What was so different with the starting 11.
My post is not about de starting 11. My post is about having class and not diminishing what de team has accomplished especially so soon after dey played. De point is dat dis campaign or dis game is not about Latas. Beenie attacked from de beginning today with Glen from de start. All subs was offense we cyah say he come out defensive. Yorke did not play as deep. Edwards ventured further up and so did Me Mum. Defense was not de stamp he put on dis game. No pundit in dey right mind would give us a chance...Latas or no Latas at dis age. Comparing us with a team like Miami loaded with all dem stars is pure folly. Same for comparing us with Sven and all de weapons he has at his disposal. You are not comparing apples with apples. Any pundit in dey right mind go say T&T played better than they ever imagined.
Beenie man failed to get on de score sheets wid the Netherlands and now with Trinbago.
This is the furthest we ever got...enjoy de moment...build on it for the future...and stop acting like half of Arsenal and Manu U was playing for we on de field.
So is Beenie miss all dem chances we had today Latas included? Is Beenie dat could not string enough passes together to dominate field possesion and thus win more corners and take more shots than de opposition? You feel Latas could turn dis tournament upside down at his age? Realistically, performance wise we over-achieved. Could we have done more...always. Like de Chinese say Progress never ends even if you're de best ever. To dat end yuh could never satisfy everybody but to put man before team is cheapening de efforts of all de other players who eh name Latapy and dat is wrong especially today.
You proved my point savannah..... I'm not a Bennie basher,,, I think that I have been objective in my critizcism. We are not apples. We tried to play like an apple but we are an orange. Do you try to be what you are to de point that de fruit is no longer sweet. At best we could only be an orange trying to emulate an apple. There are more apples in Germany that England. De Germans played impecable in de first game yet still a slower, less fitter, easier to get hurt " Ballack" was introduced to temper de game. Did Latas not tempoer de game when he came on? And dont tell me Im cheapening de efforts of others because I watch de end of de game over last night and everyone game was raised when de sub (latas) came on. So de players fully appreciated de difference..
Let de players passion and body motion tell de story. Is not like Latas alone looked good for 10 minutes. De entire Team played better when Latas came on. Beenieman response was that he hopes we can have more confidence and he hit it on the head so why then did he only introduce the "confidence lifter" in de last game. Yuh mean Latas couldnt get 10 minutes in England at the right time. I think its called strategic subs. On even grounds with England in de 83rd yuh dont bring on Latapy? 10 minutes? We went pro defensive and hold out for 83 minutes and we get excited.
Guess what we defence was under pressure for dat 83 minutes. its not like we were trading blows. De dam defence was tired of people running at dey ass and surcame. What you think may have taken a little pressure off de defence? a little movement and space which creates options. What he trying to force dem into being an apple, yuh cya do that we only actually have about 3 apples on de Team and we have to rely on dem especially when we playing against apples even doh we apple a little quily.
Last question? Did de Yorke not raise his game when de sub came on? of course, he got off 2 shots and 2 runs more than he had done before and it wasnt because Latas (de sub) went and defend for him instead de sub started de movement for him to be able to do something.
Theobald Me Mum Whitley ( Yorke) All utility style players, when were we gonna attack. with winger Carlos or Avery? We just start learning dat overlappin winger business. we was still stuck in de strong man back four defence vs de modern running full backs. He start samuels de other day why not go Utility until late and then bring on super subs Samuels, Glen and Latas....
De paraguay game was de best game we played so i dont include it but on de first 2 games I believe that Beenie went to safe for too long...
Hold dem then when everything look normal... spring de trap.
