Jump on the Ivory Coast World Cup bandwagon!
Well the way Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) played against Argentina in their first world cup match, its hard not to want to see these guys through the Group of Death. They're a great team, making their world cup debut and they play hard and fast soccer. The first half Ivory Coast were dominating despite what the scores say they held back the Argentinian offence and broke through thir defences on more than several occasions. Côte d'Ivoire's only problem i see is their lack of decent strikers, Drogba is great but they should have got the ball out to him more than they did.
Kalou got a fair few opportunities and didnt use them to his advantage, and like i said should have passed the ball to Drogba on more than one occasion. Another of their problems which i noticed is that once they get to the striking zone they hesitated, holding the ball and it was like they were waiting for the defender to lunge out and get it off them when they could easily have gone for a shot. Happened several times, it could have resulted in an Ivorian win if they had gone for a couple more shots.
Didier Drogba is Côte d'Ivoire's key player
They've got a fair few players in the french league but the ones in the English premiership league like Drogba and i think Toure is in premiership league too and a couple others are the players that hold this team together.
Kolo Touré was wow, great defence, "daddy long legs" is my nick name for him, he's a beast, great defence and speed. Their goalkeeper Jean-Jacques Tizie should have kicked the ball down the field a couple more times rather than to the nearest defender, if they had more strikers it'd solve this problem becuase he would have someone to kick the ball out to. I think they should have one less midfielder and one more striker. Though their midfield is great the Ivorians get a lot of shots at goal and one more striker could help them get a couple more balls in the back of the net.
So yer, congratulations must be given to Côte d'Ivoire for a fantastic game of football (soccer) :p and to Argentina for pouncing on the occasions when the Ivorian defences weren't well held together. I think its save to say that placing a bet on Hernan Crespo to score the first Argentine goal would be a save one because he's quick and a safe striker of the ball and a Drogba first goal for the Ivorians is another safe bet.
Well have fun watching the World Cup people,
<3 Vazza
ps: The Socceroos are gonna beat Japan 2-1...and if they dont, blame it on Viduka :D