments as a starter too, but he lacks the strength/conditioning to play hard for full 90 minutes. More importantly, the desire to give everything on the pitch is just not there.
