Egypt 2 (El Mohamady, Salah) - 0 DRC FT

[oloye]

the pass needed to have been better for salah

The guy's decision making is just poor, too poor to be wearing a 9.

[oloye]

DRC nor be am

[txj]

Scrappy game so far. I dont really understand the shape of this Egypt team.
They seem to be playing 4-4-2, but their full backs are a good 10-20 yards off their line and out of position.

The starting position is different from when they are in the attacking phase.

Pushing the FBs high as Salah moves centrally to become the top striker

[txj]

Close....

[oloye]

Who reduced Egupt"s game to this dreadful display I am watching.

[charlie]

Scrappy game so far. I dont really understand the shape of this Egypt team.
They seem to be playing 4-4-2, but their full backs are a good 10-20 yards off their line and out of position.

The starting position is different from when they are in the attacking phase.

Pushing the FBs high as Salah moves centrally to become the top striker

So basically if you can score on them quickly,...they will be vulnerable to counter attacks?
Because that is what it looks like on those flanks.

[txj]

Egypt lacking quality in CM

[charlie]

Wow,...2nd time ball has found the post.
They are on to something though. They are winning aerial battles .

[txj]

Scrappy game so far. I dont really understand the shape of this Egypt team.
They seem to be playing 4-4-2, but their full backs are a good 10-20 yards off their line and out of position.

The starting position is different from when they are in the attacking phase.

Pushing the FBs high as Salah moves centrally to become the top striker

So basically if you can score on them quickly,...they will be vulnerable to counter attacks?
Because that is what it looks like on those flanks.

Not sure how scoring on them quickly makes them vulnerable to the counter.

I think they have problems in central MF and its ability to shield the defence...

[charlie]

Kai,...see classy goal from Mo Salah!
2-kondo

[green4life]

Damn. Deadly counter perfected by trez and Sallah. Simply perfect.

[charlie]

Scrappy game so far. I dont really understand the shape of this Egypt team.
They seem to be playing 4-4-2, but their full backs are a good 10-20 yards off their line and out of position.

The starting position is different from when they are in the attacking phase.

Pushing the FBs high as Salah moves centrally to become the top striker

So basically if you can score on them quickly,...they will be vulnerable to counter attacks?
Because that is what it looks like on those flanks.

Not sure how scoring on them quickly makes them vulnerable to the counter.

I think they have problems in central MF and its ability to shield the defence...

You said it yourself. Pushing FBs high in attacking phase, creates space for pacy attackers on the wings. DRC havent shown the composure and accuracy to exploit those spaces, but other teams in this competition will.

[green4life]

Basically game over.

[charlie]

The battle for 3rd place team in all the groups is going to be brutal.

[txj]

Salah!

What a beauty!!

Great run and feed by Trezguet

[txj]

Scrappy game so far. I dont really understand the shape of this Egypt team.
They seem to be playing 4-4-2, but their full backs are a good 10-20 yards off their line and out of position.

The starting position is different from when they are in the attacking phase.

Pushing the FBs high as Salah moves centrally to become the top striker

So basically if you can score on them quickly,...they will be vulnerable to counter attacks?
Because that is what it looks like on those flanks.

Not sure how scoring on them quickly makes them vulnerable to the counter.

I think they have problems in central MF and its ability to shield the defence...

You said it yourself. Pushing FBs high in attacking phase, creates space for pacy attackers on the wings. DRC havent shown the composure and accuracy to exploit those spaces, but other teams in this competition will.

You have to be able to exploit the space, still...

Here Egypt are able to use the FBs to push high and force the DRC wide players to fall back.

And when they are not doing that, they are setting traps for the counterpress and then looking to find Salah on the diagonal run from wide to the center...

The Egyptian weakness is in MF and its ability to shield the defence.

BTW, Liverpool push their FBs high upfield, as do City and Spurs...

[Tobi17]

Poor DRC, good team on paper but very poor on field of play.

[Benedict Iroha]

Any links? What bein is carry the match?

[txj]

Poor DRC, good team on paper but very poor on field of play.

Depends on the paper it was written on

[txj]

Bakambu! This is where going to China affects these guys...

[green4life]

No wonder Said was moaning like a baby. Congo chap nearly chopped off his manhood with the Kung foo kick.

[Odas]

DRC nor be am

I was expecting a different thing from DRC as compared to what (the little) I have seen of them. What happened?

[green4life]

That should’ve been a straight red on El Neny