Report: our players in their International duties

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Match: Russia 1 vs 0 Serbia
Location: Russia
Player: Aleksandar Kolarov
Duaration: 90 Minutes
Comment: Goal.com gave him 7.0 out of 10

Match: Ivory Coast 4 vs 3 Israel
Location: Switzerland
Player: Yaya Toure
Duaration: 46 Minutes
Comment: Scored a goal

Match: Montenegro 2 vs 3 Albania
Location: Albania
Player: Stefan Savic
Duration: 90 Minutes
Comment: Scored 2 goals (<a class="postlink" href="http://youtu.be/CG07LRf3sTc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://youtu.be/CG07LRf3sTc</a> & <a class="postlink" href="http://youtu.be/o9SPtAsG09A" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://youtu.be/o9SPtAsG09A</a>)

Match: Italy 2 vs 1 Spain
Location: Italy
Player: David Silva
Duration: 90 Minutes
Comment: MotM for Spain

Match: Italy 2 vs 1 Spain
Location: Italy
Player: Mario Balotelli
Duration: 31 Minutes
Comment: Started on bench and played part of Italy's winning goal

Match: Bosnia 0 vs 0 Greece
Location: Bosnia
Player: Edin Dzeko
Duration: 90 Minutes
Comment: Bosnian journalist "I would say as usual. Running a lot today, trying, having a real battle with their defense..."

Match: France 1 vs 1 Chile
Location: France
Player: Gael Clichy
Duration: 90 Minutes
Comment: Yellow carded 33' minute

Match: Slovenia 0 vs 0 Belgium
Location: Slovenia
Player: Vincent Kompany
Duration: 90 Minutes
Comment: Captained Belgium and yellow carded 64' minute
 
MCFC BOB said:
Great post.

Edin Dzeko had an excellent game tonight. I never knew he was THAT good with his feet.
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City has never used his full potential, and i'm not sure that is going to happen... Greece defenders are brutal... but he was playing with them...
 
MCFC BOB said:
Great post.

Edin Dzeko had an excellent game tonight. I never knew he was THAT good with his feet.
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I watched Bosnia - Greece and that performance was far from excellent. The greek defense was solid though. Dzeko never looked threatening. Had one good shot though.
 
Virtu4L said:
MCFC BOB said:
Great post.

Edin Dzeko had an excellent game tonight. I never knew he was THAT good with his feet.
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City has never used his full potential, and i'm not sure that is going to happen... Greece defenders are brutal... but he was playing with them...
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Dzeko's shown intermittent sparks of what he can do with his feet. His objective isn't to do slalom runs; it's to evade a defender for space. The best target man in the world by far...


Edit: Ok maybe the latter sentence is exaggerated. Should his performances reflect his ability, he would then be the best.
 
Dzeko was simply outstanding tonight. He was at leas two times better than any other player on the pitch. Did not lose a single ball, was running like a rabbit. U can see how much he improved his strength, pace and all other physical abilities, since he is at Man City. I believe that he'll do well in the coming season.
 
HellasLEAF said:
MCFC BOB said:
Great post.

Edin Dzeko had an excellent game tonight. I never knew he was THAT good with his feet.
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I watched Bosnia - Greece and that performance was far from excellent. The greek defense was solid though. Dzeko never looked threatening. Had one good shot though.
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Excellent by Dzeko's standards since his arrival to City.
 
HellasLEAF said:
I watched Bosnia - Greece and that performance was far from excellent. The greek defense was solid though. Dzeko never looked threatening. Had one good shot though.
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Bosnia played without 8 starters, Edin's partner in attack was fourth Bosnian striker. How many balls/duels did he lost? Not a single one.

Greek defense is always solid, that's only they can do.... DEFEND.
 
Yaya Toure and David Silva are creative powerhouses, no surprises there.

Although, an insight into Savic's aerial prominence is interesting. Had him down as the purely technical defender.

Mario Balotelli did impress. His finishing let him down at times though. He defeated his defender every time he had the ball. We're talking about the eminent spanish defenders here.... Had he been on full time, he would've gave a world class performance.
 
Greece is the ultimate proof that FIFA's formula is a joke, can't believe that these clowns are so highly placed there.

They played the only way they could against this "very B" Bosnian side (6-7 benchwarmers played tonight), and yet they had to keep making those little, dirty "tactical" fouls to keep it 0:0.

Dzeko was really excellent, great ball control tonight. Overall, I was surprised how calm and mature Bosnia's performance was, given the circumstances, the possession ratio was something like 61:39 in the end...
 
Reason said:
Greece is the ultimate proof that FIFA's formula is a joke, can't believe that these clowns are so highly placed there.

They played the only way they could against this "very B" Bosnian side (6-7 benchwarmers played tonight), and yet they had to keep making those little, dirty "tactical" fouls to keep it 0:0.

Dzeko was really excellent, great ball control tonight. Overall, I was surprised how calm and mature Bosnia's performance was, given the circumstances, the possession ratio was something like 61:39 in the end...
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Greece is fucking disgrace...
 
Dzeko is the best current footballer I've seen to hold up play and get free of 2+ defenders when he receives the ball. Definitely world class in those terms.

If he can bring consistenly good performances to the rest of his play, he will be immense. If not, he'll be a fit and more gifted Santa Cruz.
 
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