JOURNAL 2/25/11

Journal 2/25/11:

1. Inter Milan vs. Bayern Munchen

2. Inter Milan:Stankovic Dejan

Bayern Munchen: Schweinsteiger

3. Inter Milan: 4-4-2

Bayern Munchen: 3-5-2

4. Around the 62 minute schweinsteiger dribble towards goal then shot right outside the 18… something I need to work on so it was nice to see an example of it.

5. Eto’o had great movement and dribbling up top, creating scoring opportunities, but no finishing any for Inter.

6. 1-0 Bayern Munchen

7. Philipp Lahm: he did really good attacking out of the back and was almost like an outside mid. He had a few individual chances to score himself.

8. 2011 Algarve Cup Venues Finalized (ussoccer.com)

The US has travel to Portugal for the Algarve Cup, which they have won 7 times. Their first game is March 2^nd. This is interesting to me because the US women’s team is in a big tournament playing against the other best women in the world. It will be interesting to see if the USA can remain on top or if there are better players and teams out there now.

Bonus 1:

UEFA Champions League Game: Chelsea vs. FC Kobenhavn (2/22/11)

Chelsea scored in the 17^th minute by Anekle #39. It was a good goal but was defended poor. Anekle had another chance in the 31^st minute but missed. The first half ended 1-0 Chelsea. The second half Anekle scored again almost the same way he scored the first goal. Chelsea ends up winning the 2-0.

Bonus 2:

UEFA Champions League Game: Manchester United vs. Marseille (2/23/11)

The possession was pretty even in the first half, but Marseille was in United’s half more. The first half was pretty boring. One thing I did notice was Man. U. moved up the field with possession section by section. This is what we have worked on some in practice lately. The first half of this game was a good example of what this looked like. On thing that could have made for a better example of section-by-section possession is if they would have scored after the build up or had a good finishing opportunity.