Soccer World Cup Play: Belgium vs. Russia
***EARLY GAME***
I’ve made a small recap article about Belgium’s offensive struggles vs. Algeria in their first game:
“In the first game of the day, Belgium had some tremendous problems to defeat Algeria. I’ve mentioned on Twitter: “By playing w/ 4 pure Full-backs, Belgium doesn't have width on the wings, way too narrow = easier to defend”. This was in full display yesterday against a defensive minded Algeria team. They are considered to be one of the dark horses to win the competition, but their positioning on the field was subpar and against real top quality teams they will be prone to be exposed.”
For this contest, they will start the same back-four line and so, we can expect them to have similar problems vs. this Russian team. Russia will bring their usual conservative mindset under Italian coach Fabio Capello especially vs. top ranked teams.
Some personal notes about them:
“Russia is coached by coaching legend Fabio Capello who is a tactician master… His teams are always well organized especially on the defensive end, and this Russian team is no exception! In their qualification group, Russian has allowed only 5 goals in 10 games!
Usually, Russia has some problems on attack as they don’t have many offensive skillful players. Bad news happened just before the World Cup w/ their best player Roman Shirokov who is out of the competition due to injury! His absence is tremendous for this team, not only because he really is their best player (playmaker), but also because Capello doesn’t have a capable backup player to replace Shirokov.”
Belgium will control the ball possession but they won’t find much gaps and holes on the Russian defense especially with so little depth on the wings. Russia will try to score in counter moves and in set pieces… the problem is that their attack without Shirokov is predictable.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this contest ended up w/ a boring 0-0 draw.
“In the first game of the day, Belgium had some tremendous problems to defeat Algeria. I’ve mentioned on Twitter: “By playing w/ 4 pure Full-backs, Belgium doesn't have width on the wings, way too narrow = easier to defend”. This was in full display yesterday against a defensive minded Algeria team. They are considered to be one of the dark horses to win the competition, but their positioning on the field was subpar and against real top quality teams they will be prone to be exposed.”
For this contest, they will start the same back-four line and so, we can expect them to have similar problems vs. this Russian team. Russia will bring their usual conservative mindset under Italian coach Fabio Capello especially vs. top ranked teams.
Some personal notes about them:
“Russia is coached by coaching legend Fabio Capello who is a tactician master… His teams are always well organized especially on the defensive end, and this Russian team is no exception! In their qualification group, Russian has allowed only 5 goals in 10 games!
Usually, Russia has some problems on attack as they don’t have many offensive skillful players. Bad news happened just before the World Cup w/ their best player Roman Shirokov who is out of the competition due to injury! His absence is tremendous for this team, not only because he really is their best player (playmaker), but also because Capello doesn’t have a capable backup player to replace Shirokov.”
Belgium will control the ball possession but they won’t find much gaps and holes on the Russian defense especially with so little depth on the wings. Russia will try to score in counter moves and in set pieces… the problem is that their attack without Shirokov is predictable.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this contest ended up w/ a boring 0-0 draw.
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