Review: 1st leg UEFA U19 European Championship 2008

MATCHES VIEWED:

England vs Czech Republic

England (4-4-2): David Button; Jack Cork, James Tomkins, Krystian Pearce, Ryan Bertrand; Scott Sinclair (Tope Obadeyi), Daniel Gosling (Jamie Chandler), Kieran Gibbs, Daniel Rose; Daniel Sturridge, Frederick Sears

Czech Republic (4-4-2): Tomáš Vaclík; Radim Řezník, Roman Brunclík, Jan Polák, Jakub Heidenreich; Petr Reinberk, Jan Morávek, Jan Hable (Lukáš Mareček), Martin Zeman (Miroslav Štěpánek); Jan Vošahlík (Jan Lecjaks), Tomáš Necid

Scoreboard: 0-2
Goals: Necid 54´, Necid 58´

Spain vs Germany

Spain (4-2-3-1): David de Gea; César Azpilicueta, César Ortiz, Mikel Sanjosé, José María Antón; Ignacio Camacho (Miguel Ángel Luque), Daniel Parejo; Aarón Ñíguez (Manuel Castellano Lillo), Daniel Aquino (Iván Bolado), Jordi Alba; Emilio Nsue

Germany (4-4-1-1): Ron-Robert Zieler; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Stefan Reinartz, Ömer Toprak (Björn Kopplin); Marcel Risse, Sven Bender, Danny Latza, Savio Nsereko; Timo Gebhart; Richard Sukuta-Pasu (Rahman Soyudogru)

Scoreboard: 1-2
Goals: Sukuta-Pasu 7´, Toprak 56´, Alba 66´

OTHER MATCHES:

Hungary-Bulgaria 1-0 (Krisztián Németh)
Italy-Greece 1-1 (Alberto Paloschi; Michail Pavlis)


1ST LEG BEST TEAM

Formation 4-4-1-1: Tomáš Vaclík; Dennis Diekmeier, Roman Brunclík, Mikel Sanjosé, Ryan Bertrand; Marcel Risse, Danny Latza, Daniel Parejo, Martin Zeman; Timo Gebhart; Tomáš Necid.

Subs: Ron-Robert Zieler, Radim Řezník, Florian Jungwirth, Jordi Alba, Daniel Sturridge

One by one

Tomáš Vaclík: Superb goalkeeper. Excellent in all aspects. He is tall, big and quick. Very secure and with lot of confidence in his possibilities, has great reflexes and handles the ball, doesn´t like to let the opponents a second chance. Dominates aerial balls. Future excellent goalkeeper, he will become a world star.

Dennis Diekmeier: Dinamic and balanced right back. Likes to go upwards, he is quick and has good technique, his crosses are very interesting. Selfless, however he needs to improve his deffence.

Roman Brunclík: A very solid full back. Very strong and tall, powerful and agressive, doesn´t like to make life difficult for oneself when the opponent pressures him.

Mikel Sanjosé: Great physic and good technique, can play the ball with criteria form his position. Strong and with rank, he likes to assume responsabilities. Needs to improve his placing in the field, also be more careful with his back.

Ryan Bertrand: Dinamic and offensive left back. Likes to join attack, is quick and has good technique. However, he has to try to assume more responsabilities and be more decisive. Good team player, also needs to improve individual deffence.

Marcel Risse: Excelent team right winger. Attacks and defends, run lot of metres in each game, helps a lot the right back. Very intelligent, has a good individual technique and knows how to play with teammates. Interesting crosses, contributes making "bigger" the pitch.

Daniel Parejo: Elegant and technique offensive miedfielder. Very good distributor, has an excellent ball touch and great vision. However is too cold and defends very badly, lacks of intensity, something that he needs to improve if he wants to be an outstanding football player.

Danny Latza: Deffensive central miedfielder, his job is to make sacrifices for other to shine. Tactical fouls, coverages, helps, ball intercepts. Technically is a common player, his work isn´t the creative one. Very good aerobic capacity.

Martin Zeman: Electric, quick and slippery left wing, has some interesting skills and loves to face up defenders. Quite poor physically, needs more strength, aswell delays too much with ball handling, he has to try being more efficient. A remarkably free kick specialist, his aerial crosses are very dangerous.

Timo Gebhart: Strong and constant offensive miedfielder who can play in centre or right side. Likes to lead the ball and is a complete player: good technique, passing ability , ball touch and vision. Can defend and help teammates. Has personality. However sometimes is too individualist and he disappears in some stages of the game.

Tomáš Necid: A very powerful and strong striker, has goal. Does lot of interesting movements in each match, can play and hold the ball backwards without losing it. Works deffensively and always tries to help team. However, his technical ability isn´t the better, he isn´t bad in this aspect either.

Written by Joan Peris, 14 July 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com