Canadians abroad: February 24 - March 1, 2012

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[tarnado]

France - National

Nimes (Al-Shaibani) 0 - 0 Cherbourg
Haidar was in the squad but no word on whether he played yet.



Germany - Regionalliga

Lotte 1 - 0 Mainz II (Hoilett)
Janeil Hoilett was an unused sub.

Wiedenbruck 3 - 1 Fortuna Dusseldorf II
Justin Maheu played the second 45 minutes for Dusseldorf reserves in the German 4th Div.



Netherlands - Eerste Divisie


Apeldoorn 3 - 2 Veendam (Marello)
Alexander Marello was on the bench but not used.

Telstar (Ornoch) 0 - 3 Zwolle
Andrew is not back in the squad.



Friendly

Mariehamn (Trafford) 2 - 3 Flora

[tarnado]

Australia

Perth Glory 0 - 3 Brisbane Roar, Issey Nakajima Farran came on in the 75th.


3. Liga

Regensburg 2 - 1 Wehen (Ledgerwood)


2. Bundesliga

Greuther Furth 6 - 2 Bochum, Occean played the full 90.


Bundesliga

Köln 0 - 2 Bayer Leverkusen, Mckenna played 90 minutes in another loss for Cologne.


Turkey

Manisaspor 0 - 2 Gaziantepspor, Klukowski starts at his usual left back and played 90 minutes.



Conference

Eastleigh (Appiah) 3 - 1 Truro


Conference Premier

Ebbsfleet (Smith) 1 - 2 Southport


League One

Preston 0 - 0 Walsall, Iain Hume made his return in the 65th minute.


Scotland

St Johnstone (Haber) 3 - 1 Dunfermline, Marcus Haber off the bench in the 76th minute.


Championship

Burnley 1 - 3 Millwall, Edgar played yet another 90 minutes for Burnley



English Premier League


Man City 3 - 0 Blackburn , Junior Hoilett played 90 minutes as City dominated the ball.

[Bertuzzi44]

^Thanks for the updates!

[BearcatSA]

Championship

Burnley 1 - 3 Millwall, Edgar played yet another 90 minutes for Burnley

Sounds like he had a forgettable match according to the fans' players rating FWTW:

http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php...mid=2115250224

[nolando]

Sounds like he had a forgettable match according to the fans' players rating FWTW:

http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php...mid=2115250224

"Edgar - 6 - Bad error for the first goal, although others should have done more to mitigate it and it was a consequence of playing out of position on the left of the two centre halves. Used the ball OK as the game progressed."

Sums up the comments. Was he playing LB?

[jpg75]

Bundesliga

Köln 0 - 2 Bayer Leverkusen, Mckenna played 90 minutes in another loss for Cologne.

Big Kev was caught ball watching on the first goal as the man he was marking scored the opener. The cross/set piece (i think it was a corner, but i might be mistaken, i saw the replay as the ball was being crossed in but from the marking it looked like a corner or FK) was driven to the far post where it was headed back across the area to the near post and headed by a Leverkusen attacker off the inside of the post. The rebound fell in front of the open goal and Kev's man scored. Also, at minute 33 he had the ball stripped which led to a dangerous counter attack for Leverkusen. In the 44th he did well to cover for his partner and snuff out a breakaway.

[tarnado]

"Edgar - 6 - Bad error for the first goal, although others should have done more to mitigate it and it was a consequence of playing out of position on the left of the two centre halves. Used the ball OK as the game progressed."[/I]

Sums up the comments. Was he playing LB?

others said :

Edgar 6. Very little protection in front of him

Edgar 5 - losses of concentration

[BearcatSA]

Like I said, you can take the comments for what they are worth. I was under the impression that he was the left CB, with Duff (voted by some there as the MOTM) as his partner.

[Grizzly]

Big Kev was caught ball watching on the first goal as the man he was marking scored the opener. The cross/set piece (i think it was a corner, but i might be mistaken, i saw the replay as the ball was being crossed in but from the marking it looked like a corner or FK) was driven to the far post where it was headed back across the area to the near post and headed by a Leverkusen attacker off the inside of the post. The rebound fell in front of the open goal and Kev's man scored. Also, at minute 33 he had the ball stripped which led to a dangerous counter attack for Leverkusen. In the 44th he did well to cover for his partner and snuff out a breakaway.

He was more or less at fault on the second goal as well. The guy who had the ball deked out the midfielder a bit but the midfielder was in a position where he could recover. Kev, however, goes towards the ball carrier and puts himself in a position where he couldn't do much of anything since he can not take a man and is not pressuring the ball carrier either. Another attacker runs behind Kev into the area he just vacated, the ball carrier passes him the ball and he is alone on the keeper and scores.

And you are right on the first goal he just watches the ball and does not move to a useful position where he can negate any attacker. Indeed watching the ball is a particular bad habit of Kevin as you can see in many of the goals this year for which he bore responsibility. What makes it even worse is that he is not very fast and his anticipation of what is going to happen is often poor. Plus, as you can see in the 2nd goal, when he gets beat he stands and watches the play instead of busting his ass to get back. Considering the nice finish he would not have been able to stop goal number 2 if he had hustled back instead of stopping and watching but had the finish not been clinical he was in no position to prevent an attacker getting the rebound.

Kevin also had a poor game last week in Koln's loss to Nurnberg. Kicker rated him a 5 which is quite bad and I suspect he will get a similar rating this week. Kevin is effective when he plays in a compact style of defence like he did with Cottbus but he is really lacking when the defending style is more open and he is facing speedy forwards who can pass. It is a bit worrisome considering that many of our CONCACAF rivals play that exact style.

Don't know how long this video will stay on Youtube but here are the goals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjaNAEICuNE