Mexico is so bad right now. The team plays so slow and lack creativity. The European based players are playing horrible. The mexican league based players aren't doing any better. It's so bad they recalled Rafael Marquez to help out. Of course, that was a failure. The midfield is a joke. Zavala doesn't do anything. The fullbacks are constantly being rotated and none have impressed. The CBs are all prone to mistakes. Gio plays like he's handicapped by the coaches and is basically Theo Walcott for Mexico. Vela is Will Smith's father and doesn't want Mexico.
Chicharito isn't taking his few chances and he's become the scapegoat of the entire team. The fans hate him because they think a United player should be more than a poacher and because he scores a good amount for United he receives a lot of praise by Mexican media. They think a poacher doesn't deserve that much attention and they hate him for it. Even when he was clinical and scoring every game for Mexico, the opinion was diviided. Now that he's been in bad form the hate is at an all time high. it's gotten to the point that he cried after the game for missing a penalty.
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Japan is a joke right now too. Maeda and Havenaar have always been useless for Japan and now Kakitani has been useless for Japan. There is just no service for him as Japan loves to play with the ball too much and loves to walk the ball into the net. The opposition is always forced to play counter attacking football and it works every time. Their defense, not that their cbs are any good, is left exposed by the aging midfield and are always defending with the other team running at them. The other team's few chances always end up in the back of the net.
The team is basically Shinji and Honda trying to play 1-2s in hopes of finding a through ball to give to Nagatomo or Uchida. Nagatomo never gets to run at defenders and has to play a shit cross or give it back to Shinji or Endo who will play it back the cbs. The few chances Japan get always fall to Okazaki instead of the forward and he always fucks it up.
A lot of Japanese fans are doubting Zaccheroni right now. Zac should just switch to a 433 to help out the midfield and the defense. The striker is wasted in the current set up as it is.
He should also call up Usami. After playing in the Bundesliga he's made his way back to Gamba Osaka in style. He's basically going ape shit over their defenders and scoring/assisting at will.
Looks a lot like Shinji's time in J League 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3SmOxNP_Oc
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Korea looks a bit better with Ki back in the team. The defense is still a joke and their striker is still bad. Their best attackers are Koo, Son, Kim Bo Kyung, and Lee Chung Yong. They don't like playing Son as the lone striker so you can only fit 3 of them at once. Son or Kim get benched. I would personally sit Koo on the bench as he's the least effective of the 3, but he's the captain so it won't happen.
Korea and Japan's problems are almost the same. Bad strikers and bad centerbacks. The difference is that Korea has a slightly better midfield, while Japan easily has the better fullbacks. Japan has much more depth with attacking midfielders and their cbs are also better.
I wouldn't expect much (relative to their standard) from these 3 teams in the World Cup. They certainly don't look as good as the last World Cup cycle.
Two wrongs don't make a right, that there is occasionally too much video game talk and it can be annoying doesn't mean its ok to try and 'drown out' the annoyance with some of your own.
It's a legitimate point that during the international break topics are scarce, but I think the issue is that the Januzaj flood has been occurring for some months. Again I go back to the previous point that the issue is largely due to how many United fans there are and it being much more prominent. It's a difficult problem to try and solve I think
Other fans should start posting more about their team. There are a lot of United fans, but the only people that watch the reserves as much as United fans are Liverpool fans. That's part of the reason why United gets posted about so much as well. I never see Chelsea, Arsenal, etc.. fans posting about their youth. United fans simply have more topics to cover when we watch more than the first team. There's also a lot of people that complain about the amount of United discussion happening in this thread and rarely post. They should start posting more. I read more about Juve than I do certain clubs that have more fans on gaf because they actually post about their club. There's like 4 or 5 of them too. Other posters should emulate Juve gaf.
