NBA - Italian Style

European players are still fighting to impose his basketball style in the NBA, and they have achieved it lately more than ever. This time is not German nor Spaniard, is Italian. Andrea Bargnani is Toronto Raptors leader scorer with 21.3 points per game and the 2nd best scorer among centers in the league only behind Dwight (superman) Howard.

NBA number 1 draft pick in 2006, 2nd place in rookie of the year award behind Brandon Roy, many said Andrea could not get it because a month sidelined by an appendectomy surgery. Known as "Il Mago", he won twice the rookie of the month award being the third Raptor achieving this with Vince Carter and Damon Stoudamire. 


After NBA star Chris Bosh decided to be part of the beach boys project along with D Wade and Lebron James, someone had to stepped up as the offensive leader of the Canadian franchise and it was no other than the Italian center, 2nd best scorer and blocker leader for the team last season.


This is a tough league for the Europeans, only few of them adapt well and a smallest portion succeed the way Dirk Nowitzky or Pau Gasol have done it. I must say I was not expecting much from the Italian at the beginning of the season, but he really has showed maturity and consistency and also has been a key factor in every Toronto win this season raising his average to 24.7 ppg when Raptors win the game. 


The 7 feet center has increased almost 50% his scoring capabilities this year compared with his career in the NBA and not only he is scoring more points but he is more effective averaging 3% more in his field goal percentage. This combination plus the fact he is the current go-to man for coach Jay Triano shows how high has the Italian elevated his game this season. We can even say the depart of Chris Bosh hasn't been noted so far because if we end the season today, Raptors are still out of the playoffs in 9th place in the Eastern Conference. 


As many of the European centers in the NBA, he is an all-around player being able to shoot from long distance or play strong in the post. He might be the decisive player to take Toronto back in the playoffs this season, of course with the contribution of many other key players like De Rozen or Weems. 



It comes to my attention how natural he deals with big moments of pressure. As an example I'm referring to the Raptors vs Knicks game on December 8th this year were The Italian scored career high 41 points in the Madison Square Garden including a 3point to tie the game with 28 seconds left in the game. Lets be honest, beside Michael Jordan and Reggie Miller, how many players do you remember making their career highs in NYC? This requires some character. 


Enjoy that game recap below. 

Beach Boys are not heating the Heat

It comes to my attention how "the beach boys" are not winning the games they supposed to.

Is understandable they need to find their roles in this new and excessively marketed Miami Heat, since all of them were scoring leaders in their previous teams. Big questions of the pre-season were who was going to step up offensively? and who was going to take Magic Johnson's role of drive the plays. After 15 games is Lebron who leads the team in minutes, points, assists and steals but so far it isn't working out very well having only 8 wins and 7 losses.

When you see a Heat game the 3 first quarters are ok, nice plays, dunks and fast breaks. But when the 4th quarter arrives, a lack of leadership is reflected in a really poor shot selection and is like each one of them is just isolated from the team. 

It is not a coincidence D Wade and King James are shooting 5% worst when compared with last year. Wade FG 09-10 was  47,6% and 10-11 is 43,8%, same with Lebron who was FG% 50,3% and this season is  45,5%. Dear Heat fans this is pure poor shot selection.

Although scoring responsibilities are well balanced having James with 23.6 ppg, Wade with 21.1 ppg and Bosh with 17.6. ppg it is certainly balanced between them but not for the team reflecting 62% of the offensive load in Miami. This is by no means healthy for a NBA final contender team. If we compare them with the first season together of the original big three in Boston, NBA champions of 2007, Pierce, Garnett and Allen were responsible of  55% in 2007 and by that time we talked of an unbalanced squad. The difference is that 07 Celtics' big three were having better shot selection reflected in 482 FG% while 2010 Heat's beach boys are shooting 469 FG%.

So Miami needs to start thinking about tweaking a little bit the offense in order to start winning more games, but this has to be from Spoelstra's head and his inexperience leading with superstars might be a big negative factor accomplish it. Only the time will show us the answer.

MLS cup final, what went wrong?

I understand people are dissapointed about the overall satisfaction of the MLS CUP Final, there are many things to blame but I feel people are counting too many.
 For those who missed the action, Colorado Rapids won in overtime 2-1 to FC Dallas with an own goal. 

Don Garber and the Rapids with the MLS CUP

It is unfair to blame the two teams for not playing a nice and entertaining game. I don't remember blaming FIFA and World Cup organization of 1990 for the boring and phisical game played between Germany and Argentina that ended 1-0 with a Penalty kick goal in regulation time. We have the same case between Milan and Juventus in UEFA Champions league 2003 final, both teams played a boring scoreless battle which led them to Penalty kicks. And we can name an endless of examples where teams was just too worried about losing the game that fogot to play football. But this is the sport's nature and true fans of the game should not worry about that.

Casey, player of the game, fought every battle.

Other topic is being used to blame the lack of success of MLS CUP final is the North American nature to believe in the playoffs as an exciting way to end a season. Evidently, mostly europeans are using this argument to criticize the lack of tradition of US Soccer whereas in Europe the ligue winner is the actual champion and on the other hand MLS league winner or  "Supporters Shield" is just a team that gets a place in the underrated Concacaf Champions League. 

Remember 2 of the most important events in world soccer have a playoff format, being the UEFA Champions League and the FIFA World Cup.
 
My opinion, I grew up in a european soccer environment where you can witness a team winning the league 6 weeks before the season ends (boring), but I am also a big fan of north american professional sports like NBA, NHL and MLB and it looks pretty normal to me when the leader of the regular season doesn't have what it takes to win a playoff series and doesn't reach the finals. I like playoff environment and postseason madness from the fan point of view and I see nothing wrong in having MLS CUP playoffs at the end of the season.

What I think really went wrong sunday night was raising the expectations of the event so high and think neutral fans in Toronto would fill the stands at 3 degrees Celsius on a late Sunday night. 

Veteran Pablo Mastroeni finally had his cup.

A low profile pro league like the MLS cannot expect having a decent TV rating when NFL Sunday Night Football is on the other channel. That being said, league has to adapt to its TV rating rivals and schedule the MLS CUP final accordingly. 

Regarding the host city, this is not the all star game or the super bowl as I said in my previous post, each team needs start feeling the finals as a home battle and 2 leg series is ideally the better way to enjoy this show.

MLS CUP final in Toronto - Lets give a great closure to this exciting season.

With a forecast of 4° C and a little rain on Sunday afternoon the BMO field has the greatest challenge in its short history, to gather a decent crowd for such an event.

I don't agree in planning the MLS CUP final in a different host venue like the NFL does with Super Bowl or the UEFA with the Champions League final.

The league is not ready yet to such situation, you need to gain more popularity, fans, expectations, etc. Even if the match would've it been LA Galaxy against NY Red Bulls it might have been a little different but I still think the competition needs more maturity in order to make the fans travel several thousands of kilometers to watch their team play the final with pre-winter weather. Not even in "Copa Libertadores" we have a single host venue, over there they play two-legged series to win the most prestigious club competition in Latin America.

I really like the fact the best soccer in the league is conquering a media quota, players like the MLS 2010 MVP Colombian David Ferreira or like Omar Cummings need to gain more recognizing and be more tied to the MLS image, since they are the players that are actually making this league a better one. On the other hand, designated players like Beckham, Henry and Ljungberg creates expectations, sell shirts, bring experience but not necessarily raise the level of the game.

I really invite all soccer fans, eurosnobs or not to enjoy the MLS CUP 2010 between Colorado Rapids and FC Dallas. These are the teams that generated the best soccer (and the Real Salt Lake of course) and the most exciting games throughout the season.

On the FC Dallas side, a player like Ferreira is all craft and guile, the authentic 10 of the MLS is always a pleasure to watch. Only Argentinian Javier Morales could show such control of the attacking design in the league. The Colombian, leader in game-winning assists, has very good company with Marvin Chavez and Brek Shea on the flanks looking very much like Seattle Sounders scheme. Also, the best goalie in 2010, Kevin Hartman has just demonstrated he can win games by himself like in the West finals game against LA Galaxy with an outstanding performance, so he is inspired a so the entire team.

The Rapids with the best attacking duo in MLS (Connor, Cummings) are a team you can really fear when close to the penalty area. Also, the captain and spiritual leader Pablo Mastroeni, who 12 years a go made his debut to play the midfield next to Carlos "El pibe" Valderrama in Miami Fusion, knows this is his great chance to win the MLS CUP specially when turning 35 years old.

Lets close this chapter in an appropriate fashion and prepare yourselves for the best soccer in North America.

Colorado Rapids in MLS CUP final

Attacking power was released last night by the Rapids and the best offensive duo in MLS, Conor Casey and Omar Cummings, did nothing but harm although one unlikely goal by right back Kimura (only japanese in MLS!) was enough to make the difference. Great night by Jon Busch and SJ's defense which always kept the hope on for the Quakes saving and stopping all attempts created by this full feared couple of forwards until minute 94.

Rapids midfield was able to stop Wondo from generating occasions and Johnson was a not as free as he found himself against the Red bulls. The MLS scoring leader, Chris Wondolowski, only had 1 shot on goal all night.

I liked the gest of Pablo Mastroeni when he received the "Eastern Conference Champions" cup and instead of raising it alone as the captain he went down to the floor and make it all team raise it. What a team player he is, I really like his attitude and leadership.

On the other hand, Don Garber has to change this format for next year urgently, either change the name of the title or the fixture format, but it is kind of odd watching a Western Conference team winning the Eastern Conference title. It just does not look right and might damage MLS image in the future.

At this stage of the playoffs I would like to see LA Galaxy's defense against this Rapids attacking duo, It's gonna be exciting, but we still missing tonight's game at 9:00 PM ET to decide the other team in the MLS CUP 2010.

Beckham inspired - Galaxy in the MLS west finals

Galaxy dominated the Sounders for 80 min and was enough, Donovan's team started the match with a great attitude in winning the home game from the beginning. This, undoubtedly, was the key of LA success last night.

The great defense continued, Gonzales was beaten only once and it was the Zakuani goal at the end of the game. Kovalenko destroyed all the game in front of him and David Beckham played one of his best games in MLS.

I remember newspapers writing all kind of comments about Beckham when he just signed in 2007, half of the opinions were negative stating David was not Ronaldinho and the spice boy won't draw the attention of the fans in the game itself only off the field.

Of course David's style is not to outplay by dribbling his opponents, it is more different than that. Tonight we could see what MLS was signing in 2007. An inspired man that can run the pitch the 90 minutes both in defense and offense (has anyone seen Ronaldinho doing that?) and just giving the right passes all game long. This is what we enjoyed specially in the 1st half with all the dangerous crosses that, with a better placed forward, could have ended in 4 or 5 goals in 25min and every cross he did created high emotions expressed in excitement screams and therefore a great ambiance.

We hope David continue as inspired as last night and watch a great match against Ferreira's team, FC Dallas.

And that is the story, without New York, Real Salt Lake and Columbus, the big favorite now in the playoffs is the LA Galaxy which raises big expectations to the MLS Cup in Toronto on Nov 21st.

Will LA keep defensive pace? Sounders vs Galaxy - 2nd Leg.

What an expectation for tonight's game! How about all the excitement we have seen in the other 3 playoffs games? Amazing how, in all cases, we had to wait until minute 90 plus aggregate (or penalty kicks) to have a little rest. Well, Seattle and Los Angeles should promise even more tonight at 9:00 PM ET.

I think Seattle plays the most exciting football lately, maybe because all the inspiration they have with 30,000 or more excited fans in every game at Qwest Field. They even showed it in the 1st leg game last week, but Galaxy played remarkable defense when it was all inspiration from Ricketts passing by Omar Gonzalez to Kovalenko. Even with this great defense Sounders tried all the way attempting offensive squares and making long passes to the speedy Nyassi and Zakuani and really showed it. That is why I think Seattle is going to keep trying tonight and the Galaxy had to show an outstanding defensive performance once again to stop them.

On the Galaxy side we saw David Beckham included in most of the plays but they were lacking of a guy that could strike it in the net although the highlight reel self created by Edson Buddle saved LA that night. Juninho needs to win the battle against Alonso in order to contribute to the offense and Donovan would have to show more in attack specially if Sounders manage to score early.

The Home Depot Center also will play an important role tonight, this famous player number 12 that every team needs might pace the great green offense down and be vital to push the Galaxy to the West Finals against Dallas.

NBA sold out crowd in Montreal

What an evening! I enjoyed it more than expected I must say. It was more that a 108-103 Raptors win.

The first impression, the crowd. Thousands of NBA fans all over the Bell Centre with all kinds of NBA apparel shirts and hats, not only Raptors fans but from all around the league. It was impressive how the Stoudemire shirt #1 was already popular when the star has been in Knicks a few months.

Once you are inside the arena the feeling is even better, more than 22.000 fans sheering at every play, every point. The first idea that comes to your mind is why Montreal does not have a NBA team? With a crowd that support with that energy two teams which most probably will not make it to the playoffs is certainly a good sign. But is very different support a team all season long, specially at the same time you support the Canadiens, than go and enjoy an exhibition game. We can see the same effect with soccer and the Montreal Impact which can't take more than 9,000 fans in a semifinals game (we hope that change when in MLS though).

The game was a fun one, even when Raptors seamed to win easily on the 3rd quarter the Knicks recovered the distance and put the game by 4 points with 2 min left. Being able to see an all star like Stoudemire score 24 points in 26 min was just amazing. Also the 11 (8 offensive) rebounds by Evans from the Raptors give a difference in Toronto attack. A 3 pointer with 0,1 sec left from Calderon in the 3rd quarter was also one of the highlights of the night.

At the end we hope that next year we can have more preseason games to continue enjoying the show that the NBA is.

The season is over for the Impact of Montreal. Thanks to the referee?

It's been a wild disappointing Sunday night in the NASL with 2 dramatic finishes in the 2nd leg of the semifinals.

The good news is that Vancouver lost! Come on!, don't say you are not a bit happy because our only Canada rival in NASL just did not make it either. Also, I think they hate us more than we do, specially for the Nutrilite cup 1-6 against Toronto.

The bad news, we lost the chance to go to the finals for a 2nd year in a row. I must say we only play good football the first half in Montreal. Since then, 2nd Half in Montreal Carolina could have won and they even score a legitimate goal that referee called back because it was offside (yes, we have to remember that), and the entire 90min in Cary, NC were mostly dominated by the Railhawks, at least the the ball movement towards the attack. Carolina played good football and never gave up, that is true.

Even though we know we were not deserving qualify to the finals, being eliminated in the 89min by an offside goal hurts deep in the heart. But it can kill you the fact that Montreal scored an "on side" goal in the 92min to pass to the finals and it was called back. Certainly this is like a horror movie, the same movie we saw in the 2nd leg of the Concacaf Champions League Quarterfinals against Santos Laguna, where we were up by 2 goals with 5min left and the Mexican team scored 2 goals to eliminate us.

We can judge ourselves the plays in the following link:

http://le12ejoueur.ca/2010/10/video-limpact-elimine-decisions-douteuses-de-larbitre/

The season is over and we still have one more year in the NASL before take the expected journey to the MLS. I hope we can have some work to expand the number of seats in Saputo stadium and start testing our attendance to the stadium before jumping to the big league. I recall several sold-out games this season, meaning we might be able to seat more than 13,200 fans if we complete the new terraces.

The Impact on semis

One thing that really annoys me of the NASL is the TV coverage. You have to struggle to see a low definition video through the internet in order to watch the match live. I'm really looking forward MLS era to arrive in Montreal, from their webpage you have the support of a wealthy and very well organized league that allows you to go mlssoccer.com/videos and watch the highlights in HD and really enjoy the competition. For personal reasons I could not see the Impact game saturday night and I have no comments on the away match.

There is a big difference in the current Montreal Impact vs the one saw on May 2010 and there you realize that players can change the team's attitude, we should not put all that weight only on Dos Santos. I know President Saputo is also taking credit in this change since he addressed to all team personally asking for changes. In my opinion, the faces that gave all the change needed are Ribeiro and Gerba. Of course, there are players that were doing it all right since the beginning like Billy (don't count his first 3 games), Donatelli, Pizzolitto and Jordan but a team should be inspired as a team all that was achieved since then. It is amazing how easy can Gerba score in small spaces and the energy Ribeiro put in every play.

In first quarterfinals game played in Montreal we saw a team that can create spaces with 2 or 3 touches, it was a well packed midfield but I should say Di Lorenzo has lost his capacity of outplay the opponents, we haven't seen that this season. He's been so passive that I don't even think he is one of the key players in the Impact. He was only trying to make crosses, but could not get one done right. We hope see something more promising in the semifinals.

If want to take advantage of Phillie Billy's talent, we need to use him on the right flank. He plays well the left, but we get way much better results when he plays on the right, I suggest switch him with Braz.

I must say, even when David Testo is playing at 70%, he always make a difference in the defensive midfield and I must admit we are fragile if there is not a similar player on the field, for example Simon Gatti. I just hope Donatelli and Ribeiro can offer the solid game supporting defensemen like Testo does.

Eduardo Sebrango had an outstanding performance in Montreal that night. I'm still thrilled how a 37 year old can perform like he did, too bad he could not get his goal.

To finish, Le Gall. What a skilled player, he plays with a lot of confidence. I hope he just feel he can be one of the stars of Montreal Impact like Billy did, that day he will delight the entire Saputo Stadium.

The Montreal Impact plays tonight NASL semifinals against the Carolina Railhawks and we all hope we stay focused on defense, specially on the midfield in order to protect our own net the way we did versus the Aztec.

The MLS playoffs are around the corner

Thrilling run for MLS payoffs.

DC United, Revolution and Houston are out, and if the Dynamo wouldn't be mathematically dead for sure is emotionally dead after Dero's goal in minute 92 last week and this week Wizard's amazing comeback.

We also watched the match of the week (live in ESPN2 and in GoalTV here in Canada) Galaxy vs RedBulls. What an ambiance! I personally loved all the expectation created around this game, especially in Twitter! Thats when you see the involvement of the fans. I love it.

Lets get into the game. No Henry, sad part. But, on the other side, Beckham not only started the game but he also played the 90min! Let me tell you, this guy is a warrior and if his team is loosing the closer we are to the final whistle the more intense he plays. Although too bad his skills repertoire isn't as wide as expected, we appreciate what he does in the pitch.

I still remember the important role Beckham played in 2007 La Liga title for Real Madrid, Fabio Capello could not believe the guy he discarted at beginning of the season (which led to Beckham desires to go int the MLS) was the key player at the end.

LA vs NY classic was not played with much wisdom although NYRB showed they know how to run the flanks with Lindpere and Richards, which indeed caused all the harm. I confess I was expecting more long precise passes from Rafa Marquez but the player that always makes damage is Dane Richards. I know many people don't like him, but he always plays well when I watch a Red Bull game. Other positive performance was the one made by Ballouchy but I still don't know what makes me happier whether his performance or the fact that Kandji is not anymore playing with the team.

On the Galaxy side, I like what Jouninho does for the team, but its not enough. Donovan was absent and we only saw him in the last minute when trying another all courageous play which he is getting used to. Bowen had more than 6 opportunities at the end but the guy could not handle the pressure, same to Edson Buddle. Galaxy was too disorganized to deserve a good result that night.

The rest of the league, Dallas FC showed that Hartman is not that important but... what-a-pass!! for Ferreira for the 3rd goal against the Wizards. No wonder he is MLS assist leader, he deserves the number "10" in the shirt 100%.

I must confess I didn't like De Rosario's celebration after scoring a top class goal (amazing one BTW). Seriously, don't mix the show with your bank account! Come on DeRo! I don't care if you're good, you deal your contact after the game. Anyway that was a hard one for Toronto FC, they must admit their defense loose their focus often and MLS is not a league that now forgives that kind of distractions. In the attack, I never agreed with leaving Mista in the bench, especially for O'Bryen White! (my feelings about this player are the same I have about Kandji, go to NASL!!) but how can you miss that header? A player that was pichichi in 2004 in La Liga can't miss that... TFC fans must be furious.

Finishing, is Conor Casey the most effective player in the league? I think he is... Bravo Conor! He scores 46% of his shots on goal, While Buddle only 37%.

see you next week!

First five games in WC2010

Its time to start recognizing who is who is this world cup 2010. Normally in a fast tournament like this you can't predict much of the results, football stars are tired after a long season playing 2 games per week and performance with national team never is the same that with his club.

So far Mexico has been the team that has impressed me for its offensive organization and options against South Africa and on the other hand Greece for its low performance against Korea.

In terms of tactic midfield and organization England and USA showed us a good example of how that has to be done, very different of what we saw in Argentina's proposal today overexposing the undeniable dependence in Leo Messi to play football.

The best individual performances players I think should be between Diaby from France which remind us to best Patrick Vieira we have seen. In offensive skills only Dos Santos from Mexico and Messi from Argentina have been at top in destabilize defensive order in World Cup. Also Johnson from England has showed great options on the right line coming from the back.

We hope offensive order can beat defensive strategies and see a better World Cup.

Unexpected defeat at home against Carolina.

We all know Montreal had plenty of choices in roster for the midfield and that gives Dos Santos options to play several schemes. But we learned today the Impact does not have many options in defense. On one hand we saw a new experiment using Fillip Billy as a left back with a very good performance which made him deserve the Impact Setanta player of the game. On the other hand, we saw Joqueviel lost many times as a center back and we paid a high price in first half, the Carolina Goal.

I understand Dos Santos still needs to know which options does he have in defense but changing Pizzolitto and leaving Joqueviel just when a 3 men defense scheme was taking place in the last 15min did cost the 2nd goal in 90th minute.

The Impact had the ball all game long trying to find the hole in the Railhawks defense but center back Matt Bobo played a remarkable game denying all Montreal’s attempts either by air or ground.

Felipe Soares was very active in the midfield on the Impact side, but neither him, Di Lorenzo or Donatelli was dangerous enough find a space in Carolina’s defense. When deRoux entered in the game on 2^nd half the Impact started getting deeper in attack on the left side delivering good center passes finding Donatelli’s head in 2 times and Testo once who showed us a half “chilena” that went very close on the side of Hawks’ net.

I hope Impact continue using Fillip Billy as right back since he can really offer deepness in the attack showing his cross and center passes with a Beckham kind of style. My suggestion is to start using Adam Braz as a Center back where he can develop his intensity on defense and rotate him with Aaboubou and Pizzolitto. This way deRoux can still play and exploding his abilities next to Di Lorenzo in the left side.

Now Impact will have to focus in Friendly match against AC Milan where all of us will be there to show we are a city that loves high quality soccer.

See you on Wednesday at the Big O.

Impact is out of the Champions League again... But still playing AC Milan next wednesday

I think TFC has earned his pass to Concacaf Champions League again by merits. Remember Toronto is playing a higher level soccer league than Montreal and Vancouver are therefore somehow TFC managed to put more players in Canada national team.

I expect, in the upcoming years, we all have the same amount of roster investments and be more competitive against the reds.

Even though Montreal Impact is out of CONCACAF champions league, we are still playing UEFA Champions league level team AC Milan next week. I'll be there next week and will gather my comments for you afterwards.

But before that, don't forget Impact has a match this Sunday, May 30th against a direct NASL conference team the Carolina RailHawks where we have to dominate and jump as Conference leaders over Vancouver Whitecaps.

à la prochain

Impact draws in BC and gets a valuable point on the road last week

Line-up for the impact had some light changes, and one of them was leave Billy in the bench and use Donatelli from the beginning.

With a dynamic 1st time Whitecaps started with an offensive spirit led by Haber and Toure while the Impact showed a midfield engaged in defense.

The first clear occasion was a tricky header by Placentino from a center pass by Soares. In minute XX' came the play of the game where Donatelli in a heavily disputed midfield receives the ball and, Maradona like, stumbling and almost no looking give a quick release pass to an empty spot where Byers reached it in the area and beat Nolly to score a 5 stars goal. It was a great moment for Montreal in the game.

The Whitecaps brought danger in the feet of Marcus Haber with the most clear opportunity with a header but before finish the first half, Montreal had another chance thanks to Felipe Soares that was inches away of the net.

In the second half Ansu Toure brought chances for Vancouver thanks to his stamina and determination in long run that missed the target by little. Montreal still had more chances in a center pass ball headed by the captain Pizzolito which was stopped by Caps goalie.

Montreal was dominating the game and resisting Caps attack before Adam Braz ruined it with a immature defensive reaction in the area which caused the penalty, taken by Haber, that tied the game 1-1.

Montreal has to behave more professional if they want to achieve big things in the future ahead, especially in the MLS.

First win for the Impact at home.

With a contingence roster due to NCC game on May 6th, The Impact achieves the victory against a Puerto Rico in Saputo Stadium this afternoon.

Felipe Soares’s sharp shot gave the only goal after an opportunity created by Di Lorenzo, Byers and Placentino which was stopped by Islanders goalie. This attack left the ball in the area with Puerto Rican defense disorganized and the Portuguese did not miss it.

The match changed rhythm in the 60th minute when normal starters like Testo, Di Lorenzo and Braz changed the pace and increased offensive opportunities.

The tournament still young, and also understand focus is been made in the NCC this 2 weeks.