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The NextGen Series 2011/12 Tournament thread
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Spursidol
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Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch - especially at St Helens, virtualy a home game for Liverpool - they were not technically impressive at the Lane relying more on their large lump style (other than Sterling)
Spursidol
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...and I would put Sporting Lisbon in the same category. That's the level we must aim to emulate as far as possible.
StartingPrice
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That's how I saw it, too.
It was a typical old-style English team - the type of thing more intelligent English teams are trying to move away from. Big, physical players, playing a physical game and having grown up concentrating on winning rather than learning good technique and then, at a latter stage, applying that to winning. Which was how I saw our lads - very impressed by the way they played very much like our full team at their best, in the way they moved the ball, etc. - adds credence to Tim Sherwood's job title, IMHO.
And the way the Scousers were going on about how their kids were much better than ours, based on being big, clogging lumps - it really cheers me up that they got humiliated by a proper youth team, playing the proper way - and what we are trying to emulate.
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I think we would have given them a much better test because we would have kept possession better and would have dealt with their possession play better (not really based on much, just a hunch). Liverpool did have a penalty at 1-0 that they missed so it could have been a different game.
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karma, we committed the heinous crime of playing underage players, ie the exact opposite of ringers. liverpool tried to kick their way through our team so its no surprise they resorted to this when they got embarrassed against ajax
hopefully we can give it another go next season, just feel sorry for the kids who put in a great backs against the wall performance against liverpool.
hopefully we can give it another go next season, just feel sorry for the kids who put in a great backs against the wall performance against liverpool.
Ajax had beaten Barca 3 - 0 at La Masia in the quarter finals so 6 - 0 against Liverpool in the semi's is a fair score considering the teams on display.
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Well Inter (who our boys gave an absolute schooling) won the tournament. Despite us getting knocked out on a technicality, you'd have to say the nextgen was a huge success for our boys and it certainly shows they are up there with the very best in Europe.
tobi
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All 16 NextGen teams have confirmed participation in next season's competition. Chelsea FC have signed up + 7 more teams to be announced!
Hopefully broadcasters will offer some coverage.
All 16 NextGen teams have confirmed participation in next season's competition. Chelsea FC have signed up + 7 more teams to be announced!
Hopefully broadcasters will offer some coverage.
They beat Ajax?
Spursidol
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On penalties after extra time.
http://www.nextgenseries.com/en/Fix...5-03-12/Ajax---Inter-Milan/Ajax---Inter-Milan
As InofMyLeft Shin said - Spurs scored the biggest number of goals in the tournament against Inter in their 7-1 win, so we must be doing something right to have thrashed the winners in the Group Stages. I'm looking forward to next season's competition.
(NB for any watching Liverpool fans, we thrashed Inter 7-1 who beat Ajax who had thrashed Liverpool 6-0....)
Inter were playing catenaccio and did it well, they also knew who to kick from our players namely Fischer and Klaassen but it resulted in one of their players getting send off.
Ajax simply bottled it because they had by far the most chances (a couple shots hit the woodwork) and possession, a goal at the very end being dissalowed didn't help either mind.
They did us very proud though, everyone who watched the game said Ajax deserved it more while Inter played anti football.
Ajax simply bottled it because they had by far the most chances (a couple shots hit the woodwork) and possession, a goal at the very end being dissalowed didn't help either mind.
They did us very proud though, everyone who watched the game said Ajax deserved it more while Inter played anti football.
not_tenth-again
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Deselina - how good is fischer? He's getting some good reviews.
Ended up as the tournaments topscorer alongside the much talked about Dongou from Barca (Dongou scored his 1st goal for the Barca reserves this weekend so everybody is raving about him now considering he won't be 17 until April).
Fischer and Klaassen will be very important for Ajax in the future, it's a shame that Bouy got poached by Juventus during the winter because they really were the holy trinity of that U19 side.
Fischer is probably more talented than Eriksen even because he's more prolific.
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Ajax probably had the best team and results don't matter too much at this stage. It's similar to the situation with Spurs in that our youth side was very impressive against many of Europe's top youth sides. We didn't even do it by being older, bigger or stronger by most accounts we were outsized physically by both Inter and Liverpool and still looked impressive.
not_tenth-again
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I feel a little sorry for Ajax, with FFP rules in place their youth academy will be plundered before their first team gets the benefit of seeing these players develop. That's the way I see it anyway.
Heard rumours ManU will bid for Eriksen and Fisher in a double deal in the summer - 16.5 for the two of them. I hope Ajax hold out a-la spurs and Modric... or sell to Spurs instead
Bouy got swayed by the infamous Dutch-Italian agent Raiola, who is also responsible for bringing Pogba from Man Utd to Juventus. Bouy reasoned that he should've had his debut already for Ajax 1st team, but that's just bogus really he went for the money and because there's a lot of talent coming through for his position. He felt some kind of entitlement so Ajax let him leave, Juve did compensate us for it though.
Look out for Mats Rits, Serero and Lodeiro next season, they will probably be ahead of the likes of Fischer in the picking order in the midfield department.
Both Eriksen and Fischer want to stay, only Barca can sway Eriksen away from Ajax according to him personally. They have already turned down United in the past.
