we have two spectaculars cb's in mantilla and Alvarez. Mosquera could go ahead and get benched by white Spanish dudes and regret this decision in a few years lmao
🚨 El defensa español-colombiano del #Valencia, Cristhian Mosquera (18), no pudo ser convocado en la Sel. Colombia Sub-20 por falta de tiempo para realizar el trámite de cambio ante FIFA ❌🇨🇴👀 Se debe a los 20 partidos jugados con inferiores de España. Los contactos siguen… pic.twitter.com/7T6STtFHuU— Pipe Sierra (@PSierraR) March 13, 2023 FIFA issue
2-0 loss right? U21 Wales vs U20 Colombia. Guessing at this age, that physicality/mental attribute makes a difference. Wonder how Yaser performed?
Still Wales suck. It's a different if you are doing U18 v U21 but at 19/20/21 you are are as big as you're going to get other than working out to build more muscle. That just doesn't seem like a good excuse to lose to FKING Wales
not an excuse. Stronger team than the one from Qualifiers. Even the subs should be doing better than this. It's Wales..... not England. Our NT needs to have some fking pride in itself
And they are probably saying 'it's not a big deal, it's not like we beat Brazil or Argentina". We need to take these matches with context but we also need to recognize anyone can be beaten on any given day, specially at the youth level. Anyhow, who the opponent is or isn't doesnt matter as much as how the game was played and how we are preparing for this WC. Sounds like their 1st goal was a defensive blunder?...need Mantilla back!
You've never watched Wales' sub 21 play in our life and you don't even know who lined up for Colombia. Castillo Tanton- Pedroza- J Palacio - Salazar Puerta - Torres Cores - Yaser- Manoyma Cabezas The defense was mostly subs. However, the problem was bloopers. One gol happened in minute 63 when Pedroza--not a starter--couldn't give a clean back pass to the GK, who didn't have a lot of time to clear it but kicked it straight into an opponent. Dumb play by a sub CB, and a tough play by a sub GK. The 2nd came in stoppage time when Alvarez--who subbed in--shielded the ball in the box waiting for his GK to pick it up. That sub GK didn't do it in time. Alvarez got fouled from behind and the gol was scored. We now know why Marquines played every single minute of the Sudamericano, and we're probably not going to see Castillo ever again. This is productive data.
bid diff between a U20 and U17.... fking Cristian Nazareth the Colombian drogba haha looked like a beast at that level because of his size. the fans and the players need to respect themselves more. Hope this reality check helps this team
I saw the game and Colombia played much better than one can think looking at the result. Wales actually had no chance against us the whole game, but then we made two ugly mistakes and they scored. End of the story
How did Yaser-Manyoma-Cortez look? I have a slight fear Yaser will try to carry too much of the team on his shoulders and step on their toes a bit...
of course there's a bigger difference between U17s and U20s but looking at the recent Wales roster many of these 'kids' are playing in England EPL/Championship professional teams, which for overall futbol development, futbol IQ, competition and even just match infrastructure is in a far better setting to be at this stage of their growth. Just the fact that there's an existing pro tournament structure in many Euro leagues for U21 specific play is a huge plus. We have sub20 players that were/are barely getting minutes in FPC.
like they've never played together.. but individually they showed their quaility. I personally dont like losing but in this case it can be good for the team to find out what needs to be changed before the WC. This is probably our best U-20 team after that 2005 one.
The first goal for Wales was a gift by the Keeper/Defense. Just poor communication and sloppy clearance. We should not see something like that in the mundial.
a classic colombia performance in other words. Nothing we haven't seen a million times before. Where did you see the game? Are you in colombia? this is more or less what I assumed happened because welsh players are generally just a bunch of brutes especially at the younger ages. what worries me is that this is supposed to be a national team so the whole point is to call up your best U20 players and if these guys are the best we supposedly have at this level, then that is worrying. fortunately this is not the final squad for the WC so anything can change. I don't even want to look up the highlights because its going to annoy me
this is definitely true to an extent, people in south america and specifically colombia still after all these years fail to acknowledge how important basic concepts within our infrastructure are. Too many people still think that talent alone is more than enough. the second point you mention is something else i've mentioned many times here, its honestly a complete joke and an embarrasment that players in colombia are just making their debut at the age of 22 and 23, absolutely appalling. There is so much talent in the country, that its almost overwhelming, the teams don't have money? fine make use of the younger local talent that is staring right at you.