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My take on last night.

Dodgy

Dodgy

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A decent workout against, mainly, San Antonio's second string.

Hemir worked his socks off, first half, (as did Huggins, Batth and Balliard). Roberts never stopped running at their defenders but, without Amad, he was trying to do everything himself, initially and rarely beat them. Once he started to use Rigg and Huggins as outlets, we (and he) looked much more effective. Rigg was outstanding and found space behind their back four, time and time again. He's going to be some player, if he continues to develop.


In the first half, San Antonio played a thing called a high press. We'd never seen it before cos they don't have such tactics over here.

In the second half Batth came on wearing a different numbered shirt to what he wore in the first half, which caused much confusion. :lol:
Nothing much else happened, except Clarke missed a few chances and Ekwah and Lihadji are both ballers of the highest order. Lihadji worked his socks off both with and without the ball and fought much harder than I expected him to.

In all, a decent workout, though the majority were blowing out of their arses after ten minutes. The match kicked off in 103° heat and dropped throughout the game, to 97°. (I have no idea what that is in new money; about 39, I think).



*Huggins :oops: :lol:
 
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Dodgy said:
A decent workout against, mainly, San Antonio's second string.

Hemir worked his socks off, first half, (as did Huggins, Batth and Balliard). Roberts never stopped running at their defenders but, without Amad, he was trying to do everything himself, initially and rarely beat them. Once he started to use Rigg and Huggins as outlets, we (and he) looked much more effective. Rigg was outstanding and found space behind their back four, time and time again. He's going to be some player, if he continues to develop.


In the first half, San Antonio played a thing called a high press. We'd never seen it before cos they don't have such tactics over here.

In the second half Batth came on wearing a different numbered shirt to what he wore in the first half, which caused much confusion. :lol:
Nothing much else happened, except Clarke missed a few chances and Ekwah and Lihadji are both ballers of the highest order. Lihadji worked his socks off both with and without the ball and fought much harder than I expected him to.

In all, a decent workout, though the majority were blowing out of their arses after ten minutes. The match kicked off in 103° heat and dropped throughout the game, to 97°. (I have no idea what that is in new money; about 39, I think).



*Huggins :oops: :lol:
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:eek: Am I missing something here? :lol:.
 
nandos sonic sauce said:
I think I've been whooshed :lol:
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The commentator was everything you would expect from an American soccer commentator.

Huggins was injured during warm up and was replaced by Gooch but Gooch was called Huggins throughout the entire first half. The commentator even mentioned in the second half that Gooch, an American, played for us and maybe he would get a run out, which would be special for him.

O'Nien was wearing 6 and was continually described as Batth until Batth came on in the second half and the commentator said Batth was playing the second half too, but with a different number.

Of the high press, he said, "Sunderland are struggling with our high press because it's a tactic we use here that isn't used across the pond."

Belling-ham came from Birming-ham and has a brother who plays for Inter Milan, whilst Clarke came from Totting-Ham.

It was like American Soccer Bingo, ticking off every cliche imaginable.

So bad it was brilliant.
As an aside, the female commentator tried her best to correct him a few times then just gave it is as a bad job.
 
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