Canada will sit deep and be very physical. Delie may be the answer for that game in particular. Mobility will be key to the other games versus Nigeria and Germany though.
Denmark 1-0 New Zealand in the Matchworld Women's Cup. Denmark champions Denmark 7 points New Zealand 6 points Colombia 2 points Wales 0 points Colombia is leading Wales 2-1 in the other match at half-time.
10.06.11 Jeunesse Junglinster (LUX) 0-9 Equatorial Guinea 15.06.11 KNVB Talent Team (NED) 1-3 Equatorial Guinea 18.06.11 Luxembourg 0-8 Equatorial Guinea
25.6 Dominican Republic U-17 1-5 Haiti 26.6 Dominican Republic 0-5 Haiti DR and Haiti preparing for Olympic qualifiers. Interesting that DR's U-17 team got a better result than their A team...
28.7 Slovenia 1-3 Slovakia 9.8 Vanuatu 0-3 New Caledonia 11.8 Vanuatu 1-5 New Caledonia 17.8 Fiji 2-0 Samoa 18.8 Fiji 2-1 Samoa
Also: Scotland 5-0 Switzerland Slovakia 1-0 Czech Rep. Switzerland lacked Bachmann and Dickenmann, but still I didn't expect them to get trashed like that.
17.8 Lesotho 0-4 Mozambique 20.8 Croatia 1-1 Bosnia & Herzegovina 20.8 South Africa 5-0 Mozambique 23.8 Bosnia & Herzegovina 1-4 Croatia 23.8 Portugal 2-0 Turkey 23.8 Northern Ireland 0-2 Wales 23.8 Romania 4-2 Hungary 23.8 Scotland 1-0 Belgium 24.8 Austria 0-4 Slovakia 24.8 China 0-1 Netherlands 24.8 France 2-0 Poland 24.8 Ireland 0-1 Switzerland 25.8 Portugal 2-1 Turkey 25.8 Romania 2-0 Hungary 25.8 Serbia 7-4 Serbia U-19 And a few friendlies from May that didn't get mentioned: 7.5 United Arab Emirates 6-1 Iraq 10.5 United Arab Emirates 4-0 Iraq
I think Chile 3-0 Argentina was on 7th September. Other results: Preparation matches for upcoming West Asian Championship in UAE: 15.9 Jordan 10-1 Lebanon 17.9 Jordan 2-0 Lebanon 17.9 Bahrain 1-2 India 20.9. Bahrain 2-0 India Other friendlies: 17.9 USA 1-1 Canada 21.9 Scotland 7-2 Finland Other friendlies this month: 21.9 Argentina v Chile 22.9 USA v Canada 23.9 Bahrain v India 24.9 Egypt v Jordan 26.9 Egypt v Jordan 30.9 Argentina v Uruguay
Just what on earth is Jeglertz doing to Finland? Lucky for them they have an easy Euro qualifying group, because 2-7 in Scotland...I mean even Northern Ireland can manage that.
I was surprised by the margin of victory, but not by the result. Scotland are better than Finland right now, despite what the FIFA ranking says, and they've had a few good results lately.
While I don't disagree and Scotland have improved quite a bit over the past 18 months, surely some of the blame for Scotland being better than Finland must lie with Jeglertz, the new coach? I mean now your rankings have Finland at 29th in the world, behind Belgium! - at the end of the Euro at home, when Käld gave up, they had a decent claim to be top 10. They also have a normally good keeper who seems to lose her head when playing for the WNT, and Kalmari, Sjölund and Sällström are all very decent players. IIRC their youth results over the past few years aren't bad either.
Yes, I agree. Finland would normally be giving the top teams a good game, but something seems to have changed. I watched some of the Scotland v Finland game, and one of Finland's goals was scored by a Scotland player passing back to the keeper, while Scotland could possibly have scored 10 - Finland looked really poor after Scotland went 2-1 ahead. Maybe this is not just Finland - maybe it's an indication that the middle-ranking teams in Europe are closing the gap on the top teams (at last). I guess we will see how much trouble Finland are in after they play their Euro 2013 qualifiers against Estonia and Belarus next month. Ukraine beat Estonia 4-1 away, so Finland should be looking to get at least the same score at home. The match away to Belarus could be trickier than expected.
Argentina 1-1 Chile yesterday. It seems that Argentina have well and truly lost their grip on 2nd place in South America now. After this and a 3-0 defeat to Chile a few weeks ago, it seems they have a lot of work to do if they want to avoid going home with zero points at the upcoming Pan American Games. Brazil and Canada should be too good, and Costa Rica might fancy their chances.
Considering the last results in South America, Brazil is 1rst, Colombia is 2nd, Chile is 3rd and Argentina is 4th.