The different between a knockout and league tournament - Asrol's FotoPage

My Team will meet the national team this Sunday. My prediction, national team will win of course. 6 weeks of training is just not enough to compete in a highly competitive match. Besides, football is about teamwork. It is impossible within 6 weeks, all players will understand each other.

But I totally agreed with Shebby about the selection specs. He wants players who are big and fast. Most of the players whom he selected can run 100 meters in 12 secs. Pretty fast. And so many contestors were disappointed because the were not qualified because of this requirement, and many said that being fast is not everything. If you got skills, you don't need to be fast to be a good player. Right?

Wrong. For me, being a fast player is very important. Especially in a highly competitive game, (knockout tournament such as World Cup, or Euro), evenmore for olny one game like this. A knockout tournament differs from the league tournament. In a league tournament, the game will not be as fast as the knockout tournament, the tackle will be more light, the referee will be not so strict, because the tournament usually ran for almost the whole year.

But in a highly competitive tournament, the length of the tournament will be shorter, for example the World Cup will be held for a month. Evenmore, if you loose, you go home. Which makes the players do whatever it takes to win. Which also make the game become faster, and you can see that there is no use of defensive midfielder in this tournament. That is why you can see, player like Vieira, Makalele and Seedorf did not shine during the World Cup and Euro. (Seedorf didn't even selected in the Holland team for World Cup). The team need players who are fast, which means left and right midfielder are the players will contribute most in the team.

Therefore, for a one game like this, a very fast player is necessary. I remembered Shebby said when he wanted to select Kecik, he said if it is a league tournament, the boy might be selected because he is a defensive midfielder. But this is a highly competitive match, they don't need one.

If it is up to me, I might include running 1600 meters under 12 minutes for the selection. To test the fitness level. Formation, defensive 3-5-2. I know it will be bored playing defensive, but it always work for a team that being formed in a short time.

My prediction, National team 4 - 0 MyTeam. MyTeam is lacked of strickers. I mean a good stricker. Their current strickers now is not sharp enough. After 4 competitive match, they only managed to score 1 goal, and it is an own goal. Besides, their defends seldom doing stupid mistakes. But they have a good goalkeeper though.

Maybe with the support from the fan, everything can be changed. After all, football is 90 minutes. You can never predict the result until the game is over.

Don't forget to watch MyTeam vs Malaysia 7.30 pm at Stadium Bukit Jalil tomorrow.