U talking about Duric? He just kena out muscle by the Iraqi defence.
Base on last night's match, I think we have a few problems that needs to be address.
It was glaringly obvious we were losing all the high balls in the first high. I was commenting to my bro that we will be in trouble if they just keep whacking the high balls into our penalty area. If a noob like me can spot it, the Iraqi coach obviously saw it and did exactly that in the 2nd half. Not much we can do about it. For all my hatred of Bakhakki the lazy asshole and his attitude problems, he at least gave us the option to defend high balls now we don't have anyone that can cope.
Another problem was Mustafic getting overrun in midfield. We really need Haris Harrun around to partner him if we want to hold down the midfield. I think playing for the national team should also be considered NS and should be allowed to be excuse for 1 - 2 weeks. How hard is it to arrange for him to be off for a few days
Headless attack. You can really see how much we missed the 2 China born players. Qiu Li was a bit out of sorts and we were totally toothless in the 1st half. Not 1 single decent cross in. And Shahril and Qiu Li ended up having to take on the majority of the defence everytime they got the ball due to lack of support. Shaiful Esah another one. Decent defender, pretty good at attacking, cannot cross a ball if his life depends on it. It wasn't after Shi Jiayi came on that our attack kinda have some shape and the crosses started getting into their penalty area. It's like the whole team only he knows how to cross.
All the above actually points to one thing, only the 1st 11 can play. Our bench strength totally CMI. If the 1st 11 isn't on top of teams, we're screw. Most of the players are still pretty young though so there's still room for improvements
