Korattt wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:43 pm
think there’s some value in the Faroe Islands v Malta goals market, both teams don’t know how to defend, personally I’ve backed 3-3, there’s been a couple of 3-2’s either way in this game & they haven’t played each other that many times..
Please take this as much as constructive critism as possible, given that the match had already started when I saw the post.
There's a number of things, I would have considered a long way before a couple of 3-2's from 6 and 19 years ago.
On the footballing side of things:
Yes, they're not great at defending. But both are not exactly in the habit of shipping big numbers against, when facing national teams from the lower part of spectre. The vast majority of their sample size for goals against is versus attackers considerably above the standard here. On that same note, just as they're not great defensively, they're not that spectacular on the ball either. Someone's gonna have to create and someone else stick it in the back of the net for all those goals.
On the mental side of things:
No matter what the national pride is like in Malta, I think it's fair to assume that for most of these guys, it matters, just as much as putting on the national team shirt, to have a chance of playing against Ronaldo, Mbappe and the like, plus to have the shot at a scout spotting you. They're not so much in it to have Jan Arne Halvfarson, who by day (or night) earns a living as bouncer at the local bar, chop you down kneehigh as you're springing free. There's no scouts here either, I'd say.
Unless the Malta FA springs for some expensive travel, then Malta to Faroe Islands isn't exactly an easy travel day. And when you arrive, you've gone from 20 something celcius to single digits. Then to the stadium, which is an open one on a windy rock of an island, with a plastic pitch no less. I'd say most of the Malta players are going through the motions with the bare minimum to keep their spot in the team and getting out of that place sharpish, rather than looking to play an open match chasing goal after goal.
I wasn't aware Scotland were playing San Marino, so much for the United Kingdom. Maybe, religion is like water & nationalism is like juice (either way, bollox is correct) certainly makes for a tasty conversation, the subject deserves it's own thread... if only people could get past 1 comment without being aggressive/passionate.
