I remembered watching Japan play Brazil in Olympics game.... Japan played 11-men at the back, and toke advantage of a player collision and won the game 1-0.
At the international or professional level, I think most weaker team can hold pretty tight and preventing the best teams to score by playing extremely defensive. It really hard even for the best strikers to shoot through when the box is filled with people. Blow outs usually only occured during gaps of counter attack. Teams like Ukraine really let their defenses down against a much stronger offensive team like Spain.
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Game like those with T&T play full defensive is very boring, but it works tactically. But for a T&T fan, forcing a tie England is like a dream and nearly managed to do that. I think the fans are just glad T&T to be even able to play in World Cup.
Oh the team to watch for black horse is Czech and Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast will need to play well to simply get out of the group, but they did play quite good against Argentina, and Czech simply dominated USA.
Edited, Jun 15th 2006 at 2:18pm EDT by scchan
Edited, Jun 15th 2006 at 2:25pm EDT by scchan
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