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Football / Re: The US will man mark Yorke
« on: July 27, 2005, 07:31:50 AM »
The Gold Cup gave me a big insight into what makes yorke so improtant to the team and why we can't cry him down too much for the ta-ta he is playing now compared to b4 he went away. Yorke is always marked tightly when he playing for Trinidad so much so that now when he has that space is like he doh even realise it !
What Yorke does when he gets the ball is keeps it for 2 seemignly unnexcesary extra seconds where he looks slow and lazy before knocking it back or wide (to carlos edwards virtually every time in the recent matches with the national team).This creates space for edwards to run down the wing as well as makes time for the midfield to join the defence. This was the key to Edwards marauding runs in the past few games and i doubt he will look that good without Yorke's simple impact. This was also why our midfield was so slow in joining the attach during the gold cup because they didn't have time to catch up with the long ball from the back we were deploying.
I must say. i never find yorke really do much for Trinidad and that he get shittier the more years he play in the UK but the Gold Cup really let me appreciate how he impacts the team, even moreso than Edwards. as an attacking threat.
So the US must man mark him regardless of if he scores for us or not, but unlike our other players, he knows what to do when he is marked...is the rest of them who is just waste the space he create. But I believe his combinatin with Edwards(every attack comes from out right) wiill allow Edwrds to shake his marker and create the space we need to get the ball in to Stern. Hopefully we can do that 8 to 10 times a game so Stern can score at least 1 and then maybe Lawrence or Dog could score from a set piece to give us a chance !
What Yorke does when he gets the ball is keeps it for 2 seemignly unnexcesary extra seconds where he looks slow and lazy before knocking it back or wide (to carlos edwards virtually every time in the recent matches with the national team).This creates space for edwards to run down the wing as well as makes time for the midfield to join the defence. This was the key to Edwards marauding runs in the past few games and i doubt he will look that good without Yorke's simple impact. This was also why our midfield was so slow in joining the attach during the gold cup because they didn't have time to catch up with the long ball from the back we were deploying.
I must say. i never find yorke really do much for Trinidad and that he get shittier the more years he play in the UK but the Gold Cup really let me appreciate how he impacts the team, even moreso than Edwards. as an attacking threat.
So the US must man mark him regardless of if he scores for us or not, but unlike our other players, he knows what to do when he is marked...is the rest of them who is just waste the space he create. But I believe his combinatin with Edwards(every attack comes from out right) wiill allow Edwrds to shake his marker and create the space we need to get the ball in to Stern. Hopefully we can do that 8 to 10 times a game so Stern can score at least 1 and then maybe Lawrence or Dog could score from a set piece to give us a chance !
