Re: UEFA Euro 2012 Official Thread - Discussion, Analysis, Predictions & All News!
Today's match professor, the focus lays in today's match now. Time to analyze or else:mugi:
I'll get to it later on (though there's less to say since England-Italy is pretty evenly matched) but first, I'd get to some point as I've just watched on Telefoot where Blanc, Llorris and FFF President Le Graet talked live from Ukraine.
1. Blanc admitted that he feared the flank of Iniesta/Alba most and that it was raging that they conceded the first goal on that side despite his "measures taken."
2. Llorris said that the team still needs to grow in teamwork and that they should grow fast cause the media puts a lot of pressure on them.
These are 2 points that I obviously agree with. Especially on the media part where the France media kept underlining that Nasri gave a bad image of the National team with his remarks post-match and that he may have been been a factor that's been detrimental to France. In case, you don't know,
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's the outburst of Nasri news which is incomplete.
It kinda went like that: (I'm trying to translate it by myself from French)
Nasri: I don't wanna say anything. You just write crap stories on us in your crap articles.
Journalist: Then f**k off then!
Nasri: You tell me to f**k off? Come over there and let's fix this like a man.
Journalist: Yeah, all talk!
Nasri: Go and f**k yourself! Go ba*g your mother, you @**hole. You want me to explain myself when you don't have the balls...motherf**ker? Now, you can write that I've been badly brought up in your c**p article.
Sure, I agree that it's shameful of what Samir just did but it's saddening that France media is trying [again...] to put the blame on some player/s when it was a whole team who misplayed against Spain.
As Blanc said, Nasri is a player who bust his ass off in training but he's very sensible. Thus, he doesn't control himself in the Press which is regrettable. It's in teamplay and experience where France needs to grow; not in having better post-match interviews or celebrations.
This is something that I relate to. Football media (not only in France) just doesn't underline their own fortes and weaknesses enough. They just like to sensationalize by putting blames on players/coaches. That's sad.
Take Spain itself for example. They made a mount-hill with Xavi and other Barca's comments on Spain. This could have been detrimental to them while I'm sure, concentrating on Spain's floating defense (for example) could bring more frutious media result..
@ ReLax - We got numerous points currently in the Debates thread that's on hold. (like my question, Ballon D'Or, transfers and video replaying). Once we got rid of most of it, I'd like to analyse the pros and cons that media bring onto a National team with their exaggerated coverage? Right now, I see much more detrimental factors than positive.
That kinda resumes how poor this flank is defensively. Now, imagine how poorer it would have been if there was one player in less...
