Asunto: Israel U20

Here we go, our first match against Denmark! We will use our best players, playing in formation 5-3-2. The key is to get enough balls to our strong forwards. I estimate that the Danes will be playing 4-3-3, so our weak midfielders shouldn't be under big pressure.

There is a guessing competition on this match, so let me sum up your guesses of our ball possession:
LionCub - 46%
danielftp - 47.2%

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WHAT A GAME! We were 2 goals down but we win this game 3 : 2 with goal from the last minute! (+ we hit two times the post!)

So Anatoliy Olswog pulled our team on his club's stadium towards 3 points! No surprise, dnir 's players had the biggest support from the audience My expectations were wrong, the Danes presented themselves in 3-5-2 formation with 3 CDs. They were better in the midfield, what's more both their shots on goal ended in the net. But notice ball possession in their RD sector (our LF), it's 6.07% - 1.65% for us, we scored 2 goals from this side (and also notice the number of shots by Efraim Narkis , who played on this side). That was crucial in this match also considering our percentages in the defense.

Results of the 1st guessing competition:
Our ball possession was 54.05%, don't be so pessimistic next time!
And the winner is danielftp . So we will play the next match against strong Romania (world #10) at the Netanya Stadium (11200)! I'm sure, there will be great football atmosphere pulling our team to the next win! (And my prediction is, that the Game Winning Goal will be scored by Daniel's player, Benci Stavitski )

Next competition will be published later (probably on Tuesday or Wednesday)

Very nice! glad to have guessed wrong.. good luck next time

2nd GUESSING COMPETITION
We are guessing these three things in the match against ROMANIA (31.1.2015).

1. Number of spectators (hint: capacity of the stadium is 11200).
2. Time of the first goal scored.
3. Number of shots on goal of our team in the first half.

The manager with the closest guess in each of these three questions will receive a point. Manager with the most points will host our team's next match against SCOTLAND (7.2.2015)!

Make a guess and host our team!
(Could anybody translate this competition into your language please? Thanks! )

We switched to energy saving strategy. The Romanians are stronger (playing on the same importance level) and they were favorites of the match. First half was suprisingly very balanced with minimum shots. With romanian change of game in the half time they soon scored.

Next match will host Ariel Arena (80000).

That was an easy match against U17. Easy win without any difficulties. We send to the field 6 substitutes in the last 5 minutes just to see their rating. We continue with improving the chemistry of our best players. We had two losses before this match because of using low importance. We radically changed our plan for this season (it was mainly jonnty's work) and we focus on the qualifiers because the chance to qualify is higher than it looks like. We had very good draw (playing first with similar strength teams and we will meet strong teams at the end of the qualifiers) and stgategist jonnty, twofold medalist with the Czech PPM team

PREVIEW:
Malaysia U20 vs. Israel U20, 21.2.2015, friendly match

TEAM COMPARISON:
Malaysia U20:
World ranking: 59.
Average OR: 955.9
Average OR (TOP 11): 1089.3
Best player: Rusdi Rahman OR 1336
Goalkeeper #1: Devan Nazwan Ibrahim OR 1049, 69.2% save
Best scorer: Rusdi Rahman - 1
Results this season: 1-0-4
Score this season: 2:12
Manager (ME): leito7840 [Slovakia] (1477)
Assistant (ME): peterkovar [Slovakia](1117)

Israel U20: (with comparison in brackets)
World ranking: 51. (- 8)
Average OR: 1015.8 (+ 59.9)
Average OR (TOP 11): 1169.1 (+ 79.8)
Best player: Efraim Narkis OR 1400 (+ 64)
Goalkeeper #1: Reuven Shevet OR 1003 (- 46), 68.4% save (- 0.8%)
Best scorer: Eliah Snir - 3 (+ 2)
Results this season: 2-0-2
Score this season: 10:6 (+14)
Manager (ME): Cracken [Czech Republic] (716)
Assistant (ME): jonnty [Czech Republic] (1372) twofold bronze medalist in hockey (U17 and seniors)

STADIUM:
Name: Arena Sirap
Capacity: 39 600
Press centres: 7

Malaysia has very weak CM sector, they often use only 1 CM. In previous matches they used 5-3-2 with long balls on pretty good forwards. I thing they will use more offensive squad 4-3-3, that's why we will start in 4-4-2 (attacking through the centre). Second half is set by jonnty. It will be more offensive depending on the score in the half time.

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Israel U20:
world ranking: #49
avg OR: 1027.0
avg OR TOP 11: 1179.3
best player: 1414 Efraim Narkis
goalkeeper #1: 1016 Reuven Shevet
results this season: 3-0-3 (1× against U17)
score this season: 12:10
best scorer: Efraim Narkis Haviv Shofar Eliah Snir (3)
goalkeeper sv%: 68.8%
Manager (ME): Cracken [Czech Republic] (725)
Assistant (ME): jonnty [Czech Republic] (1381)

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PARAGUAY (7.3.2015 away)
est energy: 99
world ranking: #62
avg OR: 921.9
avg OR TOP 11: 1035.5
best player: 1154 Moises Galanti
goalkeeper #1: 992 Valentin Gago
results this season: 2-0-5 (2× against U17)
score this season: 7:29
best scorer: Sergio Braña Lionel Ruben (3)
goalkeeper sv%: 68.8%
manager: MakeleleJR [Portugal] (1081)
assistent HugoA [Paraguay] (459)

TURKEY (14.3.2015 home)
est energy: 96
world ranking: #39
avg OR: 1208.3
avg OR TOP 11: 1388.5
best player: 1576 Fazıl Kolonyacı
goalkeeper #1: 1290 Cebrail Kelleci
results this season: 4-2-1
score this season: 20:4
best scorer: Ergi Büyükerman (9)
goalkeeper sv%: 75.0%
manager: tarkan akman [Turkey] (152)
assistent XMEHMEDX [Turkey] (352)

MOLDOVA (21.3.2015 home)
est energy: 96-97
world ranking: #42
avg OR: 1026.8
avg OR TOP 11: 1169.5
best player: 1341 Răzvan Postelnicu
goalkeeper #1: 1075 Emil Buhăceanu
results this season: 7-0-0 (5× against U17)
score this season: 34:0
best scorer: Eusebiu Iureş (11)
goalkeeper sv%: 100.0%
manager: Tolyk [Moldova] (309)
assistent pannnok [Moldova] (1252)

AUSTRIA (28.3.2015 away)
est energy: 100
world ranking: #26
avg OR: 1357.4
avg OR TOP 11: 1462.7
best player: 1528 Alfons Abbrederis
goalkeeper #1: 1393 Bernhard Wilhelm
results this season: 1-1-5 (2× against seniors)
score this season: 3:17
best scorer: Manuel Ofner Kurt Weissenbacher Claus Jäger (1)
goalkeeper sv%: 54.5%
manager: firstbase [Austria] (1543)
assistent gerd74 [Austria] (1667)

UKRAINE (4.4.2015 away)
est energy: 100
world ranking: #27
avg OR: 1365.8
avg OR TOP 11: 1500.2
best player: 1607 Denys Pantyukhov
goalkeeper #1: 1531 Oleksij Muzyka
results this season: 1-3-3
score this season: 5:7
best scorer: Oleksandr Kuchmasov Anton Schypilov (1)
goalkeeper sv%: 71.0%
manager: werter7595 [Ukraine] (1445)
assistent El Nino09FT [Ukraine] (1513)

BELGIUM (11.4.2015 home)
est energy: 100
world ranking: #10
avg OR: 1263.4
avg OR TOP 11: 1446.4
best player: 1611 Emiel Roppe
goalkeeper #1: 1071 Eric Berger
results this season: 3-2-2
score this season: 11:7
best scorer: Milan Mortelmans (5)
goalkeeper sv%: 75.9%
manager: dany27 [Belgium] (143)
assistent: no assistent

GERMANY (18.4.2015 home)
est energy: 99-100
world ranking: #8
avg OR: 1414.5
avg OR TOP 11: 1522.4
best player: 1561 Sebastian Hochhauser
goalkeeper #1: 1477 Richard Neunzig
results this season: 4-1-2
score this season: 13:8
best scorer: Casimir Gruetzner (3)
goalkeeper sv%: 87.5%
manager: maburgbg [Germany] (1415)
assistent: michaelbuchholz [Germany] (1551)

If we want to qualify we need at least 20 points. Next season will be more difficult, because of playing important matches away. So to maintain the hope, we absolutely need 9 points from the first three matches. We thing that with less than 7 points after these matches it's game over. First match is against Paraguay. Although we are playing away, we are the favorite because of storgner team. Against Turkey and Moldova it'll be very very tough but we hope that with home stadium we can win. Our goal is to end with 13 points after this season.

Sorry for missing informations after the game, but better to sum it with a distance with cold head ... So we choosed 3-5-2, because we were stronger. We were better in the first half, but our players weren't able to shoot on the goal, so it was a draw in the half time. We had substitution there from -10 to 0 switch to 3-4-3 and there was a big mistake ... We both had checked this substitution twice, there were no problem, it was typical substitution many times made in our clubs, but ... here something went wrong and Snir stayed in the midfield ... We still could win, but with Yadid's red card there were only minimal chance. What's more, he'll be missing for next two matches. So we need to use Or-el. It wasn't great start but I hope it will be better and better This weekend very tough game against Turkey, which shows our ambitions ...

Hello my friend,
I see you Prepare good for the game.i wish you and your team every success.
Your presentations look good.

Hi there
I'm glad to see someone's reaction here

We were discussing the strategy all week before the match with my assistent jonnty, but suddenly something went wrong The system and the luck were against us But actually we suffer from many many shots wide, forwards aren't able to hit the target ...

By the way, good luck with Germany with your senior team

Thank you very much
I hope for a good result