Monday, June 9, 2014

Friendly vs Ghana 7pm ET on BeIn

Yay. On HDTV.

Hong Myung Bo will be looking for a far better performance in the dress rehearsal ahead of the World Cup. Of course he'd take a bad performance without injuries over a good one with.

Seeing Belgium struggle to crack 10 men Tunisia hopefully provides good perspective that these are just friendlies and that performances in them is less about outcome and more about getting minutes under the belt.

That said, the one thing really lacking last time was precision and hopefully we see more of that this evening. The ideas themselves were not all that bad but missing passes trying to execute them led to a complete lack of rhythm.

Defensive cohesion will be the other great challenge.  If there was really a glaring disappointment it was holes and miscommunication among the back four.

I suspect that the lineups will remain the same, but hopefully HMB tries some alternate combinations in the second half, with me particularly interested in seeing Ji get a few more minutes and a plan B if Koo or Park Chu Young struggle again.