Jona and Araujo really stood out Ara looked like a veteran Jona box to box pressure Something Herrera could look up to
Wut Rafa played a clean game, respectable 50 some mins. He made really smart passes and organized the team. Oribe was brilliant tracking back. In one sequence around the 16th min, HH was battling with the Costa Rican with the ball and Oribe tracked back and won the ball back for Mexico. It's something he's done really well for club and country...
Ok, great. You gonna act like Hernandez hasn't done that either? Oribe also had a play when he held up the ball, turned, found Chich for a wide open run when he was fouled outside the box. He's more valuable than you want to admit.
I really couldn't care less about club bullshit...Oribe has been great for our team, so has Jimenez, and so has Chicharito...I don't get this clubbullshit when it comes to the national team...I don't care if Mexico lines up 6 Americanistas and 5 Atlistas...I'm rooting for them...stfu everyone....thanks.
bro i'm talking about the present moment. And at the present moment we players that are in better form and rhythm than Raul, Peralta, Damn. And this is what happens when you decided to go with your "preferidos" @8:00-8:20 This game is easily 4-0 minimum with the right players. this isn't club rivalry, these woeful highlights actually happened last night
I don't recall you having massive criticism of Chich in the nad game when he whiffed an open net on a deflection.
Holy shit, I got so pissed on that play. It was a complete miss after a shot that hit the post, in which he was right in front of goal.
Brmw9 is right. If you didn't have this argument when Chicharito was going months without scoring last year or missing sitters like in 2013, then you're being a hypocrite.
Sitters...lol...no mames...when fat fcuks that never play and only comment call scoring chances sitters I have to stifle a laugh...no mamen...very few scoring chances are sitters.
Agree, but at the end of the day, quite a few of those chances he missed were pretty scorable. In form Cheech would've buried all of those in a heartbeat.
He missed a Pk against Panama and a a wide open goal against Costa Rica in back to back games in 2013. Anybody who doesn't think that was a sitter, doesn't know what he's talking about, point blank.
That one against Costa Rica was a legit sitter. I remember being pissed about that one too, he denied my former boy Gullit an assist.
Nobody puts any preferidos. In the Liga MX being top of the table is not really representative of the actual quality level of a team. It's just too few games to actually be a reflexion even of momentum. If Chivas lose three in a row they'll go from 1st to 6th. Being in a National Team entails much more than playing well for a few games in the domestic league. Players get overwhelmed, players struggle to adapt to their new teammates, players let the opportunity get over their heads. You can't call Chofis for two Concacaf qualifiers when you have never called him in the past. For the same reason, you can't stop calling Chicharito because he's going through a rough patch. It's all about timing. Sometimes, of course, it pays off to bring a player on to surprise the opposition, but he has to be a special talent and you have to know him really well (as Lapuente did with Arellano in '98 or La Volpe with Guardado in '06) but even in those cases, the coaches had a long preparation time before the WC's to get them ready. Osorio is doing well by leaning on the players he knows for the "harder" matches and give more chances on the "easier" ones. It made sense that Herrera started instead of Orbelín against CR, if only because one has 50 caps and the other has 4. Same for Peralta over any other striker not named Raúl Jiménez. You know they won't melt under pressure and even if they have a counterperformance their level should be enough to stay above the water.
I agree with alot of what you said but you just named the 2 worst players of the game with Peralta and Herrera. It's hard to imagine Pineda doing worse than what Herrera did against CR. I really want to see Pineda start against Trinidad.
At the end of the day, @Martin del Palacio is a firm believer of the "Rookies win games, veterans win championships." concept, and I can't blame him for it, because some rookies just aren't ready for crucial games. That being said, I do think Orbelin can handle the pressure, and I hope to see him play against T&T.
Neither Peralta or Herrera had that bad of games. They didn't have as good games as others did but one of the best things of this performance was how nobody really had a bad game or stunk it out. Even HH.
I thought everyone had a pretty decent game. No one was woefully bad, but there were a couple that stood out. Araujo is a player that just grew into the game imo. He had a few mistakes early on but un-fvcked himself pretty quick. And then he scored so that makes him one of the standouts. Vela and Jona are the others.
Yeah, I chose them on purpose. In the end, it's hard to argue with Osorio's logic, given the results.
All stikers miss clear chances. Some just miss more than others. Bigger teams won't let us get away with those missed chances. This has always been our downfall. Look to Matador Hernandez's miss vs Germany in 1998. Elite teams no perdonan tanto. We've got work to do but our team was decent vs Costa Rica.