HIB is simply not an attacking midfielder and it showed today. As you've noted, all of those diagrams were from the highlights where he did something right. While I acknowledge that he plays with his upper body toward goal, that was largely due, imo, to the terrible quality/play of Bolivia and the creation of space that KCH made for him. Overall, his play was poor and he did some ridiculous things imo. And that's mostly due to not playing him in the right position. Why keep someone like LKI on the bench after watching HIB struggle to truly dictate play for at least a entire half? Why not play KCH in that role and play LSW where KCH was playing? Again, the amount of space KCH was creating was unreal and afford the likes of HIB to look decent in the highlights.
Thank god KSG is out. If Bento had chosen SHJ instead of HUJ and brought in PJH from Ulsan. I would start this lineup against Colombia. SHM-SHJ LJS-LKI-KCH JSJ PJH-KYK-KMJ-KMH CHW 4-1-3-2 or a simple 4-4-2 would work too.
Hey comrades... I'm late to the party, but took some time to read through the thread... In summary IMO, all I can say is if we all got a dollar for every missed chances we'd all be millionaires. I couldn't believe the lack of quality with not being able to finish from our squad. Especially against bullivawhooo? Then there's poor Sonny out there not getting fed to orchestrate quality plays... I could only imagine what it'd feel like stepping onto the pitch of what would be to him playing with JV players. I mean let's be real. We got by with pure luck. This match should have been at least 8-0... Very dissatisfied with the outcome due to the team we played where we should have crushed them... Not Slide by with pure luck... Then you've got Bento always out to lunch... Ttangkohng... Scary...