Review: 3rd leg UEFA U19 European Championship 2008

MATCHES VIEWED:

Italy vs Czech Republic

Czech Republic (4-4-2): Tomáš Vaclík; Radim Řezník, Jan Polák, Miroslav Štěpánek, Jan Lecjaks; Petr Reinberk (Petr Wojnar), Lukáš Mareček, Jan Morávek, Martin Zeman; Jan Vošahlík (Libor Kozák), Tomáš Necid

Italy (4-3-3): Vincenzo Fiorillo; Giovanni Formiconi (Domenico Marchetti), Matteo Darmian, Matteo Bruscagin, Michelangelo Albertazzi; Andrea Poli, Andrea Mazzarani, Silvano Raggio Garibaldi; Alberto Paloschi (Domenico Marchetti), Stefano Okaka Chuka, Fernando Martin Forestieri (Giacomo Bonaventura)

Scoreboard: 4-3
Goals: Poli 21´, Necid 22´, Bonaventura 56´, Moravek 57´, Paloschi 70´, Poli 79´, Moravek 85´

Germany vs Hungary

Germany (4-4-1-1): Ron-Robert Zieler; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, Stefan Reinartz (Ömer Toprak), Björn Kopplin; Marcel Risse, Lars Bender (Danny Latza), Sven Bender, Savio Nsereko (Bastian Oczipka); Timo Gebhart; Deniz Naki

Hungary (4-2-3-1): Péter Pokorni; Adrián Szekeres, Dániel Lengyel, András Debreceni, Ádám Présinger; András Gál, Bence Iszlai (Attila Busai); Bálint Bajner (Olivér Nagy) (András Gosztonyi), Márk Nikházi, László Szabó; András Simon

Scoreboard: 2-1
Goals: Reinartz 35´, Simon 73´, Risse 75´

OTHER MATCHES

England-Greece 3-0 (Benjamin Mee, Frederick Sears, Daniel Sturridge)
Spain-Bulgaria 4-0 (Aarón Ñíguez, Emilio Nsue, Emilio Nsue, Fran Mérida)

3RD LEG BEST TEAM

Formation 4-3-3: Tomáš Vaclík; Dennis Diekmeier, Florian Jungwirth, András Debreceni, Björn Kopplin; Andrea Poli, Lars Bender, Jan Morávek; Alberto Paloschi, Tomáš Necid, Deniz Naki

Subs: Vincenzo Fiorillo, Matteo Darmian, Bence Iszlai, Marcel Risse, Stefano Okaka Chuka

One by one

Tomáš Vaclík: He received four goals, but he couldn´t do much more in any of them. Impressive physic, excellent placing down the goal, quick movements, always alert to game, agile. Goes to floor without hesitation and defendes very well 1x1 against rival attackers. Very complete goalkeeper, gives lot of confidence to the team.

Dennis Diekmeier: Right back, less offensive than other days, he is decisive in Germany form his position. Lot of criteria with and without the ball, excellent passing ability, likes to arrive to end of pitch and pass back for second line teammates to reach ball with less opposition. Inteligent, able to send very good crosses.

Florian Jungwirth: Strong, hard and concentrated central defender, with good speed and aerial game, can collide with an opponent without dilema. However, he is a clean player and always tries to get the ball, if not is intelligent to make tactical fouls. Achieve success without showing off. Sometimes he needs to be more careful with the space he leaves at his back.

András Debreceni: Solid, tall and calmed full back. A mid-level team player, always gives his best inside the field and does not get complicated. Hasn´t got a high speed, however he does it quite well in short distances, suffers much more with advanced defense. Likes to advance the striker and is sticky in coverage.

Björn Kopplin: Is playing as left back, can do it also in the right side, his natural position. Quick, active and aggresive, gives all what he has in the pitch, lacks of a bit of quality with ball.

Andrea Poli: Offensive miedfielder with great technique and passing ability, enjoys going forward and has a good shot. Intelligent, active and aggresive without ball, lot of criteria and quality with it. Magnificent ball touch, selfless, quick, very skillfull. Receives lot of fouls. Needs to gain regularity, gain deffensive strength and improve his physic, however, he knows how to use it quite well.

Lars Bender: Very efficient and secure central miedfilder. Has remarkably vision and doesn´t risk balls, is rare to see him losing one. Contributes in both deffensive and offensive ways, he is involved in game. Dinamic and with very good individual technique. Enjoys playing the easier, which is very beneficial for his team.

Jan Morávek: Central miedfielder who prefers attacking and being near opposing area. Very good individual technique and vision, can give a teammate a assist in any moment. Balanced, also enjoys arriving to area in movement and shooting. Good distributor and quick, needs to improve his deffensive level.

Alberto Paloschi: Very intelligent striker, he is a specialist losing one's marker, his movements always create problems to adversary defenses. Mobile and with outstanding technique, doesn´t think too much when he can shoot and has goal. Quick and decisve, nevertheless he is intermittent, a player of brilliant appearances.

Tomáš Necid: Very useful team striker. Excellent body, can play right to goal or giving the back and taking down the ball for a teammate to get benefit of the situation. Knows how to create goal opportunities, however lacks of some quality in last metres. His technique isn´t the best.

Deniz Naki: Awesome player, he is going to be a football star. Mobile, with otstanding individual technique and vision. Provokes lot of fouls in each game, he is very skilful and has many resources. In any moment can decide a match. Physically balanced, flexible and quick. Intelligent, with interesting shot and killer instinct. Doesn´t help too much deffensively.

Written by Joan Peris, 21 July 2008. hoeman5beta@hotmail.com