Albanian Football Forum

Kuqezijeti wrote:There's no excuse for De Biazi not playing attacking football. He's got the players for it, Hysaj. Mavraj. Ajeti. Djimsiti. Aliji. Xhaka. Abrashi. Kace. Memushaj. Rashica. Cekici. Avdijaj. Lenjani. Sadiku. Cikalleshi are all descent players.

If you play an open/attacking game with those players mentioned you will get annihilated. De Biasi is not stupid, he knows it.

Our defenders are only good when they have a lot of cover. If you leave them with space against the opponent they'll get killed. As soon as we opened up against France Payet alone raped us in the ass in a matter of seconds.

The goal should always be to leave as less space as possible for the opponent and try to exploit the space they leave with counter attacks: HEre's the problem, we don't have any good counter attacking players. De Biasi is playing fullbacks there because there is more value in a fullback who can help defensively and try to fluke his way into the attack than an average attacker like a Rashica, Hyka who are liabilities defensively and offensively it's not like they'll do much.

If we had a Shaqiri or Januzaj it would be a different story.

I think Kuqezijeti is taking the piss. He just basically listed the whole squad, and none of those players stand out.

As if someone can be stupid enough to mention Rashica and Hyka in the same type of category. Shows their football knowledge is pathetic.

^ Agreed. Hyka is much better.

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Don't sleep on Macedonia. That have an interesting team that could cause problems in Albania.

Their GKs and CBs seem like low quality. Their fullbacks are starters at Rijeka - Weak league but Rijeka itself is no joke of a team so they must be decent in quality.

Their central midfield seems poor and their best player there(Ademi) is suspended for doping.

Their attack could cause us problems. Pandev(Genoa) Trajkovski(Palermo) Ibraimi(Astana) Nestorovski(Palermo) Babunski(Red Star Belgrade). They could also call up Ferhan Hasani(Shkendija) who looks like a decent player. They have technical players there who are capable of counter attacking. I thought that nigga Pandev retired from the NT but apparently not.

It's funny how everyone forgets we were playing like underdogs throughout this entire campaign. Even Armenia had better odds than us at the beginning. This is going to be completely different. We haven't faced a team weaker than us since Cyprus in the World Cup qualis, and we couldn't even score a goal against them, even when qualification was already over.

These teams will expose DB's weakness. Up until now he's been hiding behind anti-football, but he can't play that anymore. People assume that since we did well against better teams, shittier teams will be easy, but forget we essentially have to change our entire style of play to something De Biasi sucks at.

For sure this will be different. Sitting back and breaking up opponent's play has been mostly a success in recent years but now building up play will be required. Macedonia, Israel and Lichtenstein will be happy with draws in Albania so they are coming to defend. Can you break them down?

I trust our defense and midfield(defensively) but Albania probably has the worst attackers in Europe(outside of pot 6 teams) and I'm not kidding.

If the likes of Kace. Rashica and Avdijaj start, I think we should beat the weaker teams easily, but if he puts a defensive side against the weaker teams than might as well just hand them the 3 points.