Review: 2nd leg UEFA U19 European Championship 2008

MATCHES VIEWED:

Spain vs Hungary

Spain (4-5-1): David de Gea; César Azpilicueta, Manuel Castellano Lillo, Álvaro Domínguez, José María Antón (Miguel Ángel Luque); Emilio Nsue, Ignacio Camacho, Fran Mérida (Daniel Aquino), Daniel Parejo, Aarón Ñíguez; Iván Bolado (Jordi Alba)

Hungary (4-4-1-1): Péter Gulácsi; Olivér Nagy, Zsolt Korcsmár, András Debreceni; Ádám Présinger; Vlagyimir Komán, Attila Busai, Bence Iszlai, András Gosztonyi (András Simon); Márk Nikházi (László Szabó); Krisztián Németh (Bálint Bajner)

Scoreboard: 0-1
Goals: Olivér Nagy (70´)

Germany vs Bulgaria (only 1st half)

Germany (4-4-2): Ron-Robert Zieler; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Stefan Reinartz, Björn Kopplin; Timo Gebhart, Lars Bender, Danny Latza, Savio Nsereko; Deniz Naki, Richard Sukuta-Pasu (Rahman Soyudogru)

Bulgaria (4-4-2): Ivan Karadjov; Tsetelin Bojida Panov (Mihail Aleksandrov), Kostadin Veseli Gadzhalov, Kristian Uzunov, Daniel Zlatkov; Todor Georgiev, Momchil Tsvetanov, Atanas Tzankov Zehirov, Radoslav Vasilev; Daniel Dimov, Ismail Isa Mustafa

Scoreboard: 0-2 (Final result: 0-3)
Goals: Diekmeier (16´), Nserenko (43´), (Lars Bender 56´)

OTHER MATCHES:

Czech Republic-Greece 0-0
Italy-England 0-0

2ND LEG BEST TEAM

Formation 4-4-2: Péter Gulácsi; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Zsolt Korcsmár, Ádám Présinger; András Gosztonyi, Attila Busai, Lars Bender, Jordi Alba; Deniz Naki, Krisztián Németh.

Subs: Ron-Robert Zieler, César Azpilicueta, Fran Mérida, Timo Gebhart, Aarón Ñíguez

One by one

Péter Gulácsi: A very solid and complete goalkeeper, he has a great potential. Tall and strong, quick in his movements, determined. Gives a lot of confidence to his team, dominates mainly all aspects of the game. Very secure in aerial balls, he always tries to catch the ball when a rival shoots or crosses, doesn´t like to give second options. Excellent attitude in pitch, always concentrated. His deffence of 1x1 situations is amazing aswell. Can convert in one of the best goalkeeper of the next 10-15 years, I bet for that.

Dennis Diekmeier: Very offensive and balanced right back, constantly moving upwards and producing dangerous situations. He is quick, has a good technique and very good ball touch. Gives depth to the team and is quite intelligent to decide the better option for the team. Deffensively he leaves his back a bit carefree, however he involves and he is selfless.

Florian Jungwirth: Excellent team defender. He never is the best of the team, but always adds up in the benefit of the team and never hides. Strong, solid and restrained full back. He always is able to give help to teammates, especially to the right back. Has a good speed and acceptable individual technique, doesn´t make life difficult for oneself with the ball, he knows that he cannot miss in his demarcation.

Zsolt Korcsmár: Solid central defender. Good physic and great positioning in the field, also has a good speed, especially in short distances. With strong body, doesn´t complicates and has an acceptable technique. He suffers in side displacement and against skilled players.

Ádám Présinger: Very good deffensive left back, he also join attack with lot of power and decision. Strong and difficult to beat, has a great tackling ability and placing in the pitch, he also is always able to give deffensive help to full back of his side and close his position.

András Gosztonyi: Constant, electric and offensive winger that can play in both right and left side, he is right-footed, so he prefers the right one. He helps a lot deffensively, falls back and constantly is running up and down. Likes to attack and face up defenders without losing time. A very dinamic and incisive player, nevertheless he needs to improve his game reading and try to be more decisive. Has very good technical ability and many skills.

Attila Busai: A "supermiedfielder", able to deffend and attack with excellent efficiency. Has more deffensive conditions but he also likes to sum to attack, from where he can try his dangerous shot. Excellent body and lot of criteria with the posession of the ball, makes things easier and doesn´t lose dangerous balls. In deffence, he intimidates and knows how to do tactical fouls. Good individual technique.

Lars Bender: intelligent and very calmed central miedfielder, has a remarkably vision and ball touch, aswell he is a great ball distributor. He helps in deffence and like to go upwards to attack, doing a great job both offensively and deffensively. Interesting shot and very good technique, runs many metres in each game.

Jordi Alba: Direct, quick and incisive left wing, he is more a player of great appearances than a constant performancer. Great ability to exceed defenders, has a special skill to change speed. Left-footed, also his crosses are very interesting. Likes to arrive to goal scoring positions. However, he is too weak and small physically and needs to improve in his deffence.

Deniz Naki: Very talented attacker. Excellent technique, outstanding vision, great touch. Prefers to have movement freedom, likes to go back to receive the ball, also falls to touchline quite often. Quick and with pace, can decide a match in any moment. Able to play individually or with teammates, has a very precise first touch and shot. Daring, has all to become a decisive world class striker.

Krisztián Németh: Distinction movements inside the pitch, he is a very intelligent striker. Constantly trying to lose one's marker, he also likes to go back and get the ball. Vey good passing skills and great team player, has goal and knows how to create goal chances. Dinamic, quick, with good technique, generous. Adores to make combinations with teammates, he is a very dangerous and excellent hitter. Shoots with intention.

Written by Joan Peris, 19 July 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com